Bamboo Bike STEM Lesson for Schools (KS3–KS4)
Looking for a hands-on STEM lesson that students actually remember? With Bamboo Bicycle Club, your class designs, builds and finishes a real bamboo bicycle frame — genuine engineering, not a worksheet.
What students build
Working from a reusable class kit, students mitre and join bamboo tubes, wrap carbon-fibre lugs, finish to a tolerance and test a real, rideable frame. It pulls together design, physics (forces, structures, strength-to-weight), maths (measurement and fair-test data) and sustainability — bamboo is 56.7% lower carbon than aluminium.
Why teachers choose it
- Reusable kit economics — buy the class kit once (£595), then re-run it every year for the cost of the bamboo refills. Across three years that’s a few pounds of kit per pupil.
- Curriculum-mapped — drops into D&T and supports Gatsby Benchmark 4 when embedded in your careers plan.
- Optional OCN accreditation — a recognised credential for the cohorts that need it (alternative provision, SEND, FE).
- A social enterprise — we’re a CIC; the schools work helps fund our prison-rehabilitation programmes.
Start free
The easiest way in is the free bamboo speaker taster — see the model work with a real class before you commit to anything. See the full schools programme →