Behold the bamboo built recumbent trike. Monash University industrial design student Alexander Vittouris in Melbourne, Australia designed this three wheeled recumbent “Naturally Derived Personal Mobility Vehicle” using a bamboo fiber and resin composite, something like the bamboo composite that mad scientist Brano Meres showed off in 2008. In his design contest submission, Vittouris writes: The read more
Calfee’s bamboo bikes have always been a hit at the bike shows they attend, and Brano Meres can always be counted on to do something interesting like he did with the bamboo composite bike he brought last year. Biomega introduced their Bamboo bicycle in 2005 and they brought it to the show this year (as read more
Road frame made with bamboo fiber composite material Brano Meres is an engineer in Slovakia who first built a carbon / bamboo composite bike four years ago. He continues to dabble in new materials. His latest innovation is this frame made from a bamboo composite material. This frame looks and kind of feels like a read more
