Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fgcrimea/

Perfect

Cheers, that gallery is full of lovely rats.

The above's a pair of mtb pedals/ straps away from perfect for me.

Bonus points for not feeling the need to remove the unused rotor.

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^ with not a huge amount of work that would be a pretty nice looking bike!

awesome dog

do you know what breed it is?

I have no idea. A brief search leads me to think that it looks like some kind of nepalise/Indian mountain dog but really have no clue.

It reminds me of a Tibetan mastiff but I'm pretty sure it isn't one.

das GT

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The dog looks like a chow-chow

I should have kept that one...

its not mine, it belong to a messenger dude in fista.

Looks like a Chow to me.

OG fista "buy beer to the garage bike"

@bankiren what brand make this rack?

swedish bullshit brand "kronan"

http://www.kronan.com/sv/en/cykel

695kr for the rack, 51.31 GBP

Thanks :)

That is a horrible construction for a front rack though. Please consider something that is supported from the axel of the front wheel.

You can't support this from axle as it is bolted to frame so it doesn't turn with bars hence the stem height... As long as the rack is rigid/strong it's effective - kronan aren't known for making stuff light so I'm guessing it's up to the job

It is still a horrible way of distributing the forces on to the frame. To make the rack strong enough to work like this, they over dimensioned the steel tubing and brackets. It is much to heavy when compared to actual carrying abilities.
Better off getting a Cetma cargo rack for utility duty or Soma or VO Porteur for looks...

Unfortunately in Poland we have only Basil "racks" and stuff like that, so it's quite difficult to buy anything... and import stuff like Cetma or VO is pricey.

Swedish postie bikes use the same way of mounting the front rack as the kronan does and they are pretty much bombproof..

bombproof ≠ fun to ride

Agreed, had one of those racks on my bike for a day and promptly took it off.

Heavy as hell and the fact that it doesn't turn with your bars means you can't really put stuff on the rack or otherwise you'll steer into it. You also can't really mount a brake since the cable will be in the way of the rack (at least in my situation).