Bambu Bicycles

Climate Friendly Travel

23-04-2023 • 27 mins

Today I’m delighted to be joined by Joana Saavedra who is the Co-Founder of BamBu Bicycles.

Joana and her brother Tiago had always dreamed of working together on an inspiring project. But it never crossed their minds that this opportunity would happen while living and working in China in 2018.

There, they became dazzled with bamboo, its astonishing benefits and all the possibilities to build anything with this beautiful and sustainable material. When they first discovered bamboo bicycles, they became amazed by their unique appearance, beautiful design, light weight and comfort to ride. Instantly, they fell in love with the idea of crafting their own bamboo bikes and being the first bike builders of these wonderful bikes in their home country of Portugal.

Inspired by the initiatives of INBAR to promote the economic, social and environmental benefits of these power plants, they decided to put their hands to work and bring to life their own bamboo bike company.

Since then, they’ve been crafting and refining their products with heart and soul to bring out the best bamboo bicycles nature can give.

I caught up with Joana to learn more about these amazing bicycles and just how and why they came up with such an incredible and novel concept.

Huge thanks again to Joana for sharing her insights with us today, and if you’d like to learn more about BamBu Bicycles, then please do visit bambu-bicycles.com

And you can join Joana, Bambu Bicycles and hundreds more like-minded individuals and organisations like by joining the Climate Friendly Travel movement and indeed become an ambassador by signing up to join The SunX Registry at , climatefriendly.travel or email us at info@thesunprogram.com

That’s our show for this week. Thanks so much for your company and remember, when it comes to Climate Friendly Travel, every small step forward, is giant stride when we all step together…

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