Bikeride

Sie sind jung, sie sind schön und sie sind schnell. Sie kennen kein Gesetz, keine Pflichten, keine roten Ampeln. Alles was sie interessiert, ist ihre Bambusräder zu fahren. Jeden Tag. Bis ans Maximum. Sie sind die Bamboo Cats of Berlin. Hier in unserem Blog.

-stefan

Mayfest

I love mayfest. Everybody goes outside. Everybody walks around in the streets. People grill on the sidewalk. People talk to eachother. People meet one another. People fall in love. Every once in a while, a car gets set of fire or a brick tossed through a bank window. Thats just how mayfest is.

This mayfest I just so happened to finish a frame. Its the most refined frame I've built yet. And the lightest. I was doing some finishing touches when Stefan and Josie showed up and asked if I wanted to come with them to Kreuzberg. I grabbed my almost finished frame, tossed it over my shoulder, shoved my camera in my pocket and we rode off into the beautiful afternoon...

... but not before making Josie pose for a couple glamour shots in the garden. She is so beautiful.

Enjoy,
Dan

new bike: 1.5kilo

Here is the lightest frame ever built in our workshop. Extra care was taken to use the lightest tubing and joining method possible. It weighs in at just about 1.5 kilos (We'll know exactly when its done). Is it strong enough? Will it hold? We're about to find out...

...and a wheelbarrow full of dead bicycles, sacraficed to a greater good.

Italian vs. German ... uhm, engineering?

Bamboo transports human

Bamboo has transported quite a lot of human lately. In addition to Anselm's epic rides to Hamburg and Hannover, David Birger and myself recently rode from Berlin to Usedom... not in one day. Right before leaving I got Anja to pose with my bike.

The weather was ideal. The roads were amazing. The scenery even better. The closer we got to the coast, the cleaner and cooler the air became. We also discovered that when a German map says "aussichtspunkt" that usually means "spectacular free place to camp".

On the ferry between Ückermünde and Kamminke we met a biologist who was finishing his tour from Dresden to Usedom. In two days. wow. I think he wants a bamboo bike.

-dan

Anselm rides to Hannover

Anselm is my hero. Last Friday he rode from Berlin to Hannover. 280km. what more can I say?

party at the Rummelsburger Bucht

It was a beautiful sunday afternoon and I was on my way to the workshop, riding the trail along the Rummelsburger Bucht which constitutes the most scenic part of my ride. Approaching a bend in the trail, I begin to hear music, and peoples voices, and a crowd begins to appear. It is sunday afternoon, and a group of 4 or 5 hundred people are partying, dancing, and relaxing around an obandoned house in the sun on the banks of the river. I ask around, whats the event for? Whats the special occasion? Theres no special occasion, its just a party. Because its Sunday and the sun is shining. I love Berlin.

I decided this is the right opportunity to begin taking pictures for our blog. I asked a couple people lying in the grass along the trail if they would pose with a bike for a blog. "If it will help you sell those bikes, I'd be glad to!" said one. Thanks you guys!

Dan