damn. wish i could do this......a house rewire is going to sop up all my extra cash for fall though.
2010-08-20 16:38:18
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Bamboo Bike Workshop in the Strip District!
In conjunction with the Society for Contemporary Craft’s (SCC) exhibition DIY: A Revolution in Handicrafts (September 10, 2010 - March 26, 2011), SCC is excited to announce a special weekend-long workshop in our Studio with Ben Masters of Brooklyn-based Bamboo Bike Studio to be held Saturday and Sunday, October 23 and 24 from 9am-5pm each day. Students can into class on Saturday and ride out on Sunday on their own custom-built bamboo bicycle.
One weekend is all it takes to fabricate a frame from bamboo, assemble the components, and roll away with a bike tuned to your body and personal cycling style. The cost of the class, $948 per person including materials, directly supports the Bamboo Bike Studio’s efforts to open the first bamboo bike factory in Ghana, where reliable and cheap bicycle transportation can dramatically improve access to jobs, commerce, education, basic food and water resources.
The Bamboo Bike Studio was founded to harness the possibility of self-propulsion to developing nations around the world, beginning with Ghana and Kenya. Workshop instructor Ben Masters graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. After college, he served in the Peace Corps for three years in Zambia; taught English in Japan and worked at a Kids Camp in Hawaii. An avid cyclist, in 2009 Masters made a conscience decision to advance cycling as a form of transportation in America and began his “Year by Bicycle.”
To reserve a spot in the workshop email bikes@bamboobikestudio.com or call 732.207.9966. Space is very limited, however if there is great enough interest we can host another workshop.
SCC offers cutting edge exhibitions. Located at 2100 Smallman Street in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, PA, hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. Exhibitions and informal, hands-on art activities in the Drop-In Studio are always free to the public. For more information, visit www.contemporarycraft.org or call 412.261.7003. Join us online! Visit facebook.com/SCCPgh or search for SCCraft on Twitter.
2010-08-20 14:51:13
I wish I had the funds to do this as well. Someday.
In the meantime in the shameless plug department you can read all about the Bamboo Bike Studio in a back issue of Urban Velo: http://www.urbanvelo.org/issue18/p58-59.html
2010-08-20 17:57:17
this reminds me that i need to respond to some of the people on craigslist about some bamboo. (for bike polo mallets)
2010-08-21 00:25:22