Kuyichi is always looking out for innovative solutions to design a greener, sustainable world.

Like this one, we bumped in earlier!

As Kuyichi HQ is located in the green Dutch town of Haarlem, most of our employees come around by bike.

Now for the hardcore-bikers, there's the dual bike JANO, a bicycle built for lively and spirited biking, for fitness or simply for the daily ride to the office.

Austrian desgin student Roland Kaufmann, built this plywooden designer bike, inspired on his love for wooden kayaks!

In Holland, we all know the first bikes we're built from wood. Since then, most are made of steel nowadays. The funnier, to see a foreigner that reintroduces this recycle-wood solution for such an elemental thing as the bike.

check the storage space for your handbag – inside the wooden frame!
Cool. Keep the Style_Conscious!

Get the facts

Wood is...
up to 10 times stiffer than fibreglass
nearly 6 times stiffer than a kevlar/epoxy composite

Technical specs of JANO

* plywood frame
* maintainance free belt drive system
* hub gear shift
* low resistance hub dynamo
* frame integrated head- and rear lights [leds]
* attachable frame bag and luggage carrier
* optional mudguardsand

Read the full review at Treehugger's, or check the designer's homepage here.

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