Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

The bars are quite wide, but I thought it was best to be conservative with my choppping first time round and then see how I felt rather than getting saw happy straight away and then coming to regret it.

The Frog's aesthetic appeal is debatable, sometimes I really like it but in that DS pic it looks rank. That's definitely function > form

alibi that bike is sick

Would you ever sell that Alibi? i do like the red bits

This Bianchi belongs to this thread:

Lovely little rat Harry Quinn in classifieds at the moment.

If only the ST was just a bit longer, I'd snap that up.

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Spotted in Wandsworth - I mean ... why would you... I mean come on surely... what?

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Brilliant. Maybe he was a bus driver filling a void in his present life.

Should also be fun to do some counter-steering action on it :)

Just found the operational instructions

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You needed instructions?

^ haha

I have had so many ratty bikes! This was my beater in Melbourne, with the biggest tyres I could (barely) fit in there, because tram tracks:

Believe it or not, it didn't rub.

This is the evolution of my UK rat bike. I just wanted a cheap, practical commuter, that would ride well, but nobody would bother stealing.

Original bike:

After stripping and modifications:

After a few months use:

In touring mode:

I'll take an up to date photo of it come time. I'm a bike mechanic by trade, and it rides like a dream, but I've also left it in Ipswich town centre, unlocked for a week, and it was still there when I got back!

Lovely little rat Harry Quinn in classifieds at the moment.

Rides like a dream too, really dont want to sell her.

^^ That is dope.

Not strictly a rat bike, but built out of a lot of retro 90s MTB parts I found in my bike dungeon. IMHO the best looking minimalist MTB frame ever made and one of the most fun bikes to ride (pavements can be your friend on this little number. More rigid and unforgiving than a kick in the nuts

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Your bike dungeon must be friggin awesome if that lot was in it!

rad! dibs when you sell please :)

High res photos here

Remember seeing this pic when I first got into fixed gears. Such a cool bike. I'd still love to own a champion mondial.

Is it sad that i know exactly who's bike that is.

From the Cine/Vig/Mash thread

Is it sad that i know exactly who's bike that is.

Everyone knows whose bike that is