The low-cost bike of the future might not come from Walmart, but your own living room. A group of London-based designers is pioneering a new system that uses a small 3-D printer to make strong, custom ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER — With his gloved hands wrapping epoxy-soaked carbon-fiber ribbon around the chainstays of his bamboo bike frame, Dustin Sysko is relishing each ...

It wasn't that long ago that bamboo-framed bikes were thought of as a weird rarity. Thanks to its combination of durability, stiffness and vibration-damping characteristics, however, the material has ...

When custom bike frame builder Craig Calfee needed a gimmick to attract attention to his designs at the Interbike show in Las Vegas 12 years ago, he turned to an unlikely material: bamboo. "The bike ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Bike maker Craig Calfee has found a way to grow bicycle frames in a field, with sunlight and water. He makes them out of bamboo. "It's like bonsai basically," said Calfee, who is ...

As much as we'd like to convince ourselves that appearances don't matter, they do. This isn't a lecture or a casual argument on the deeper meaning of life; we're just stating that appearances matter ...

Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog — part pit bull and part Labrador retriever — was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee’s bicycle shop outside Santa ...

A bamboo bicycle frame hanging in MonkeyBoy Bicycles displays the genesis of what two Whitworth University graduates envision as a product that’s custom-made in Myanmar. Jeff and Kristen Parker ...

Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog -- part pit bull and part Labrador retriever -- was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee’s bicycle shop outside Santa ...

The electric cargo bike is already among the greenest vehicles out there, capable of replacing car rides and even van deliveries in a compact, clean and city-friendly package. German bicycle company ...

Get a frame you like, trace its geometry on to a wooden board, and secure it with a jig to hold the parts you want to keep. Saw off the bottom bracket sleeve, headset tube, seat-post tube and dropouts ...

Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two-wheelers ...