My Bamboo Bike - Francis' city cruiser

I received the bamboo city cruiser for my 77th birthday in June last year - just about my best ever birthday present !! What a treat it is to ride - everything seems about perfect.
Pride of ownership grows daily and the complimentary comments I hear as I pedal along are music to my ears !
As a founder member of the Guernsey Bicycle Group, which promotes cycling for environmental reasons, the bamboo frame seems to endorse our aims.
The Nexus Alfine 8 speed hub gears and hydraulic brakes are a joy and even the Brooks saddle has welcomed me!
Francis Paul, Chairman, Guernsey Bicycle Group

Vito Sport Blog's Top Ten Summer Riding Tips

Our friends at the Vito Sport Blog have written a great piece on summer riding, which we wanted to share with you.

You can find the post here: http://biker.vitosport.co.uk/2011/04/11/top-ten-tips-for-a-summer-of-riding/

Happy and safe riding all!

My Bamboo Bike

Clearly, we love riding bamboo bikes! But we thought we'd run a series of blogs on other people's bamboo bikes, so you can read about their experiences, rather than just hear it from us!

If you ride a bamboo bike and would like to send us an image of you and your bike, and any stories about riding it, please feel free to contact us: bike@rawbamboobikes.co.uk


I will kick things off:
My name is Rachel, and I am around bamboo bikes pretty much most of the time. I ride a hardtail bamboo mountain bike and love the responsiveness over all the rocks and bumps. It provides a smooth ride and is quick to respond to my control. I am much less tired after a day's riding, than if riding another material.
I find it fulfils all I ask of it off road and around the trail centres of the UK.

Update

Now that we are well into 2011, it is high time we blogged regularly again!

We are currently re-branding and will be posting some artwork for your comments soon.

In the mean time, happy riding and we'll be in touch soon!