The £10 cardboard bicycle you CAN ride in the rain | Mail Online

The £10 cardboard bicycle that could revolutionise third world transport. It is coated with a waterproof resin to protect it in the rain.

  It is covered with a waterproof resin then painted.

That means it could become a cheap form of transport in rural Third World regions as well as being the ultimate green machine.

Israeli-based engineer Izhar Gafni now has financial backing from a company called ERB which is an active partner in managing all the business and financial aspects of this project.

Izhar got the idea after he heard about a man who had built a cardboard canoe.

He said thinking about a canoe which was waterproof and could hold a man, made him imagine a bike.

He made a prototype able to support a rider’s weight and able to be pedaled and steered just like a normal machine,

But he admitted: 'It looked like a packing case on wheels. 

'Not a bicycle.'

He want back to the drawing board and came up with his finished model.

He said: 'Like Henry Ford who made the car available to anybody, this bike is going to be cheap and available to any child in the world, including children in Africa who walk dozens of miles to school every day.'

A special coating means the bicycle can be ridden in the rain without the water reaching the cardboard core of the design.

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