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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19852471/detail.html
Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bicycles Ready To Take Off
CSU Grad Students Say They've Created The Bicycle Of The Future
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Two Colorado State University graduate students
say they have created the bicycle of the future -- an organic bicycle
made primarily from bamboo grown on plantations in Mexico’s Yucatan
Peninsula.
Jacob Castillo and John McKinney are both MBA candidates in CSU’s Global
Social and Sustainability Enterprise program and co-founders of Panda
Bicycles.
McKinney came up with the idea to create bamboo bicycles after making a
trip to the Yucatan Peninsula as part of a summer program to build
sustainable housing for Mexican villages. McKinney wanted to use bamboo
to build the houses, but discovered that the species of bamboo that he
had in mind was too small.
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"I got back home from my summer trip and I was thinking, 'I wonder what
we can do with this,' and I looked at my bike and thought, 'Why not make
bamboo bikes?'" said McKinney.
It turns out the idea was not entirely new. A small number of bamboo
bicycles have been designed as novelties and sell for anywhere between
$3,000 and $10,000.
But McKinney and fellow student Castillo wanted to create a sustainable
bamboo bicycle for everyday use, one that would retail for under $1,000.
After McKinney returned from Mexico, he partnered up with Castillo and
founded Panda Bicycles. Using the strongest species of bamboo from
Mexico, Castillo asked a friend to design a prototype. They claim the
result is as strong as any steel bicycle.
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