homemade bamboo road bike

By lewisbamboo on 05/17/2009. Bike tags: Road bike | homemade bamboo carbon campagnolo

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Frame / Size / Year:
Custom Lewis bamboo 57cm w/ horizontal dropouts

Handlebars / Stem:
easton ec90 bonded with carbon wrap to syntace stem

Fork / Headset:
Look carbon fork, chris king headset

Front Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
ksyrium elite

Rear Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
open pro on power tap hub 32spoke

Crankset / Bottom Bracket:
record bb chorus cranks

Saddle / Seat Post:
cheap seatpost, waiting for thomson set back, slr saddle

Pedals / Chain:
keo carbon pedals, record 10spd chain

Gearing / Chainring / Misc.:
39/53 12-25 american classic conversion cassette

Notes:

This is the fifth bamboo frame that I've built. Amazing ride quality, great for training and racing.

People who friended this bike eaglerock, mr.2ter, Natephish, mastronaut, jellyfish, payne, Ruffinit, artinmotion, REPIN213, hollowgram5, jleath, rRooster, Zombine, kentjohnson00

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damn this bike is so stupid

Submitted by lucas a on 05/19/2009.

damn this bike is so stupid

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damn this bike is so stupid

Submitted by lucas a on 05/19/2009.

damn this bike is so stupid

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Xtreme

Submitted by Ruffinit on 05/18/2009.

I was just looking this stuff up the other day. Nice job!

Here's a couple more links for those not intelligent enough to see that this is a viable material for frames:

http://www.calfeedesign.com/bamboo.htm
http://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm

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Is your bar tape really made

Submitted by payne on 05/17/2009.

Is your bar tape really made out of carbon fiber????

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I believe,

Submitted by cyclecrazyjames on 05/17/2009.

that he wrapped the stem and bars together with carbon fiber to make a custom 1 piece bar and stem, I believe that is what he did.

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No whats stupid,

Submitted by cyclecrazyjames on 05/17/2009.

Is that lucas a doesnt even have a bike of his own on there, and hes saying that this bike is stupid, now that is a joke.

This bike is really good build, and looks super good!!

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thats stupid

Submitted by lucas a on 05/17/2009.

thats stupid

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Don't be ignorant.

Submitted by r.p.r on 05/17/2009.

Don't be ignorant.

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Wow

Submitted by eaglerock on 05/17/2009.

Very slick. Do bamboo frames get appreciably weaker if you sand down the ridges for a smoother tube profile?

As you've used Nokon cabling, you may be just the person I need to speak to. If you could take a look at this forum thread, I'd really appreciate it.

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