Transportation
Build Your Own Bamboo Bicycle
The eco-friendly, trendy cycle designs are far cheaper when assembled at home.
There is, unfortunately, a price we pay in order to move around mother earth in a sustainable fashion. The trendy bamboo bicycle for example, an eco-friendly mode of transit built from a relatively sustainable natural resource, draws prices in the thousands of dollars. But a DIY bamboo-bicycle movement is growing, and could make these green machines far more affordable (and prevalent) across the globe.
Bamboo Bicycles Beijing is representative of where the industry is likely heading. It's not simply a bicycle shop. Nor is it entirely a makers' space. Profiled recently by the International Business Times, cyclists show up to the Beijing shop and, over two days, build their very own bicycle out of raw bamboo.