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I've been thinking about bikes made from alternate materials since reading last month on NPR about the Bamboo Bike Studio in New Jersey, where you can build your own bamboo bike (with lots of help from shop employees) over the course of a weekend. A few days later I came across a story about Craig Calfee, who imports bike frames made in Ghana from bamboo grown locally—by a man there he trained two years ago to make the frames—and sells them at his Santa Cruz shop. Bamboo is especially interesting as a bike building material because it's readily available, renewable, and cheap (though the bikes made from it seem to average around $1,000, which isn't exactly pocket change). I'm not sure how practical bamboo bikes are, but they're easy on the eyes, especially Calfee's design.
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