Meanwhile, in Louis’ studio in Charente …
During this time, in Saint-Maurice-des-Lions, in this workshop that he has set up in his family home, Louis makes bicycles with bamboo as the main material. It can take up to 200 hours to build a bicycle. Louis has just started his workshop while continuing to work in an engineering firm. “The objective is all the same to succeed in selling it and to succeed in making a living from it, knowing that I still think that today, unfortunately, it is not easy to make a living from craftsmanship in France.“, he believes.
The first bamboo bicycle was patented at the end of the 19th century in England. In France, they appeared in the 1980s without ever being industrialized. Only a few craftsmen like Louis make them.
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