The Beauty and Utility of Bamboo
Flavio Deslandes ia a Brazilian industrial designer from the PUC-Rio University and he developed a bicycle made of bamboo. According to Flavio, bamboo is a resource of immense potential. And it is strong too. What makes it possible to build bicycles from it is that it is stronger than steel when strained in the longitudinal direction (by 17 percent). In addition to this article by Steen Heinsen, The American Bamboo Society list many uses for bamboo as a raw material.
