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Riding and creating

He went on stage a little shy, but soon the designer from Rio de Janeiro, Flávio Deslandes, loosened up in order to share with the audience of TEDx SP his invention. He has designed and idealized a bike made of bamboo. Actually, he has made more than ten types of bikes using native bamboo from Brazil, moved by the ideal to create an instrument that would strengthen the harmonious relationship between bikes and the city.

Living in Denmark since 2000, Flávio has developed a bike for the brand Biomega and submitted that to a resistance test, in which a bike is submitted to a force greater and greater, until it breaks. The machine performing the test broke before the bike did, a sign of work, dedication and research on the idea. In the process, the designer even created special machines and tools to work with the material. According to him, “it’s necessary to see Brazil’s riches and to work with them, because we have a lot of creative people with excellent labour skills”.

The interesting thing is to effectively see the will-power and effort turning ideas into something concrete, as in the case of the bamboo bike.

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