Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog -- part pit bull and part Labrador retriever -- was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee’s bicycle shop outside Santa ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER — With his gloved hands wrapping epoxy-soaked carbon-fiber ribbon around the chainstays of his bamboo bike frame, Dustin Sysko is relishing each ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2010— -- When many American kids wake up this Christmas morning, they'll hope to find a new bicycle next to the tree. But what about a bicycle made out of a tree? For some ...

The Bamboo Bike Studio is run by three men in their late 20s who know a lot about bamboo and a lot about bicycles. On a cool autumn morning, two of them are out on a bamboo harvest — in a dense grove ...

From flooring, to clothing, to jewelry, bamboo is being used in the manufacture of a large number of products. The speed at which it grows, the increasing consumer interest in environmentally friendly ...

Following a solo expedition around Asia on a self-built bamboo bicycle, Sunny Chuah was inspired to create a range of bamboo bikes suitable for mass-production. Thus the company Bamboo bee was born, ...

Bicycles built with bamboo frames are inexpensive to make, strong, and durable. Here's how they're made, and how a team of engineers and bike enthusiasts hopes to make bamboo bike building a thriving, ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ” Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog ” part pit bull and part Labrador retriever ” was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee’s bicycle ...

Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two-wheelers ...

Back when we visited the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in 2015, Lance Rake showed us an e-bike he made from a blend of woven bamboo, carbon fiber and balsa wood. At this year's show, he was ...

Designs made from environmentally friendly materials—and products that tell a socially responsible story—are often graded on a curve. It's why we use ugly, reusable, hemp shopping bags and eat off of ...

Bamboo is one of the world’s fastest-growing plants, adding as much as three feet in a single day. That growth rate, along with the giant grass’ sturdy hollow stalks (with a strength-to-weight ratio ...