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The Grass Is Greener: Calfee Design Bamboo Fixed Gear

A Bamboo frame fixed gear bike by Calfee Design

The dust of the 2016 North American Handmade Bicycle Show has settled, and everyone involved is slowly getting back into routine. One of the more interesting bikes from the show was this bamboo Gates belt-driven fixed gear by California’s Calfee Design.

Calfee Manta

Calfee Manta

Why, after touting the comfortable qualities of his beautiful bamboo bikes, Craig Calfee decided to go and create a high calibre soft tail road bike, is hard to fathom. Probably because he can’t leave well enough alone. But there it is: the Calfee Manta, one of the most revolutionary carbon fiber frames to emerge from…

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