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Bicycle constructed from plastic or a plastic composite

A plastic bicycle is a bicycle constructed from plastic or a plastic composite material, rather than from metal. In the 1970s and early 1980s, experimental plastic bicycles were developed and the Itera was produced in significant numbers, but they failed commercially.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Itera plastic bicycle
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Racerbyce assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

A plastic bicycle is a bicycle constructed from plastic or a plastic composite material, rather than from metal. In the 1970s and early 1980s, experimental plastic bicycles were developed and the Itera was produced in significant numbers, but they failed commercially.2

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