Maybe me with my pedantic appetite for weight reduction :)

Id love a bamboo flip front end with whitewalled moon discs and some dark red steelies showing their lips. Chrome protector strip all the way around topped off at the rear with bamboo boot. bamboo doorskins and roof lining 8*p

Jon some good info on its properties

Tommo can you make me some guards from the stuff?

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Not me thats for sure!

who would be the first to try a lightweight bamboo rollcage then?

The renewable car is now even closer!!! pity about the cotton industry killing off hemp as a viable alternative too!!!!

More bamboo info:

General:
http://bambus.rwth-aachen.de/eng/PDF- ... perties%20of%20bamboo.pdf

A Thesis on physical, chemical and mechanical properties of bamboo and potential use in fibre board (very nerdy!!)

http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd ... nrestricted/Li_thesis.pdf

Bamboolzed!!!

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for technical data sheets for bamboo contact the manufacturer

if you do find a contact address for mother nature do let us know

Can only imagine that stuff in a crash... wouldn't rust though.

i work building carbon fiber race yachts (builders wild oats and the fastest race yachts in the world) and i am pretty sure i can say we have never even thought about using it due to the fact that carbon is so much easier to use in forming shapes and such becasue if bamboo was easy to use im sure we or some one say boeing would be using it today i personally thing alot of its strength comes from its shape if you get some technical data sheets D im sure i could be able to compare them to carbon

Hey guys I make fibreglass garage doors for a living. And this bamboo concept looks very intresting. Ill try and play around with it a bit, now just to get hold of some bamboo!

yeah forgot about the hemp beast from ford!!! its on youtube.
How cool would bamboo fibre look unpainted on your guards, bonnet, boot and maybe door skins :)

i would love the contrast between painted steel, wood grain and watanabes :)))

http://www.bamboosurfboardshawaii.com/surfboards.html