A solid ash ‘vibration-absorbing’ cyclocross bike by Amsterdam-based designer Paul Timmer.
The bike weighs in at just 11kg, uses a more durable belt rather than a metal chain and has a split front fork and solid handlebar to preserve the grain and strength of the wood.
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Anyone ever cycled in Amsterdam?
No but it looks sweet as hell, especially with all the 9 ft tall blonde women floating about
Loads of people cycle in Amsterdam every day, mate.
Cool, thanks. It was a question on a test I’m doing right now.
did ye hear the one about the wooden bike?
It wooden go!
“Hal Roach, ladies & gentlemen”
Paul Timber, no?
I know you don’t normally do this but… someone sawed through and stole my wooden bicycle.
Then they set it on fire….
So… Much… Hipster….
Hipstery dickory stop!
That should have been ‘hickory’ dang it !
Ash ‘ure, I’m going no where with this yoak, it’s just not poplar enough….
Damn it… ‘shoot’ me… such a sap-ling !
Leaf it out Clampers. It’s chestnut funny.
oak-ay, that’s enough with the wood puns
shut up birch!
Elm, willow tree the board, to wi’a grain of saw, yew beech?
Yew saw me sick, ah – more, cr-oak!
Come on Chompsky. You left out the “Yours for only €2000” or whatever.
All was going well until the woodlice got into it.
It’s stunning, but there’s a very good reason why people tend not to make bikes from wood. It’s probably the same reason they tend not to build cars out of wood.
there has been an irish company making bike frames from wood for (at least) several years:
http://woodelo.ie/
Most hipster comment award goes to…
Guess which one 99% would take if given a choice?
I’ve ridden the Woodelo, it’s a really nice bike. Couldn’t deal with this Dutch one with only one gear. Nothing makes me grin more than someone trying to look cool while struggling to cycle up a steep hill on a fixe.
Dutch one is a city bike. Only need multiple gears for San Fran man.
” more durable belt” – nice try but is the opposite.
I finally looked up fixie… its one of those feckin’ bikes… bad bad experience on a fixie as a child. No way hosay.
WHAT! My image for you is you on a fixie going over La Touche bridge listening to Beach House ‘Wishes’ smiling about the poolbeg towers and the coffee you’re gonna have that no one else only a few close friends know about, in a nice hat.
Need to rethink it ALL now.
Ha :)
I do love how you called it La Touche bridge – yay!
I do like a warm hat… nice probably doesn’t come into it, practicality over style me.
Also while I love coffee, the coffee in these new hipster coffee house is just awful. I don’t see the appeal.. 3Fe etc. Just give me an Americano that’s HOT and regular in size. No your regular is a small, your large is a regular.
Coming out event …
I don’t know what a fixie is
Not just me then – hehehe
It’s short for ‘fixed gear’. No gear changes and the wheels stop moving if you stop pedalling.
Deadly, thanks. I thought it meant some auwl yoke of a thing that you ‘fixed’ up.
Most bikes have a free hub, so you can stop pedaling, when you like. With a fixie, you have to keep pedaling, as the hub is fixed in place. Great for the velodrome, kinda dangerous for every where else.
A solid handlebar?
What a brilliant idea for a bike!
My arms are always really sore after cycling into town on my bike with non-solid handlebars.
This changes everything.
It will make cycling so much easier.