Cardboard Bikes Are HERE! -- Man Invents Cardboard Bicycle

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What if it rains, you say?

In testing the durability of the treated cardboard, Gafni said he immersed a cross-section in a water tank for several months and it retained all its hardened characteristics. Once ready for production, the bicycle will include no metal parts, even the brake mechanism and the wheel and pedal bearings will be made of recycled substances, although Gafni said he could not yet reveal those details due to pending patent issues.


Gafni owns several top-of-the-range bicycles which he said are worth thousands of dollars each, but when his own creation reaches mass production, it should cost no more than about $20 to buy. The cost of materials used are estimated at $9 per unit.



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yea its been known for a while now that you can make a bike out of shyt like bamboo. How he has this shyt maintain its material properties in the rain leaves me :ohhh:
 

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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
It's going to sell like crazy in Asia and Europe, here in America people are too stupid to really appreciate the engineering that went into it. The $20 price tag will be seen as it being cheap and low quality.

That said, it's probably just a cruiser, can't see how it would hold up to 200-240lbs people standing up and powering up hills.
 
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thats a really dope idea.. props to that man.. but, like Malta just said- Americans will find some way to hate on it..

I'd cop one on principle alone..
 
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