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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 →

How to make bicycles even greener: use bamboo frames! Jeremy Korzeniewski

It may surprise some people that there are so many uses for bamboo. Many structural devices can be made from the material. Including bicycles. Yes, that's right! Not only is bamboo sufficiently ...

Flavio Deslandes - Building greener bicycles using bamboo 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

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, ...

How to make bicycles even greener: use bamboo frames! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It may surprise some people that there are so many uses for bamboo. Many structural devices can be made from the material. Including bicycles. Yes, that's right! Not only is bamboo sufficiently stiff, it also is quite light, making it a great material for the construction of bike frames. The stalks ...


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