Re: [CR]Re: Bike Materials [was] Titanium rims on eBay

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:04:23 -0400
From: Jerry & Liz Moos <moos@penn.com>
To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Bike Materials [was] Titanium rims on eBay
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The banner on the CR site says "1900 - 1980", so if they were available at the turn of the last century, they are on-topic, just as are non-steel Speedwells, Teledynes, ALANs and Vituses made in the 70's. Provided they were lightweights of course, and bamboo is pretty light.

Regards,

Jerry Moos

Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> Jerry Moos wrote:
> >
> > (snip)I would think one could build a
> > perfectly good bike frame from bamboo, if someone could work out how to join
> > the tubes, and even that might be no problem for, say, a skilled
> > cabinentmaker. I think maybe bamboo-framed bikes have been made in Asia
> > before WWII
>
> They were commercialy available at the turn of the last century. And I
> think this is a vaguely off topic for classicrendezvous, Jerry.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, California
> beautiful mid-80s