‘Growing’ bikes a bam-booming industry

Over six days in June, Josh Carnes pedaled 412 miles up and down Colorado’s high mountain passes on a road bike that handled with the traits of titanium, yet originated from a forest in coastal Mexico.

For the second straight year, the 33-year-old Windsor firefighter completed the Ride the Rockies tour on a bamboo bike frame, serving as ambassador-in-motion for Panda Bicycles, the Fort Collins maker of the bicycles.

“It’s got a really good ride,” said Carnes, of Panda’s Legacy road bike model, on which he’s logged 1,500-plus training and touring miles over the past year or so.…