Bamboo bikes, odd, linky

Good stuff in this thread. My Uni had a visit from Lotus who had made car panels and interior parts from hemp fibres in some sort of resin. I suppose bamboo is more useful for something that needs a lot of tensile strength because the fibres themselves are very long. I guess they weave it into some sort of mat and lay it up like carbon fibre.

I've read that natural bamboo frames ride really well, a bit like carbon frames but with a little more flex. I wonder how that engineered frame handles.

I'm disappointed to see how heavy it is.

Here's the manufacturer's website which has some nice accessories too
http://www.organicbikes.com/about.html

The other bamboo bike I was reading about was the Masuelli All Black, RRP 1200 as a complete bike. It uses natural bamboo tubes rather than engineered bamboo. Cycling Plus magazine gave it a 6/10 and said that the frameset was excellent but let down by poor components. And it's pretty light too, at 8.3kg tested weight for complete bike.
http://masuelli.com/ although annoyingly the model tested doesn't seem to be on the website.

Here's another website about bamboo bikes
http://www.rawbamboobikes.co.uk/