Growing Bicycles

DIYers come from as far away as the United Kingdom to make bamboo bikes in this Brooklyn studio.

By Jon Kalish

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Photography by Christian Hansen

On a cold weekday morning, two of the three young men who run the Bamboo Bike Studio (bamboobikestudio.com) leave the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and drive a battered Toyota to New Jersey.

Bicycle makers Sean Murray, 27, and Justin Aguinaldo, 26, are embarking on one of their periodic bamboo harvests in the small sedan that belongs to the third member of the studio, Marty Odlin, who can’t make the trip. Odlin has a day job managing the sustainable engineering laboratory at ...

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