{"id":215,"date":"2012-08-30T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2012\/08\/growing-bamboo-bikes-business\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:12:00","slug":"growing-bamboo-bikes-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2012\/08\/30\/growing-bamboo-bikes-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing bamboo bikes business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve got some bamboo in the backyard. It&#8217;s the clumping type that doesn&#8217;t become a pest, unless you plant it too close to the neighbour&#8217;s fence and it bangs against their guttering during high winds. It pretty much grows itself and when combined with some dowel and a drill or some wire and zip ties it can construct all manner of useful things.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone cared less about my bamboo fencing I might tell you all about it but&#8230;you can&#8217;t really give a rat&#8217;s&#8230;.so I&#8217;ll cut to the bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Wanna bamboo bike but prefer to buy one that doesn&#8217;t exist in production yet? Want to be part of a growing business (pun intended, but it&#8217;s pretty sad pun)? Get on board with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozoncyclery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ozon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-N4l5v4QLeOE\/UD_sKetQbyI\/AAAAAAAAJ2Q\/fFYVZPStlDQ\/s1600\/ozon-bamboo-bike.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"232\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-N4l5v4QLeOE\/UD_sKetQbyI\/AAAAAAAAJ2Q\/fFYVZPStlDQ\/s400\/ozon-bamboo-bike.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">They&#8217;re on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/534272844\/ozon-cyclery-tester-bike-funding?play=1&amp;ref=search\" target=\"_blank\">kickstarter<\/a> looking to fund a trial of their bamboo bikes. You can pledge just $10 and get a limited edition spoke card (and I <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2012\/06\/im-individual-and-you-cant-fool-me.html\">just love spoke cards<\/a>). For $100 you get a day in the workshop building your own bamboo frame. Sounds like great value but don&#8217;t rush in if you&#8217;re an Australian reader. I just booked my return air fair (business class of course, I&#8217;m not flying economy halfway round the world to build a bike out of grass) and discovered my apparently cheap bike (I&#8217;m prepared to supply the bamboo) is costing me well over $6,000. That&#8217;s the entire budget of &nbsp;the kickstarter campaign. I could have funded my own bamboo bike and still had money left over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/106166720\/hemp-plastic-water-bottles?ref=live\" target=\"_blank\">pledge toward a hemp water bottle<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some bamboo in the backyard. 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