A bamboo road bike built for everything in between
A community build
A member of the Bamboo Bicycle Club community finished their frame as an all-purpose road bike — road geometry, but with enough clearance for 35mm gravel tyres. Photographed out on a forest path, it is the kind of bike that handles a road commute and a weekend on rougher ground equally well.
What they did
The frame is built from heat-treated Moso bamboo tubes, joined with hand-wrapped carbon-fibre tow and epoxy. It is finished as a versatile road build with all-purpose geometry and room for wider, 35mm gravel tyres — too rough-ready for a pure road tyre, comfortable on surfaces a road bike would rather avoid.
The result
A complete, ride-ready bamboo road bike with all-purpose geometry and 35mm gravel-tyre clearance. Bamboo's natural vibration damping makes it a comfortable frame over longer, mixed-surface rides.
Why it matters
Most bikes ask you to choose: fast on the road, or capable off it. A bamboo frame with all-purpose geometry sits in between — and it is built by hand, from a fast-growing natural material, in your own workshop or at one of ours. Today's BBC kits join the bamboo with flax fibre and epoxy, or with aluminium lugs, so a build like this is well within reach for a first-time builder.
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