Build your own bamboo bike: the press has joined in too
Over the years a steady stream of journalists has done the same thing thousands of our makers have done: spent a weekend at the bench in our East London workshop, near the Olympic Stadium in Hackney Wick, and ridden home on a bamboo frame they built with their own hands.
We've kept this page honest. An earlier version of it credited a first-person feature to a specific national newspaper, complete with quotes, a byline, a photographer and a date. We weren't able to verify that any such article was ever published, so we've removed those claims rather than leave unverified press on our site. If we can later confirm the original piece, we'll restore it here with a proper link.
What we can point you to is the genuine, verifiable coverage of the build-it-yourself bamboo workshop — written by reporters who actually came down, picked up a file and a saw, and built a bike:
- The Guardian — "Hands-down one of the best things I have ever done"
- The Independent — Build your own bike with the Bamboo Bicycle Club
- Evening Standard — Get on your bamboo bicycle — after you've made it yourself
- Time Out London — our bamboo bike workshop, picked as a thing to do in London
- Treehugger — Build Your Own Bike at the Bamboo Bicycle Club
The thread running through all of them is the same: a small group, two days at the bench with our frame builders, and a frame strong enough to ride home — and to keep getting stopped about at the traffic lights.
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Want to join in yourself? See our workshops, or start with a home-build kit.