If anyone’s interested in the Calfee bamboo bike, I’ve just had a day’s test ride & there’ll be a review on http://www.chasingtrails.com towards the end of next week. I’m not associated with the importers, so the review is impartial & my honest opinion, but without writing the whole lot here I can say I really liked the bike.
@elaine anne “jeepers, if you pull a big wheelie and land hard ,wont the bamboo crack ?… lol”
– see review on http://www.chasingtrails.com/home/mtb-kit for pics in the air. It didn’t break, felt solid. The bamboo is heat treated so it doesn’t crack or split like green stuff might.
Wow – I’ll be looking forward to ride reports of the Bamboo bike!
Love the cable guide on the Calfee.
I looking forward to seeing more of those nice strappy gold spd shoes out on the trails.
bamboo what ever next………………reed full sus
Ian – I’m afraid they’re flatties (with sticky Stealth rubber sole) ;-)
Through the Grinder
Calfee Bamboo bike.
It rotted.
feeling drawn towards the bike, very odd.
How will it cope with the heat from the rear disk?
Looks like the seat stay is cracked above the brake bridge…..is it me!!!
I think that’s just a join in the bamboo
jeepers, if you pull a big wheelie and land hard ,wont the bamboo crack ?… lol
Isn’t Tung oil cruel to reap?
If anyone’s interested in the Calfee bamboo bike, I’ve just had a day’s test ride & there’ll be a review on http://www.chasingtrails.com towards the end of next week. I’m not associated with the importers, so the review is impartial & my honest opinion, but without writing the whole lot here I can say I really liked the bike.
@elaine anne “jeepers, if you pull a big wheelie and land hard ,wont the bamboo crack ?… lol”
– see review on http://www.chasingtrails.com/home/mtb-kit for pics in the air. It didn’t break, felt solid. The bamboo is heat treated so it doesn’t crack or split like green stuff might.