A Woody Bike

We recently talked about Joe Harmon who, inspired by the 2nd World War airplanes, started a project that intended to create a car completely made by wood -- the Splinter. Marco Facciola, instead, intends to explore the wood properties applied to a bicycle construction.

Despite what you can imagine, Marco is just a 16 years old boy. But he is firmly resolute on solving the wood use problems. Beyond the conception obvious difficulties, there is still a need to think about solutions for the mechanical obstacles as the chains notion and the velocities system.

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