Workshop Wednesdays: Live Engineering Education on YouTube
Digital

Workshop Wednesdays: Live Engineering Education on YouTube

Digital Education Series | YouTube | 2021During 2021, Bamboo Bicycle Club ran a live weekly education series on YouTube called Workshop Wednesdays — structured engineering broadcasts covering the technical foundations of bamboo bicycle build...

12 June 2026 · 1 min read·By Bamboo Bicycle Club

During 2021, Bamboo Bicycle Club ran a live weekly education series on YouTube called Workshop Wednesdays — structured engineering broadcasts covering the technical foundations of bamboo bicycle building.

The series addressed topics that confuse beginners: headset standards, dropout design, metal insert engineering, and frame finishing. Each episode was broadcast live, with viewers invited to watch with a beer and ask questions in real time.

Workshop Wednesdays reflected a shift in BBC's content strategy: moving from social posts to genuinely educational digital content that adds long-term value. The archived episodes remain freely available and continue to be discovered by new builders worldwide.

A builder in New Zealand, Japan, or Germany can learn to fit a tapered headset by watching a Hackney founder explain it in real time. BBC's knowledge has always been global — Workshop Wednesdays made that explicit.

Key Facts

  • Format: Live YouTube education series
  • Year: 2021
  • Topics: Headsets, dropouts, metal inserts, frame finishing
  • Access: Free, archived

"Join us live to learn how to fit a tapered headset to your bike. 🍻"

— Bamboo Bicycle Club, Workshop Wednesdays, 2021

For schools & colleges

Bring it to your school

Hands-on STEM your students can build — mapped to the curriculum. Start with a free speaker session.

Bring it to your school →