He seems to have managed fairly well. One of the nicest aspects of the design is just how much of the bike is made from wood—even the saddle is hand-crafted from a lump of beech.

Drawing upon Thonet’s history of quality, bentwood furniture, Andy Martin has developed a beautiful, sweeping bike frame made from steamed beech wood. The contours of the body were cut and ...

Woods Steamed beech Padouk The design Required dimensions Seat tube length: 0.68 cm Seat tube angle: 66-70 degrees Inner diameter bicycle rim The rim word made up of 4 different segments.