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Flavio Deslandes - Building greener bicycles using bamboo

Bamboo is an excellent building material. As the fastest growing plant in the world, the long, thin, lightweight stalks of bamboo are useful for a variety of applications, apparently including bicycle frames. Flavio Costa Leão Deslandes, a Brazilian Industrial Designer based in Denmark, started making bicycles out of bamboo back in 1995 and received a European EN14764 certification for his bamboo-framed bikes in 2008. Says the designer: Bamboo is nature's own organic tube structure. I have always believed that this fine material has ... Read more →

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