At the Stanley Cycle Show in November 1894 the Bamboo Cycle Co. Ltd. had presented the first bamboo bike as „the most elegant machine on the market, and up to date in any respect“. It immediately became the sensation of the bicycle exhibition and the news about it also electrified the bicycle enthusiasts and technology fans in Klagenfurt, Austria. It was mainly Franz Grundner, Otto Lemisch and Karl Bräuer who succeeded in bringing bamboo bicycles to series maturity in the following two years, acquiring the necessary international patents and establishing a company with a production facility.1898 the company already had 63 employees and supplied over distribution partners and the just emerging catalog sales many European countries. In this period also falls the race of inventors in England, the USA and Austria, who all submitted patents for bamboo bicycles. Out of this wealth of ideas, the book highlights those that, in conjunction with digital manufacturing techniques and new materials, are now capable of building low-maintenance and sustainable bicycles.weiterlesen