Bamboo bicycles are currently in production for sale in both domestic and foreign markets. In third world countries such as Ghana and Ecuador bamboo bicycles are targeted to be an inexpensive and sustainable method of transportation. Prior technology uses a time and labor-intensive composite layup to join frame tubes. This project set out to improve the production method for these bicycles by developing a more efficient method to create the joints. The result was a thermoformed plastic shell bonded to the bamboo using short fiber reinforced epoxy. To facilitate production of the bicycle, fixturing and manufacturing procedures were also developed.

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Creator

• Hobin, Kyle Patrick
• Chan, Joshua K.
• Iordanou, Ero Ana

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042512-234329

Advisor

• Brown, Christopher A.

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright