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BBC News: Kate Strong rides 3,000 miles around Britain on a bamboo bike2023
5 Jun 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

BBC News: Kate Strong rides 3,000 miles around Britain on a bamboo bike

BBC News 5 June 2023  |  London & South East “It’s been three years in the making. I’ve never cycled more than five days...

My perilous 8,000-mile solo bike ride across South America
3 Jun 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

My perilous 8,000-mile solo bike ride across South America

What motivates a cyclist to spend 13 months riding a homemade bamboo bike from Colombia to Cape Horn? Kate Rawles relives her once-in-a-lifetime adventure

What corporate teams actually build with us
7 Apr 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

What corporate teams actually build with us

We built 10 frames with 50 people in 4 hours with GM motors Zurich

Bamboo Bicycle Club at Kew Gardens
7 Apr 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

Bamboo Bicycle Club at Kew Gardens

We'll be setting up a mini workshop at Kew Gardens this year for there summer cycle on the 27th of July

Leandre Crossing the Sahara
7 Apr 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

Leandre Crossing the Sahara

Leandre built a bike with us at our workshop in 2019. It's a 29er+ with a Rohloff hub. He travelled directly from London through...

We Sent Our Bamboo to a University Lab — Here's What the Numbers Said
23 Feb 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

We Sent Our Bamboo to a University Lab — Here's What the Numbers Said

People often ask the same question before they build with bamboo: will it actually hold up? So we did the obvious thing — we...

Bamboo Gravel Bike Build Kit — Designboom, January 2023, photography by Adam Gasson2023
26 Jan 2023 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

Designboom: Build your own sustainable commute

On 26 January 2023, design magazine Designboom featured the Bamboo Bicycle Club's Bamboo Gravel Bike Build Kit — the kit that lets you build...

Eric's Bamboo Bike build
10 Aug 2022 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

Eric's Bamboo Bike build

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Bamboo Bicycle Club at Caxton Works, Canning Town — Wharf Life, August 20222022
3 Aug 2022 · Bamboo Bicycle Club

Wharf Life: How Bamboo Bicycle Club Helps Its Customers Build Their Own Rides

Wharf Life 3 August 2022  |  By Jon Massey  |  East London & Docklands “Visitors to the Canning Town workshop can see all sorts...