Another cardboard bike

[NotthatJasonKenny]

http://gizmodo.com/5942257/a-bike-this-cool-cant-possibly-be-made-from-cardboard-or-cost-10-to-make

Apparently they are looking for funding to make it. I've a tenner spare!

 

[Night Train]

$10 would get the materials. I doubt anyone would make it for only $10, even in a mass production factory.

 

[Chris S]

I wonder what would happen when it rained? I'm out.

 

[CopperCyclist]

Wasn't there an Eastern European car made from cardboard a while back... a Travant or something like that... I think they are resin coated for waterproofing.

I'd buy one as a 'cheap bike' if they could sell for Tesco bike prices!

 

[TheDoctor]

Wasn't there an Eastern European car made from cardboard a while back... a Travant or something like that... I think they are resin coated for waterproofing.

I'd buy one as a 'cheap bike' if they could sell for Tesco bike prices!

The Trabant, that was. Not cardboard as such, according to Wikipedia.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid/trunklid, bonnet/hood, bumpers/fenders and doors in Duroplast, a hardplastic similar to bakelite made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry