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Swoop Patagonia: Why Kate Rawles Cycled Across Patagonia on a Bamboo Bike

In August 2024, the Patagonia adventure-travel blog Swoop Patagonia ran a first-person piece by writer and cyclist Kate Rawles, "Why I cycled across Patagonia...

Total Women's Cycling: Kate Rawles on Solo Cycling Through South America on a Bamboo Bike

Total Women’s Cycling 6 July 2018  |  Feature Interview  |  Kate Rawles “The bike was unexpectedly brilliant. That was the first time I’d ever...

Treehugger: build your own bike at the Bamboo Bicycle Club

Treehugger features the Bamboo Bicycle Club workshop where Dr Kate Rawles built Woody, the bamboo bike that completed a 6,000-mile journey from Costa Rica...

Woody comes home: the Eden Project bamboo bike that rode 8,288 miles down the Andes

In 2016, environmental writer and cyclist Dr Kate Rawles built a bamboo bicycle frame on a Bamboo Bicycle Club course in London. The canes...

University of Cumbria: 8,000 Miles on a Bike Made of British Bamboo

University of Cumbria News 27 February 2018  |  Academic press release “Woody has proved to be an extremely tough and reliable bike, coping with...

Love Her Wild interviewed Kate Rawles about her bamboo bike expedition

Love Her Wild interviews Dr Kate Rawles about building Woody, her bamboo bike at Bamboo Bicycle Club, for a 5,000+ mile journey from Colombia...

Outdoor Philosophy: why Kate Rawles built a bamboo bicycle

This story first appeared on Outdoor Philosophy — the writing platform of environmental writer, cyclist and former philosophy lecturer Kate Rawles. It's reproduced here...

BikeRadar: Riding 5,000 Miles on a Bamboo Bicycle — Kate Rawles Before The Life Cycle

BikeRadar 3 November 2016  |  Routes & Rides  |  Features Published before Kate Rawles’ departure for the Life Cycle expedition “It’s a really, really...

The Guardian: Kate Rawles gears up for a 6,000-mile bamboo bike ride

In November 2016, The Guardian's Steven Morris reported on an environmental writer who was about to set off the length of South America —...