{"id":779,"date":"2009-06-22T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:40:43","slug":"sustainable-bike-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/news\/sustainable-bike-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Bike Tours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Ivan, sent me a link to an extraordinary story about a bike made from bamboo.\u00a0 Or rather, I should say a story about an extraordinary bike, made from bamboo.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at this <a title=\"An amazing bike, made from bamboo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/jun\/22\/bamboo-bike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article <\/a>in a Guardian blog, by Matthew Sparkes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-785\" title=\"Craig Calfe's bamboo bike\" src=\"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/a-craig-calfee-bamboo-bike.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Calfee's bamboo bike\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the comments related to its price of \u00a33,000.  If you want to have a look at what else Calfee Design do, here&#8217;s their <a title=\"Calfee Design&#039;s website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calfeedesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How long until we&#8217;re using bamboo bikes in France and Italy on our bike tours?  Goodness knows, but I doubt I&#8217;ll live to see it (and certainly not at \u00a33,000 a pop!)  Good luck to Craig, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Ivan, sent me a link to an extraordinary story about a bike made from bamboo.\u00a0 Or rather, I should say a story about an extraordinary bike, made from bamboo. Have a look at this article in a Guardian blog, by Matthew Sparkes. Most of the comments related to its price of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-business-of-running-a-travel-company"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}