{"id":411,"date":"2008-02-24T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/02\/24\/the-bamboo-bike\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:54:28","slug":"the-bamboo-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/24\/the-bamboo-bike\/cool-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bamboo Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long wondered if building a bike frame from bamboo or some other wood species would be practical&#8230; I guess so, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calfeedesign.com\/bamboo.htm\">Calfee Design<\/a> has been doing it for a while now. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/calfeedesign.com\/Bamboomtnbig.htm'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/calfeebamboomtb.jpg' alt='calfeebamboomtb.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What it comes down to is having a good set of lugs is the main thing &mdash; that sets the stage for getting all the components in proper alignment and the proper position. The main job of the tubing is to connect the lugs with a mix of rigidity and suppleness for the degree of performance and comfort you want, whatever material is used. Calfee uses carbon fiber lugs (or hemp fiber, &#8220;for the all-natural look.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davintosh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bamboocrosshempseatlug.jpg?w=450\" alt='bamboocrosshempseatlug.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Very, very cool idea. A little expensive, and a little quirky, but very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long wondered if building a bike frame from bamboo or some other wood species would be practical&#8230; I guess so, because Calfee Design has been doing it for a while now. What it comes down to is having a good set of lugs is the main thing &mdash; that sets the stage for getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-cool-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}