$20 Bike. Did I get your attention? Light as hell. No? Cardboard. Yes? That should do it.
Izhar Gafni, 50, has been working for a year and a half to find a way to fold, treat, and mass produce cardboards to make this hard-to-believe product. Reuters introduces him as an “amateur cycling enthusiast.” Figures, right?

The cardboard is essentially made out of wood pulp that can lose its structural integrity when exposed to moisture, but Gafni tested his treatment by submerging the product material under water for months and it amazingly retained its quality!

I’m sure many of you want to get your hands on this bike ASAP, as I do as well. I am also fascinated by how this changes the game yet again for what we consider as raw material for products that are usually made with metal or wood. (There will be no metal parts at all for the bike) We have seen how designers make cardboard furnitures with surprising structural strength, but in most cases, it was in the nature of a showcase or an experiment. Making this material waterproof & fireproof just might eliminate the barriers that keeps it from causing a huge disruption in consumer products. Imagine furnishing your house full of light-weight, cheap, and recyclable, and waterproof furnitures. And it wouldn’t take a village when you have to move!