Cardboard bicycle could change the world?

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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.

"When we started, a year and a half or two years ago, people laughed at us, but now we are getting at least a dozen e-mails every day asking where they can buy such a bicycle, so this really makes me hopeful that we will succeed," he said.

Nimrod Elmish, Gafni's business partner, said cardboard and other recycled materials could bring a major change in current production norms because grants and rebates would only be given for local production and there would be no financial benefits by making bicycles in cheap labor markets.



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[seand]

Thats before. Here's after.

On the serious tip. It doesn't rain much in Israel, does it?

[Eastcoast]

Compelling but I think we could use cardboard mosquito/malaria netting, cardboard condoms and cardboard water purification systems first.

Also shouldn't he be required to make cardboard helmet for safety's sake?

[Giavella Water]

Not to eager to by a cardboard bike from a guy named Nimrod.

[HogIslandGrip]

It's coated in resins and lacquer to make it weather resistant. This could be great for a bike share system, given it's low cost. I don't think I'd buy one for myself either, though.

[supersupper]

Not to eager to by a cardboard bike from a guy named Nimrod.

One Nimrod, grandson of Noah, built the Tower of Babel.

[StrangeTanks]

I still like my carbon fiber better....

[Dolemite]

America, F*ck Yeah! We have bikes that cost 10x more than your annual income! We rule!