From the NY Times, there is also an instructable link to build your own bamboo bike…
Just Don’t Let a Panda Borrow Your Bicycle
Justin Aguinaldo, a designer at the Bamboo Bike Studio in Brooklyn, tries one of the bikes.
Photo by Christian Hansen for The New York Times
By MALIA WOLLAN
Published: August 11, 2010
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’s sturdy hollow stalks (with a strength-to-weight ratio similar to that of steel) may explain why bamboo is being heralded by bikers, environmentalists and social entrepreneurs as a material with no carbon footprint and the potential to provide cheap wheels in poor countries. Serious spandex-clad cyclists like bamboo bicycles, as do tattooed bike messengers and thrifty Ghanaian shopkeepers.
“There is something going on with bamboo bicycles,” said Jay Townley, a partner in the market research firm Gluskin Townley Group. “They’re catching on with urban and commuting cyclists.”
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