For their entry into the Juicy Ideas Entrepreneurial/Environmental Contest, a team of four industrial design majors at Appalachian State University reCYCLEd some plastic bottles. By melting down bottles, and I mean a lot of bottles, and fabricating them into the double-diamond shape of the traditional bicycle frame, they created a clean mode of transportation while also cleaning up campus. Not bad for a night’s work.
The Juicy Ideas contest is a design competition in which college students from across the United States compete to create something of value from an item that is typically thrown away as trash. Students at the alpine academy won first prize for their mountain bike.
Although, I’m not too sure I’d want to spin its wheels on singletrack. Watch below the video of the bike’s manufacture, set to the rockin’ rhythms of the Top Gun Anthem.
