Talk:Cardboard bicycle

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Citation overkill
12 footnotes for the first cited sentence are unnecessary. See Citation overkill. And those I checked all relied on the original Reuters report. Is there any reason why 11 of them cannot be deleted? Kablammo (talk) 02:01, 4 February 2013 (UTC)


 * My thoughts exactly. Didn't even bother reading the article and sorry I clicked on it at all. Overwhelmed by the citations, I assume it's just a wikiprank. --68.107.136.157 (talk) 04:30, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Phil Bridge Bike: Waterproof?
The article states that his bike is not waterproof, but the source it cites for this actually says the opposite (despite making a lot of jokes about rain). Under the subheading "Won't it go soggy in the rain?" it quotes Bridge as saying "No it’s inherently waterproof at the point of manufacture and it's been used in outdoors." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilikeimac (talk • contribs) 21:24, 29 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Fixed. -AndrewDressel (talk) 16:16, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Type of cardboard used
The current wikilink to Cardboard (paper product), which defines it as "a heavy-duty paper of various strengths, ranging from a simple arrangement of a single thick sheet of paper to complex configurations featuring multiple corrugated and uncorrugated layers," is our best bet. I don't know what further clarification could be made, especially in the first sentence. Corrugated fiberboard is inappropriate because it is defined narrowly to consist "of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards," and it can be clearly seen in Izhar Gafni's video that he is not using such a material, but he doesn't say what it is. Phil Bridges specifically states that corrugated cardboard "wasn’t strong enough." Also, it is clear from Izhar Gafni's video that he uses multiple types of cardboard: something structured for the core, and then something else for the edging. Thus, it is unlikely that a single word or even phrase will be more appropriate in the first sentence, even if the available sources revealed exactly what has been used so far in the existing prototypes, and the current, simple "cardboard" is the best. -AndrewDressel (talk) 13:19, 5 September 2013 (UTC)