Bikes from boxes Don't throw out that cardboard box the delivery
guy just dropped off. You might want to turn it into a bicycle.
An Israeli inventor didn't think that idea is as ridiculous as
it may sound. So after a lot of trial and error, he's done just
that. And he believes his cardboard bicycle just might change
the world. Izhar Gafni spent years trying to develop cardboard
strong enough and durable enough to be turned into a bike,
Reuters reports —a bike with absolutely no metal parts and tires
that can't puncture. But achieving that technological
breakthrough, he and his business partner, Nimrod Elmish, say,
is just the start. The resulting 9-pound bicycle is assembled in
a way they claim will make local manufacturing—and
employment—more economical than using distant factories in
cheap-labor locales. The resulting bikes will sell for no more
than $20, and even that price is just so dealers can make some
money. In fact, many of the bikes could be given away for free
in poor areas, because government gran