Bamboo bikes on the SA cycling stage?

[Calculus Bikes]

I have an open question to all the Hubbers out there:

 

Do you think there is room for bamboo bikes on the SA cycling stage?

 

There are some very good arguments for bamboo bikes, but yet we don't see them around our races, on training rides or in the streets parked outside nice coffee bars.

 

How do you think this observation is to be explained?

 

Looking forward to your words of wisdom and insight.

 

CB

[BigDL]

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[ZakAttak]

I wooden go there, or maybe I wood....

Seen one a few years ago at the Argus Cycle Tour, nicely made.... and very nice to look at....

 

It was gorgeous in my opinion, not that it counts....

[Fat Boab]

Saw an oke ride a bamboo bike at last year's Jock. He had a cassette like a satellite dish....

 

But it was quite sexy, the bike that is.

[CAAD4]

Sjoe not sure they wood last in the Cape winter...

[Calculus Bikes]

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Morning Wahoofish, thanks for the welcome.  Introduction made in relevant thread.

[PhilipV]

I've always wanted a singlespeed ZamBikes pub bike. Bamboo bikes are super sexy.

Is there room? Of course.

Is it as suitable as Ali or carbon for frame material? Well you'll know better than us.

But there is very little info on it available, so it's pretty unknown.

[shaper]

Some reading

 

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/159943-building-a-bamboo-mountain-bike/?hl=bamboo

 

http://www.news24.com/Green/News/hipster-or-helpful-bamboo-bikes-are-all-the-rage-in-ghana-20160129

[Dullscalpel]

I really didn't know that bamboo bikes were a thing...

[Grease_Monkey]

IMO - Cool as a cruiser or recreational bike, so there is definitively room, but I don't think anyone is going to be replacing their carbon racers with bamboo bikes.

[Patchelicious]

I really didn't know that bamboo nikes were a thing...

They aren't really, better known for their Air Jordan's.

[Spinnekop]

IMO - Cool as a cruiser or recreational bike, so there is definitively room, but I don't think anyone is going to be replacing their carbon racers with bamboo bikes.

Same thoughts here.

 

If you go "Simple Sam" and make it affordable, single speed etc, it will have a retro look and feel. 

I'll use it as a commuter if I had the $

[Velouria]

I rode past two people on my commute about 2 weeks ago on bamboo bikes. I did feel like a planet murdering, capitalist consumer pig on my carbon road bike, and I could tell they were judging me too!

 

And I was envious - they do look rather cool.

[Calculus Bikes]

They aren't really, better known for their Air Jordan's.

 

Must be a new line they are trying...

[Calculus Bikes]

Same thoughts here.

 

If you go "Simple Sam" and make it affordable, single speed etc, it will have a retro look and feel. 

I'll use it as a commuter if I had the $

I find your comments very interesting, both seem to like the idea, but dont think bamboo can be used for a "serious" bike.  Could I press you a bit to think why you feel that way?

[Pure Savage]

Lets slow down here, when you say bamboo bikes, is it one of those 5 tubes are bamboo and everything else is normal kind of bikes. Roll my eyes at those.. Come back when you have lashed the thing together, have bamboo handle bar, seat post, saddle and pedals. Then we can call it bamboo. 

 

Thats like calling my Scott S5 with a seat tube a "carbon bike"