You can build a bamboo bicycle. Join the growing community of earth conscious cyclists who share a passion for craftsmanship and quality. Pick your favorite bamboo bike frame design and let the dream become a reality.
Our bamboo bike vision
We want to make the art of bamboo bicycle building available to everyone. We especially love cargo bikes, because these simple, elegant machines have the potential to have a huge impact on our planet and the people in it.
Over a BILLION people in the world would benefit from owning a bicycle more than any other posession. These people can build their own bamboo cargobike from local material. The first step: having a tried-and-true design and the templates to produce it. This is the way we want to change the world.
All proceeds from the downloads of our geometry drawings go directly to developing and testing new bicycle designs. Please help us achieve our goal by purchasing a geometry drawing and spreading the word about Ozon. We are very excited to see where this project takes us and how many people’s lives we can change!
Designs and Jigs
Ozon Cyclery offers a library of exclusive bicycle designs that have been tested and proven. Each design is thoroughly defined down to the millimeter with detailed step-by-step technical drawings. These drawings can be used for your personal project, and we strongly encourage you to teach workshops to spread the art of bamboo bicycle building to your community.
The Ozon Cyclery framebuilding jig makes teaching workshops possible. It is inexpensive and can be shipped woldwide, allowing you to teach large groups with a small investment. We adapt the frame jig to every new component standard and create new bicycle designs to meet current trends. The jigs come configured to the Ozon design you choose, or can be reconfigured to build your own design. The jig is compatible with any 1:1 printout of any bicycle design. Hand-drawn or improvised geometry, tandems, fat bikes, and even cargobikes are possible with the Ozon frame jig.
Our History
Since 2009, Stefan Bruening, Daniel Vogel-Essex, Benjamin Drossel, Tobias Rudolph, Sebas Romero, Lukas Brunken, Rainer Pokoj, David Lohaus and many others have spend hundreds of hours designing, testing, CADing, cutting, sanding, glueing, sanding, sanding, making coffee, sanding, puttying, sanding, sanding, epoxying, sanding, varnishing and “schraubing” to create some of the most beautiful and innovative bamboo bikes in the world.
From 2013-2019 we taught workshops from our cozy space at the BLO-Ateliers in Berlin, Lichtenberg. Around 200 beautifully detailed frames were built by ourselves and our customers. Over this time the bamboo bike building trend grew and grew, and we slowly realized that we had some of the best designs, and perhaps the most developed process, of any bamboo bike workshops in the world.
While we still teach sometimes, our focus has shifted to providing support for other workshops and DIY enthusiasts. Slowly we are aggregating the mass of experience and knowledge developed since 2009 and are publishing this online. To accompany the technical drawings, we are also creating instructional videos which will be published soon.
Us in the press
Sometime around 2014 we gave up trying to keep track of all the press. In the past couple of years we’ve been featured all over the world on television including Arte and the Associated press. We were in „Cycle“ and „Bike-Bild“ magazines at the same time in 2018. A photo of Dan with bad hair is also featured on the cover of a pamphlet about innovative companies in Berlin, Lichtenberg.
The best thing that happened though: Stefan’s roomate, who is Korean, was watching the mainstream Korean news on the internet one evening and saw a feature about Ozon and Stefan, who was sitting in the next room. He just about flipped his lid. None of us knew we would be on Korean mainstream news. That’s the Associated press, they work in mysterious ways.
Also super thanks to Jonny who made that killer video. I love it. He makes videos for big companies and famous people now, but sometimes he still finds time to grab a beer. Cheers Jonny!
