The Story of a Hemp Bicycle and a Bamboo Bike Bus
source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/hemp-bicycle-and-bamboo-bike-bus.php
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Onyx Composites is the brainchild of German engineer Nicolas Meyer. He takes hemp fibre, dunks it in epoxy resin and wraps it around a core of styrofoam. Apparently the resulting frame is about Sixty percent hemp, 15 percent bamboo and the rest is carbon and aluminum," he tells Spiegel, although that figure seems to neglect the foam inner.
Anyhow Meyer then gets a 1.4 kg (3 lb) racing bike frame, which he maintains is sturdier than even a bamboo or carbon fibre equivalent.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/hemp-bicycle-and-bamboo-bike-bus.php
Anyhow Meyer then gets a 1.4 kg (3 lb) racing bike frame, which he maintains is sturdier than even a bamboo or carbon fibre equivalent.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/hemp-bicycle-and-bamboo-bike-bus.php
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davzap
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If hemp had not been banned many innovations like this bike would have already been part of society. This is a great revitalization of hemp, historically valued by our country's true patriot forefathers like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln and Henry Ford.
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