"Ride that bamboo!" could be a possible phrase shouted at four young cyclists making their way through Utah this weekend on their journey to San Francisco on bamboo-framed bicycles.In hopes of promoting the up and coming bamboo industry in Alabama, Jason Dilworth (Utah native!), Marc O'Brien, Nicole Lavelle and Rose Lavelle, hand-built their bikes in Alabama with the help of the Brooklyn-based Bamboo Bike Studio and will continue their journey until arriving in the Golden Gate City.
The community-based resource center and bike driven peeps at Epicenter, in Green River, UT, will be throwing a bash for the Alabamboo Make and Ride crew on Sunday. If you're in the area, join the fun. If not, put on some bug spray, chop some wood, and build a bike.
Ride or Die on IndieGoGo from Alabamboo: Ride or Die on Vimeo.
We are planning to build a workshop in Greensboro, Alabama that will be the future home for building Common Cycles. This facility will create jobs and empower local residents with access to affordable and sustainable transportation options. The bamboo bike facility and cross-country bike ride is a small part of what Alabamboo is aiming to accomplish. We’ve partnered with Marsha Folsom, wife of former Alabama Governor Jim Folsom, to develop this ride as one part of a much larger bamboo initiative. Marsha is helping lead a movement to have bamboo grown as a sustainable agricultural crop in Alabama in partnership with Washington-based Booshoot Gardens. Booshoot has developed technology to produce bamboo tissue culture for propagating bamboo rapidly at a large scale—and Alabama is ripe for growing it. We branded the initiative “Alabamboo” as the first step to making Alabama mean bamboo the way Florida means oranges, Idaho means potatoes and Maine means lobsters.
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