More... 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.' Israeli-based engineer Izhar Gafni riding his cardboard bicycle. The inventor now has backing to commercialise the prduct. Izhar Gafnisaid he got the idea after he heard about a man who had built a cardboard canoe. A spokesman for ERB said the Cardboard Bicycle can withstand water and humidity. He added that the bike looks like it is made out of hard lightweight polymer, but is stronger then carbon fiber and can carry riders weighing up to 220 kilograms. The estimated cost of making the bicycle is around 10. The spokesman said: 'The biggest challenge of the Cardboard Bike project was to learn and develop a whole new know-how of cardboard. 'The challenge was to take the cardboard material, and pass it through a set of treatments, to replace the raw materials of plastic, wood or metal. 'Nothing is impossible if you have patience and you are persistent.' The current prototype, the third, is known as Alfa and is made