New York - May 19, 2009

The Fabulous Biker Boys

DIY Bicycles at Bamboo Bike Studio

Fat-bottomed girls will be riding today.

Lead the pack with your very own primo, totally sustainable, one-of-a-kind bicycle.

All it takes to join the luscious bunch is one weekend, a trip to Red Hook, and a thousand bucks (most of which goes toward financing a bike factory in Ghana).

No special skills are required at the Bamboo Bike Studio workshop, though it does help if you love pedaling and don’t mind getting your hands dirty. Classes are small (four to five people), and experts are on hand to help you assemble the N.J.-sourced bamboo components in two styles: local (for cruising around the park, picking up flowers at the market) or express (for the bike messenger in you).

Single speeds and stock geometries are offered, but fixed-gear enthusiasts, tiny clowns, and penny farthing types can request addendums for their two-wheeled joyriders.

It’s all in the way you frame it.

For more information, go to bamboobikestudio.com. For information about the cause, go to bamboobike.org.