Bamboo Bike Project

Make Blog highlights the Bamboo Bike Project:

Despite the critical need for bicycle transportation in Africa, there are no bike-building businesses. All bicycles are instead imported, and these relatively few imported bicycles are designed for well-paved roads, inappropriate for rural transportation in these regions. The Bamboo Bike Project is filling that gap. Who would've thought, a bicycle made mostly out of bamboo?! But this plant's stalk is surprisingly very strong and shock-absorbent. Bicycles built with bamboo frames will allow Africans to use only a few pieces of imported parts, building the rest out of local and native bamboo...[continue reading]

via Third World Tech
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