Israeli engineer Izhar Gafni did not set out to create a bike from cardboard back in 2009.
Instead, what he was doing was sitting in a library designing a machine that would pick the seeds from pomegranates when his mind began wandering about (as all minds bored of pomegranate seeds extracting machines must do), until it finally settled on a memory of him doing his favorite thing, riding a bike.
He started thinking about the forms of bikes that he liked (bamboo frames) and how expensive they were to own, until a very interesting idea popped into his head, "Why not make a bike from cardboard?"
So, armed with nothing more than a vision, Gafni spent 2-years (and $250,000) to create an actual bike that worked.
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