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Thailand Inspires the Bamboo Bicycle |
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 What makes a bike frame with the smoothest ride? Titanium? Aluminum Alloy? Graphite Composite Fiber? If you want a bike frame that gives you a really smooth ride--maybe you should go chop down a bamboo tree.
That's just what Daedulus Bicycles does for their bikes: they build their frames out of bamboo.
Designers Liakos Ariston and Jacob Prinz started Daedalus Custom Bamboo
Bikes two years ago after drawing up designs on a napkin; so far
they've made a limited run of high-end bikes that sell for around
$1,250 each.
And where did they dream this up? Why, on a trip to Thailand of course! (It must have been the Chang Beer talking.)
Prinz spent time working for his family's construction company, but
it was on a trip to Thailand where he got inspiration from seeing the
bamboo woodworkers of Southeast Asia.
"I saw a lot of examples of
what people were doing and the structures they could build, it was such
a raw form of construction but at the same time they were able to build
things up to our standards," he said.
Read the full article at SanLuisObispo.com
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