It wasn't that long ago that bamboo-framed bikes were thought of as a weird rarity. Thanks to its combination of durability, stiffness and vibration-damping characteristics, however, the material has ...

Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two-wheelers ...

Noordin Kasoma is the founder of Boogali Bikes Uganda Limited which makes bicycle frames from bamboo. Esther Oluka caught up with him. On a rainy Sunday morning, I find Noordin Kasoma busy working at ...

Just don't let a panda borrow your bike: Boo Bicycles' CX, a lightweight racing bicycle, sells for $7,624. Bamboo-framed bicycles like these can be purchased at bike shops like Renovo Design in ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Bike maker Craig Calfee has found a way to grow bicycle frames in a field, with sunlight and water. He makes them out of bamboo. "It's like bonsai basically," said Calfee, who is ...

Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two-wheelers ...

Get a frame you like, trace its geometry on to a wooden board, and secure it with a jig to hold the parts you want to keep. Saw off the bottom bracket sleeve, headset tube, seat-post tube and dropouts ...

Though bamboo craft is commonplace in Tan Jiang-yong's home county, none took the 28-year-old seriously when he returned home from university and began making bicycles out of the plant. He was ...

The electric cargo bike is already among the greenest vehicles out there, capable of replacing car rides and even van deliveries in a compact, clean and city-friendly package. German bicycle company ...

Valid Cycles specializes in handcrafted bamboo bicycle frames. To be bike-ready, the bamboo must be cooked in an oven, stripped, and sealed. But after that, the founders of Valid Cycles say the bikes ...

Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog -- part pit bull and part Labrador retriever -- was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee’s bicycle shop outside Santa ...