Wanganui City College technology students had a rare treat on Tuesday - seeing a cardboard motorcycle ridden in their classroom.
The bike, constructed by WelTEC engineering students Dominic Furket, Joseph Sherman-Mendez, Matt Ward and Glen Northcott is powered by hand drills and driven by wooden gears.
Mr Furket said the project was set by tutor Rudi Zettler and the brief was to create the bike from cardboard and power it to travel for a distance of five metres.
"We spent 80 hours putting it together using a hot glue gun and pva glue to stick it all together."
Teammate Sherman-Mendez said the shape of the bike was inspired by the movie Tron and shapes were cut out using knives and scissors.