if you pass through the Suzhou Industrial Park, you will have a chance to see a young man, pedaling a strange bamboo bike. Yesterday, the modern express reporter contacted the young man. His name was Qi Zhao, 24 years old. He was IT male. What a young man loves most is not a keyboard, but a carpenter. The bamboo bicycle that he rode was homemade and became the most important means of transportation for half a year. By chance, Qi Zhao saw the message of "riding a friend" about the Americans making bamboo bicycles.
Qi Zhao and his homemade bamboo bike
he sprout the idea of doing a bamboo bike. Using bamboo to make a frame, plus two wheels, although the process is simple, it is very complicated to do. Qi Zhao took a disused bicycle of his friend as a "prototype" and began to move. He searched all over the website to find out the unique "Qi style assembly mode".
he graduated from mechanical engineering, drawing the blueprint first. Then they entered the grinding process, and qighao revised and changed, often busy until late at night. Part of the frame is made of bamboo and bamboo, which is made of hemp fiber, and then a layer of glass fiber is added to make it stronger. He bought parts on Taobao and painted the car with paint again. In January 2015, his first DIY bamboo bicycle was born, which cost 2000 yuan. As long as weather permits, Qi rode to and from work, a round-trip 16 kilometers. Every time a red light stops, passers-by will cast a surprised look, and the driver will roll down the window and ask.
in March of this year, Qi Zhao set up "BBS studio", "BBS" is the abbreviation of bamboo bicycle studio (bamboo bike workshop), teaching people to do it. Many of the fans have custom made bamboo bicycles. Recently, Qi and his friends are planning to run on the big campuses, save the abandoned old bicycles, and transform them into bamboo bicycles to make the best use of them.