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

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:46:38 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Bike Materials [was] Titanium rims on eBay
References: <ABC4A5183996D411BF92000629EEABAD366283@mail-server.urc.com>


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