: Get wood

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“Wood frame bikes have long given way to aluminum and space age materials but designer Arndt Menke thinks we were too hasty in giving up on one of the strongest, resilient, and lightweight natural materials. There are over 60,000 woody plants worldwide but we use less than 300 of them in a terribly unsustainable way. The Holzweg bike’s frame is totally made of wood and weighs a scant 2.3kg.”

We’re liking this idea. We’ve seen rare wood rims on some road bikes locally but the idea of a wood frame is interesting. Not new, there are bamboo based ‘production’ bikes, but the thing about this is it looks like a real bike, not some funky thing that a lot of people have a hard time getting their heads around.

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