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Bamboo is so 2012
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Cardboard is 1950s.
Steel is timeless...
Posted 12 years ago # -
It'll be frames custom-grown from structural proteins next, or perhaps chitin.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Steel is timeless...
Until it rusts.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Steel? Hah! You young guns don't know how lucky you are. Back in my day we had to walk on our hands to the local bronze mine and dig a hole with a spoon to extract the ore. Next we refined it by burning our own skin as fuel and using our hands as the molten metal trough. We brazed the tubes using metal extracted from our own dental fillings. Those bronze frames were built to last, unlike these silly 'aero' steel frames you get nowadays!
On a slightly more serious note I predict aerogels will at some point be used to build frames. As well as making carbon fibre look like Neutronium (look it up!) they also make your bike transparent and thus less likely to be stolen - or more likely to get lost, depending on your perspective.
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Posted 10 years ago #
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I increasingly wear bamboo: https://bambooclothing.co.uk/
Their original fitted boxers are my cycling underwear of choice and amazing classic bamboo socks my default socks.
Oh, if anyone places an order, feel free to mention that I recommended them to you - there is a box at check-out. My email is my username with "_uk@yahoo.co.uk" appended!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Bamboo pants?? Do you not get splinters in you ....aherm.... wotsit??
Posted 10 years ago # -
@DaveC not yet... Comfiest underwear and socks I've worn!
Posted 10 years ago # -
I hope I'm not the only person who thought 'is that bamboo in your boxers, or are you just pleased to see me?'
Posted 10 years ago # -
@allebong Finally the "bikes are invisible" excuse comes one step closer to the truth!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Disappointed that said underwear does not appear to be constructed in the Japenese bamboo armour style.
Also, going by the models they use I'm not sure I have the physique for making the jump to bamboo pants.
Posted 10 years ago #
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