GRASSBIKES – Folks and Bamboo Bikes

Description

History | Builders | Riders | Stories | Patents | Business Models from inside and outside the bamboo belt.

A book for people interested in bamboo bikes.
It tells its story from its beginnings in 1894 to the present from different perspectives. Through portraits of the pioneers at the end of the 19th century and its rediscovery 100 years later.
Besides the people, the focus is on the innovative ideas and the business models. Their documentation serves to find ways to make better bamboo bicycles today – inside and outside the bamboo belt.
The purpose of building bicycles is to ride them. For this reason, at the beginning of the book there is a travelogue by someone who built a bamboo bicycle in Shanghai, China and rode it all the his way home to Lausanne, Switzerland.

Also available as eBook at amazon.