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Ozon is a small team of Designers, Carpenters and Engineers who spend their free time designing and building bamboo bikes. We do it because we love it, and we will probably never stop.
Our History
Since 2009, Stefan Brüning, Daniel Vogel-Essex, Benjamin Drossel, Tobias Rudolph, Sebas Romero, Lukas Brunken, Rainer Pokoj, David Lohaus and many others have spend hundreds of hours designing, testing, CADing, cutting, sanding, glueing, sanding, sanding, making coffee, sanding, puttying, sanding, sanding, epoxying, sanding, varnishing and „schraubing“ to create some of the most beautiful and innovative bamboo bikes in the world.
From 2013-2019 we taught workshops from our cozy space at the BLO-Ateliers in Berlin, Lichtenberg. Around 200 beautifully detailed frames were built by ourselves and our customers. Over this time the bamboo bike building trend grew and grew, and we slowly realized that we had some of the best designs, and perhaps the most developed process, of any bamboo bike workshops in the world.
What we do now
While we still teach sometimes, our focus has shifted to providing support for other workshops and DIY enthusiasts. Slowly we are aggregating the mass of experience and knowledge developed since 2009 and are publishing this online. To accompany the technical drawings, we are also creating time-lapse instructional videos which will be published soon.
Us in the press
Sometime around 2014 we gave up trying to keep track of all the press. It didn’t stop, we just stopped updating this list. In the past couple of years we’ve been featured all over the world on television including Arte and the Associated press. We were in „Cycle“ and „Bike-Bild“ magazines at the same time in 2018. A photo of Dan with bad hair is also featured on the cover of a pamphlet about innovative companies in Berlin, Lichtenberg.
The best thing that happened though: Stefan’s roomate, who is Korean, was watching the mainstream Korean news on the internet one evening and saw a feature about Ozon and Stefan, who was sitting in the next room. He just about flipped his lid. None of us knew we would be on Korean mainstream news. That’s the Associated press, they work in mysterious ways.
Also super thanks to Jonny who made that killer video. I love it. He makes videos for big companies and famous people now, but sometimes he still finds time to grab a beer. Cheers Jonny!
- STERN Nr.35 08/2014: Sein&Haben, Biobikes, S.94
- handwerk-magazin.de 06/2014: Zweiradkonzept: Bambus für belastbare Bikes
- Handmade Kultur 05/2014: LABEL, Fahrräder aus Bambus, S.92
- Aktiv-Radfahren.de 01/2014: Wie grün geht es denn?
- iDNES.cz 08/2013: Kolo z bambusu
- Zeit Magazin 06/2013: Bambusrad: Von A nach B
- wired.it 05/2013: Come costruire una bici in bamboo
- Deutsche Welle 04/2013: Berlin Company helps customers build bamboo bikes
- Deutsche Welle 04/2013: How to make your own bamboo bike (Slideshow)
- Bambusbasis.de 04/2013: Bambus sorgt für Mobilität
- blog.zeit.de 04/2013: Bau dir dein Bambus-Bike
- greendelicious.de 03/2013: Berliner Fahrradschau 2013
- bambusexperte.wordpress.com 02/2013: Bambusfahrräder aus Berlin
- planet-wissen.de 11/2012: Bambus-Bikes aus Berlin
- fahrtwindberlin.de 10/2012: OZON CYCLERY BERLIN AUF TOUR
- fahrtwindberlin.de 10/2012: OZON BICYCLES + FAHRTWIND = BAMBUS LIEBE
- krosse.info 10 / 2012: Bambus-Bikes aus Berlin
- treehugger.com 09/2012: Bamboo Bicycles from the Ozon Cyclery in Berlin
- inhabitat.com 06/2012: Ozon Cyclery Builds Bamboo Bikes for Berlin’s Carbon-Conscious Commuters
- radreporter.de 05/2012: Bambusfahrräder aus Berlin
- thewashingmachinepost.net 05/2012: bicycles don’t just grow on trees you know
- thebirdwheel.com 05/2012: Making Bamboo Bikes in Berlin
- drunkcyclist.com 05/2012: Ozon Cyclery Bamboo Bikes
- fritz Radio Berlin 04/2012: Neue Ideen rund um’s Fahrrad
- moobicyclecoop.org 03/2011: Bangin’ Bamboo
- MANZINE 11/2011: Bamboo Bicycle Club
- wired.co.uk 05/2011: How to build a bamboo bike-frame
