Bamboo Bicycles Beijing (BBB) team member Luo Mingning (center) rides a bamboo bike kitted out with a bamboo sidecar while goofing around with a boy playing in a Beijing hutong
BBB founder David Wang poses with the bamboo bicycle he crafted in 2013, the first one he ever made
Bamboo Bicycles Beijing founder David Wang selects bamboo to make a bicycle frame
An American university student volunteer struggles to assemble the front wheel of a bicycle
Wang (center) and two team members work together to revise a PowerPoint presentation that will be used at an upcoming session
Wang (right) and BBB team members Claudio Rebuzzi (left) and Luo Mingning show off bamboo bikes in a Beijing alley
Wang (right) talks with students who joined a BBB volunteer program during summer break
Wang torches bamboo while making a bicycle frame at the BBB studio
Bamboo must be polished before it is used in a bike frame