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Cardboard bicycle

Bicycles created from cardboard

Cardboard bicycle
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Bicycles created from cardboard

A cardboard bicycle by Phil Bridges

A cardboard bicycle is a bicycle composed mostly of cardboard. Only prototypes have been made .{{cite news | access-date = 2013-01-26 | url-status = live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227215857/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/16/business/la-fi-tn-cardboard-bike-20121016 | archive-date=2012-12-27 | access-date = 2013-01-26}}{{cite web

Phil Bridge's prototype

In 2008, Phil Bridge created a cardboard bicycle as part of a three-year degree course in Product Design at Sheffield Hallam University.{{cite web | archive-date = 2013-07-20 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130720201956/http://gizmodo.com/5020499/cardboard-bicycle-costs-just-30-dont-leave-it-out-in-the-rain | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2014-05-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140513205903/http://www.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/cardboard-bike-aims-put-brakes-thieves | url-status = dead

Izhar Gafni's prototype

I.G. Cardboard Technologies cardboard bicycle.

In 2012, Izhar Gafni, an Israeli mechanical engineer and cycling enthusiast,{{cite web Gafni has been trying to raise $2 million on Indiegogo to fund the project. As of 25 June 2013, he had raised $10 thousand. The campaign has ended with a total of $40,107 raised.

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