Building a treadmill desk

[Ghoulish Delight]

Bamboo's pretty soft (carbonized even moreso) and scratches easily. Might not be the best choice for a dance/dojo floor.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Bamboo's pretty soft (carbonized even moreso) and scratches easily. Might not be the best choice for a dance/dojo floor.

Agreed. The carbonized bamboo, while a pretty color, is right out.

However the strand-woven varitety might do well:

Originally Posted by Bamboo FAQ

Strand-woven bamboo is manufactured differently than traditional bamboo flooring. In the strand-woven process, strips of bamboo are coated with resins and then compressed with heat to form timbers. These timbers are then milled into flooring. This process produces bamboo flooring that is twice as hard as traditional bamboo flooring.

But it probably loses some of the beauty.

Then again, given my apparent proclivity for clumsiness, the somewhat softer flooring might be just the ticket...

On a side note:

I went to have a look at the room today. I'd not been down there in months. The cats on the other hand appear to have been down there on a fairly regular basis. Blech! Bad Kitties! No matter what I decided to go with flooring wise, the carpet that is there now HAS GOT TO GO!