When most people think of bicycle frames, they have in mind materials running the gamut of aluminum, chrome-moly steel and carbon fiber. Not so a timber technology student in Germany. For his two-wheeled creation, he turned to the beech tree.
More specifically, Jens Eichler got himself some sheets of beech plywood, along with a strong glue (
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