Becca's bamboo 29er for the Limitless Eco Adventure
Becca came into the workshop and built a 29er bamboo touring bike for the Limitless Eco Adventure project — a build made for long days and loaded panniers, not for the commute home.
The build
It's a 29er frame set up for touring: bigger wheels to roll over rough ground, and front and rear racks so the bike can carry everything a self-supported trip needs. Becca built the frame herself in the BBC workshop. She's a repeat builder, too — she later put together a flat-bar bamboo commuter that takes up to a 50mm tyre.
Limitless Eco Adventure
Limitless is a real low-impact travel project: get there without fossil fuels, leave nature better than you found it, and bring someone new along. Team Limitless built a set of bamboo 29ers with us and rode them across the Pyrenees — bamboo frames carrying real loads over real mountains.
Why it matters
A bamboo frame isn't a novelty here. It's a working touring bike that someone made with their own hands and then took into the hills. That's the point of what we do: the person builds the bike, then the bike goes and does the miles.
Links
- Limitless project: https://limitless.eco/adventure/
- Related: Team Limitless crossing the Pyrenees — /blogs/club-news/team-limitless-crossing-the-pyrenees-team-limitless-built-some-29er-touring-bikes-with-is-over-the
- Related: Adventure on Bamboo 29er's — /blogs/club-news/limitless-worldwide-adventure