Fast Company: This Custom $200 Bike Frame Could Be 3-D Printed In Your Living Room
In March 2016, Fast Company ran a feature on a Bamboo Bicycle Club prototype under the headline "This Custom $200 Bike Frame Could Be 3-D Printed In Your Living Room."
The idea was simple and radical: 3D-print the connecting lugs that hold the frame together, then join them with bamboo tubes — so anyone with a 3D printer and some bamboo could build a custom frame at home, without welding and without specialist tooling.
On cost, our founder James Marr told Fast Company:
"You could probably do the whole thing for $200, maybe $150."
We showed the approach in public at the Design Museum in London, where our work featured in the Cycle Revolution exhibition (18 Nov 2015 – 5 Jun 2016, 70,000+ visitors) and where we ran a live build using 3D-printed lugs in April 2016.
Today that same open, build-it-yourself spirit underpins everything we do: 4,000+ people trained across 36+ countries.