The Bamboo Bike Studio is a Brooklyn-based venture which teaches people to create their own bike frame out of the renewable and “performance-positive” material, bamboo. Working in collaboration with the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Millennium Cities Initiative, the studio offers a two-day course where bike enthusiasts can learn building techniques and when the weekend is over, ride away on the finished product.
The BBS customises each bike to it’s rider, and attendees of the course can work off two bike body styles - ‘Local‘ for the casual, ‘mellow’ rider; and ‘Express’ – suitable for intermediate, urban cyclists who take extended rides.
All profits from the class go towards BBS’ aims to build bamboo bike factories in Kumasi, Ghana, Kisumu, Kenya, and Quito, Ecuador. The studio hopes to improve the developing cities’ access to transportation and develop sustainable light-industry; believing “reliable and cheap bicycle transportation can dramatically improve access to jobs, commerce, education, basic food and water resources, and health care.”
[via Lost At E Minor]
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