This lightweight wood bicycle as well as wooden boats and caravans can be built by you at home. Woodenwidget sells comprehensive how-to guides for build your own boats, bicycles and more. Their latest design is Hoopy, a wooden bike that can be put together in just two days. The one size fits all ride has a seat that can be lowered or raised and can comfortably carry two people. The required parts can be found secondhand or recycled from old bikes. The wood bicycle also only weighs 3 kilos.
In addition to Hoopy, Woodenwidget offers a variety of lightweight items, including two different folding dinghies, a nesting dinghy, a folding canoe and a hard dinghy as well as a two berth folding bike caravan.
What's Driving This Trend
- DIY Wooden Bicycles
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Provide DIY kits for building wooden bicycles to eco-conscious consumers.
- Portable Wooden Boats
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create easy-to-assemble, portable wooden boats for outdoor enthusiasts.
- Wooden Camper Vans
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a market for self-assembly, lightweight wooden camper vans that appeal to minimalists and van-life enthusiasts.
Who This Affects Most
- Recreational Equipment
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Tap into the growing market of eco-friendly, sustainably produced recreational equipment that can be assembled at home.
- DIY Home Improvement
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Capitalize on the popularity of DIY home improvement projects by offering comprehensive how-to guides for building sustainable, eco-friendly items from scratch.
- Outdoor Adventure
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Leverage the demand for sustainable outdoor gear by creating lightweight, portable equipment that is self-assembly and eco-friendly.
