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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...

Kevin McCloud named us one of his Green Heroes

In 2018, Bamboo Bicycle Club was chosen as one of Kevin McCloud's Green Heroes at Grand Designs Live — the showcase of sustainable design...

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...

road.cc filmed Dave building a bamboo bike — the build video series

Back in 2018, the cycling site road.cc put one of our kits to the test the honest way: they had their own Dave Atkinson...

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...

The Monopolitan: Crea tu propia Bicicleta de Bambú — Spanish-Language Feature

The Monopolitan: Crea tu propia Bicicleta de Bambú — Spanish-Language Feature ============================================================================ The Monopolitan — Spain — June 2017 In June 2017, the Spanish-language...

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...

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...