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Panda Bicycles is Growing Bikes…Literally

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Panda Bicycles is counting down the days until the launch of “The One”, their first bamboo bicycle.  Based (and to be built, we presume) in Fort Collins, CO, Panda plans to use one of nature’s fastest growing renewable resources to make simple bikes.  The One will be available for about $850 and come as a fixie, single speed or 3-speed internally geared bike with coaster brake.

While they claim that no Pandas are harmed in their production, there’s a hilarious PB poster to the contrary in the background of this video on The Denver Channel. They anticipate launching their first bike in 56 days, 12 hours and some change (as of this post’s published timestamp).  Funny, I thought bamboo grew faster than that…

We found out about these guys from a comment on this post about DIY bamboo bikes.

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Bikejuju
15 years ago

I am aware of three commercial ventures to build bamboo bikes: Panda, which seems to be an all-USA company, Calfee Designs and their collaboration with Bamboo Bike Project, an program of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, with several Africa projects, which you mentioned in your previous post, and Zambikes (http://www.zambikes.org/) who are developing a bamboo bike for commercial production in Zambia (BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8125274.stm ). I would be very curious to know if there are bamboo bike project headed in this direction beyond just these three.

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sc
15 years ago

they’d better do something about that headtube angle. that bike doesnt look rideable in its current configuration.

uglyyeti
uglyyeti
15 years ago

Looks like they’ve left room for a headshok.

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