Kostas Koutrakis has been working with the wood since he was 12; the culmination of his carpentry career is a fully functional wooden eco-bike that's nice to ride. His career began in 1969, when he started off as a cabinetmaker, producing furniture for customers. Now he's into making wooden bikes, rolling his first model out of his workshop in 2012; a beautiful, varnished, no-gear bike, weighing only 13kg and which he insists is more flexible than and just as sturdy as a metal equivalent.

"Every Friday, I do about 70km with a cyclists group called Freeday. Some of the others remark that my bike is so nice that, apart from wanting to take it for a spin, they'd like to hang it up in their living room as a decoration," he says.

Enet.gr: On your wooden bike!