RSS: Bamboo Bike Studio BlogCheck out this recent story on the Bamboo Bike Studio from Planet Green. A Great look at the student experience of building a bike at the Studio.
Great article on the BBS from Planet Green
Our mission is twofold: provide every cyclist the experience of building his or her dream bike from scratch, while advancing sustainable entrepreneurship and development through financing bamboo bike factories in Africa and South America.
One weekend is all it takes to fabricate a frame from bamboo— a renewable and performance-positive material growing right in our backyard— assemble the components, and roll away with a custom-fitted ride, tuned to your body and cycling style. And the cost of the class directly supports the Bamboo Bike Studio’s efforts to seed the first bamboo bike factory in Ghana, where reliable and cheap bicycle transportation can dramatically improve access to jobs, commerce, education, basic food and water resources, and health care.
For fun, for learning, for building a better ride and a better world: we hope you’ll see how the Bamboo Bike Studio offers the unique and intimate chance to create your own ride, and also produces positive effects that extend to the lives of cyclists, workers and entrepreneurs abroad.
Please take a look around our website to learn more about the Class, the Cause, the Bamboo, and the Bikes.
Thanks,Check out this recent story on the Bamboo Bike Studio from Planet Green. A Great look at the student experience of building a bike at the Studio.
Great article on the BBS from Planet Green
The best bike in the world is the bike you build yourself.
BBS is excited to announce that this Saturday, December 5th we’ll be part of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s ongoing Drop-in Design Workshops. Stop by between 2:30-5:30 to ask questions about building bamboo bikes, and watch a live frame build up.
The Copper-Hewitt is located at 2 East 91st Street.
Hope to see you there!
Bamboo Bike Studio is proud to announce that for the rest of November, and most of December, you can check out our latest bike build at Nau clothing’s NYC pop-up store location, 69 Mercer in Soho.
BBS backs Nau’s corporate responsibility, enlightened aesthetics, and innovative approach to integrating renewable and recycled materials throughout their clothing line. Stop by the store, you’ll be impressed with Nau’s considered approach to the space, and their wares. And with a nice calendar of public events and bands, why wouldn’t you?
See you in Soho.
Harry Schwartzman and friends have brought together local cyclists, mechanics, and businesses in their wildly successful Bike Jumbles .
In advance of this weekend’s third Jumble we caught up with Schwartzman to get the story with the events: “I think the Jumbles strengthen the New York bike community because it gets more bikes into the city. We have itinerant bike dealers who haunt the east coast swap-meet circuit come to New York to sell their inexpensive bikes. More bikes means that there are more cyclists, and the more cyclists there are, the safer we all can be.
“The Jumble, at its most basic level, exists to get bikes into peoples hands. Times-Up was kind enough to run a repair stand at the last Jumble, and I think seeing someone fix a bike is so educational, particularly for novices. The reality is that bikes are simple, and watching someone do a simple repair quickly can, hopefully, be an inspiration for people to fix their own bikes. We also try to give good information on our blog and we actively answer questions for readers.”
On November 15 from 11AM-3PM, they’ll be offering cyclists a chance to have their portraits taken by Brooklyn-based photographer Keiko Niwa. Ride over to JJ Byrne Park (5th Ave and 3rd St) and say “cheese.” Bamboo Bike Studio will also be on, hand so come over and say hello.
Lots of bikers biked to the Bike Rides opening festival.
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art opened their Bike Rides show this past Sunday, and BBS was on hand for the fun.
Vendors, fine art bicycle installations, bamboo bikes, trials demonstrations and more, it was a fun event, and the show will up through October, so take a trip upstate and check it out.
Metropolis bamboo bikes article
Metropolis magazine’s just-published October issue includes a write up on bamboo bikes in Africa, including BBS’ own work to develop a factory in Ghana. If you get a chance pick up a copy at the magazine rack and check it out!
The NY Daily News recently stopped by the Studio to talk to Sean and Marty about building bamboo bikes. Check the story out here.
BBS in the NY Daily News
Brownstoner, one of the top “about” sites in Brooklyn recently ran a mention of the Bamboo Bike Studio. Check it out here:
Bamboo Bike Studio on Brownstoner