This is amazing. I don't say this often, but damn am I impressed! How do you hollow out lengths of wood that long? And what is the material composition of your bio-derived epoxy?

Beautyfull

Excellent.

Thank you all for your kind remarks. The hollowing is done by pilot drilling from both ends so the pole must be straight enough (one bend max) to permit this. It is then machined to the wall thickness from the inside by a rather scary routing machine with a long shaft extender which I developed for the purpose. Quite a lot of splintered wood was produced during development! Hollowing is done with the wood in the green state and it dries quickly once hollowed.

The epoxy resin is from Entropy in California. It turns out in fact to be 25% bio-derived. I am aware of a number of developments towards 100% bio-derived but none which are on the market as yet. If anyone knows of one please let me know. As development continues I aim to gradually reduce the non-sustainable material content.

That's fantastic… sure makes my rather expensive cannondale look less impressive! Is there a website we can look to for more information?

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+Matt Allen http://beamz.org.uk

wow beautiful bike simply awesome

Amazing

I have a concern about the solidity of the joint of the front forks to the steering tube. Would it not be more rigid if the forks extended to the handlebars, with a joint both at the top and bottom of the steering tube, as done on a lot of motorcycles? I see that you have done that on the rear top set of forks. But a great build, and a super looking bike – should turn a few years!