We’ve been working for a long time on making the benefits of bike making more accessible… in Brooklyn, San Francisco, at schools or communities where we are building factories.
Fulfilling this mission takes a lot of people and a lot of work… there are so many problems big and small we need to solve, that we’ve arranged the Studio into a solution factory.
Every weekend, after the last bike rolls away and Justin and Fence eat pulled pork sandwiches at the Ice House, we switch into development mode.
In development mode, we pull our outstanding projects from under the workbenches and turn into a brainstorming/prototyping/fabricating whirlwind, getting as much accomplished as we can Monday through Thursday (making a horrific mess). On Friday, we clean up and get ready for the following workshop.
Our projects take us from material testing, sourcing, tool fabrication, alternative teaching techniques, bike geometries, destructive testing and finding lower cost and more effective ways to put the bikes together.
Justin is really the engine that makes this run. He’s totally split between running the workshop and pushing development. It’s a tough row to hoe, but he’s got the energy and talent to pull it off, week in and week out.
My name is Marty Odlin, I am the cofounder of the Bamboo Bike Studio.
I also do work on the Bamboo Bike Project and at the Center for Sustainable Engineering at Columbia University.
I like surfing, skiing, camping, fishing, and building things with my friends.
The Studio is about sharing our experiences and passion for building with like minded and interested people.
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