What propelled you to build bamboo bicycles?
I had heard about bamboo bikes being built in Africa as a community development project. While I was doing my studies, a lightbulb went on in my head. The bicycle is arguably the most efficient machine man ever created and absolutely the greenest transportation vehicle. I was never really a racer biker, I was more of a lifestyle biker. I’d use it to get from point A to B, my bikes being the everyday commuter-type. Upon learning that it could be made of bamboo, it all just connected and made sense in my head: it was the perfect trifecta of green product, green building material, and sustainable livelihood development. The Philippines is abundant with bamboo; there is a rampant transportation and mobility issue, as well as a poverty problem, yet there is so much under-utilised talent and manpower with a large percentage of the population in need of jobs.