Bicycle junkyard?

[shane]

Come on Stuart, stop holding out on me. Where does the crazy man with all the bike live? The reason I would like the do the build is just for fun really. I think it would be cool to ride around on something that I build from the ground up and I don't have any welding or soldering skills. The police auction seems like a very good idea and I think I'll start cruising the pawn shops and thrift stores soon, I was just hopeful there was a junkyard of some sort for this type of thing. I mean of all the places green and hippie, I figured they would want to reuse and recycle, haha. Next question, where do you find bamboo locally? I found a few sources on ebay.

[Marlin]

Agreed. I know bamboo is exceptionally strong, but I can't imagine something like that holding up too well.

Let me be about 9-10 again,, I'll have that thing broke 1-2 days max....

[shane]

Let me be about 9-10 again,, I'll have that thing broke 1-2 days max....

You would be surprised at how durrable it really is. In Asia they use bamboo to build scaffolding for their buildings. Here's a guy who made a bamboo mountain bike that he actually raced.

http://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm

[Irving]

That bamboo bike is pretty cool. I passed it on.