zarko bubalo: sustainable wooden bicycles

bamboo is sustainable it grows approx a meter a day, any material that grows on surface of the earth is replenish-able, steel is recyclable, but a huge amount of energy is required and co2 production is massive, the wood is used in fibre form to form a matrix composite so is extremely strong, replenishable materials are the way to go

The video remind me of Treinspotting from the first second to the end, it’s a bit sad..isn’t it?

I like the frame! Finally a good-looking, aerodynamic, modern wood frame and I think it’ll look very elegant on a simple single-speed city bike. It’ll be awesome also on a cycle cross commuter.
It’s a great combination of technology and natural material. There is so many benefit if you use this frame on your commuter bike. You can also keep it in your living room, like a design object… it’ll looks cool.

It’s not eco-friendly, it’s luxury.

NB: I understand the Brooks saddle on any bike.. but on a mountain bike?

This should be bamboo.

Calfee makes some of the nicest, but many people make bamboo bikes already. Bamboo being one of the fastest growing, “sustainable” materials and needing the least amount of processing as its natural hollow structure is great for a lightweight bicycle.
I’m a woodworker and an avid cyclist.

another view at wood and sustainability:

If you chop down one tree to make something, and at the same time you plant two or more new ones in it’s place – it is sustainable. If you chop off a part of a healthy tree to make something – new branches will grow out at the same place. Still seems pretty sustainable.

Extracting ore from the ground is tedious process, and once it is extracted.. it is gone.

Wood rots in time, but can be easily protected with quality finishes. Metal rusts but it can be protected by coats of paint. Nothing really lasts forever. For most products sustainability is is just a matter of perspective.

I find it funny calling “sustainable” to a wooden bike… The moment you have to chop a tree to make a bike, this is no longer sustainable… Unless they use recycled wood, but I see this bike is made of perfect, high quality wood… It can´t be recycled, so… Again like in many other projects, putting the trendy word next to the name so it looks sustainable…

No easy answer to whether this deserves a ‘sustainable’ description or not. I like the assertion that the raw materials are more readily available, vs steel or other traditional frame materials. And the CNC process, while inherently wasteful, just results in wood chips. I find it curious that the designer stopped with the frame, and even built the bike up with mountain bike components like a suspension fork and disc brakes! There could be ‘sustainable’ or wood options for those parts – anyway they muck up the lines of the frame.
Agree with the above posting – just make it from wood, call it ‘beautiful’, and quit the greenwashing.

The term sustainable here is purely for the selling sake, just trying to be more sellable. Just the shear lack of material here used for the frame of the bike is so insubstantial, even if thousands of them are produced. It is an interesting design but the label sustainable is just too used up. The computer or laptop, or whatever, that you are using to read this article probably used up alot more resources than one of these bikes in production…