Help Love Bikes get the tools and materials necessary to start producing hand built bamboo frames and complete bicycles right here in Pittsburgh

Love Bikes in Lawrenceville is trying to begin producing hand-built bamboo bicycle frames and complete bikes. In the summer of 2011 owner Nic Brungo learned how to build bamboo bike frames at a small shop in Brooklyn. While there he not only learned about the process and the tools and materials but also about the advantages of riding a bamboo bike and the positive effect producing them can have on a neighborhood.

From the Indiegogo:

Bamboo bicycles are essentially, functional Art. Not only are they beautiful, they represent ingenuity and can inspire creativity. They promote environmental and cultural awareness. They give their riders and the people that build them a real sense of pride that what they’re riding and what they’re making is unique and ecological. And best of all, bamboo really makes a great bike. It’s light, it’s stronger than steel, it’s comfortable, and it’s budget-friendly.

Eventually he’d like all the bamboo to be grown and harvested right here in Pittsburgh.

He also has plans to offer free seminars to people that want to learn about bamboo bikes and how they’re made, as well as one on one studio time for those who’d like to build their own bike in the shop. All this starts here by raising the money for the tools, jigs, and materials to start producing our first line of bikes.

For more info and to see what is being offered, check out the Love Bikes Bamboo Bicycle Indiegogo page.

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