Fact is stranger than fiction

the wooden bike is excellent - a kid at a British school made something similar with a wooden sprocket and chain, I remember trying to get pictures of it when I worked somewhere else

If memory serves someone also made a 'functional' cardboard bike too a few years back

yeah what happened to that..at one point i thought they were going to start selling them.. i would have got one for sure, looked like fun, except in the rain

Weird and wonderful home-made bikes are all well and good, but its not like anyone's ever going to set the World Hour record on one, is it?

a friend of mine once made a bike out of old tubing, but because he didnt have a welder he hammered the tube ends flat, drilled holes and then bolted the whole shebang together.. it rode okay, but i never felt that 'safe' on it..

A kid I knew once made his own super extended forks for his bike. It looked interesting but creaked when you rode it and I never felt safe on that thing. I remember seeing images of a bike built from plywood - interesting material with a high strength/low weight and it was used to good effect in the WWII DH Mosquito bomber/fighter bomber.