With manufacturers seeking to build bicycles from the most modern materials like carbon fiber, titanium, and high-grade aluminum, you can understand my amazement when I found myself staring back at an ...

After we took a look at the quite-expensive-bicycle of the future last week, here’s a new interesting project that can be done at home with a minimal set of tools and under $100. It’s called the Hoopy ...

Yes, you read that right; Italian cycling startup Ornus is betting big on wood to be the next big material innovation for their new line of high-performance gravel bikes. By combining “the strength of ...

Just over six months after making a joke bet in his front garden, Michael Thompson has lived up to his idle boast of being able to make anything out of wood. Unlike other bike designs where wood is ...

PORTLAND – In his Southeast Portland workshop, Ken Wheeler makes serious road, touring and mountain bikes – out of wood. Skeptical engineers and cyclists scoff at the idea, but Wheeler and his company ...

Wood is making a comeback in several engineering and manufacturing areas, from skyscrapers to bicycles. Two-wheeled wooden transport is going from purely a novelty to serious manufacturing as more ...

Update (Feb. 2020): New Atlas understands Renovo Hardwood Bicycles (not to be confused with Renovo Motors) is no longer in business. Back in the 1700s before strong, lightweight metals were available, ...

Maybe it’s the craze for sustainable products, or just retro-hipsterism gone amok. But whatever the reason, wooden bikes are gaining in popularity. They’re not rickety, jury-rigged jobs either.

DENVER, CO - Connor Wood Bikes partnered with Louisville Slugger to build a custom wood bike from its American white ash wood baseball bat billets, the lumber blanks from which bats are turned. Named ...

Those who appreciate both fine Scotch and cycling (though hopefully not at the same time) finally have a way to marry their two pleasures in the form of the Glenmorangie Original by Renovo bicycle.

Three years ago, we caught a glimpse of the "Woody" bike owned by Iran Mestas of Chino Hills, California. Iran has come a long way since then, redoing his pieces to make one of the top bikes in the ...