Bamboo Pro Road in Cycling Weekly

This is a really tasty bike… if you’re a panda. That’s just one of the cruel jokes cracked at the Calfee’s expense since it arrived at the office.

Don’t laugh: bamboo, a type of grass, has good vibration-damping properties, it is very stiff and very tough. It won’t go soggy if ridden in the rain because it is coated in satin polyurethane. To stop it splitting the tubes are smoked and heat treated. The lugs are made of hemp fibre.

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