Metro: Wood wars — could bamboo branch out and revolutionise construction?
Metro newspaper explores the bamboo revolution and features Bamboo Bicycle Club alongside expert analysis from MIT professor on why bamboo is the material of the future.
In its early years, Bamboo Bicycle Club was featured in Metro, the UK's largest free daily commuter newspaper, as part of a wider look at bamboo as a building and manufacturing material — under the banner question "Wood wars: could bamboo branch out and revolutionise construction?"
The feature placed our East London workshop alongside a broader story about bamboo's appeal as a fast-growing, renewable material: it regrows in a few years rather than the decades hardwoods need, and it locks up carbon as it grows. We were cited as a working example of what people can make with it by hand — anyone can come to a Bamboo Bicycle Club workshop and build their own bespoke bamboo bike frame, no prior experience needed.
Being featured in a free commuter paper mattered for reach: it put bamboo bikes in front of people who weren't already looking for them — the kind of passive discovery that turns a niche idea into a familiar one.
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