Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Dirt is fine in my opinion as long as you properly maintain your bike (lube chain, bearings, etc).

Adds another layer (quite literally) to your rat bike! And yeah; using your bike day in and out can make it dirty quite quickly (especially in winter times and with the lovely weather we have up here).

Bartape stil looks awfully white though! By the way; is that Campagnolo EPS? Dang!

http://www.thebicycleworks.co.uk/2013/01/09/campagnolo-athena-eps-user-test/

Spunk Bar? how many shots did you have?

thebicycleworks.co.uk/2013/01­/09/campagnolo-athena-eps-user-test/

Great read, thanks!

Love ratty Dolans.

@Dakin s one still winning.

Winning. Reminds me of this I saw on Instagram. Absolutely love it

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1988 Ibis Trials bike

That's some mad max shit

Home made trial bikes look pretty awesome, right down to the beefed up BB.

thread winner right here. because of/thanks to this thread, one of my new year's resolutions is to build an njsrat

Winter is coming

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That looks pretty mighty...

'Build a rat' is not a thing

Put my old tri-joke back on my beater.

Is that one of those alloy trispokes? There was one on eBay for £40 the other week and I was tempted to get it for a laugh, what are they like? I'm guessing shit

Yep shit, picked it up on gumtree for £50 before getting a proper trispoke.

bearings spin well but its proper heavy.

what i meant is im gonna buy a fucked up old njs frame and put mismatched parts on it and not worry if it doesn't have bar ends then never wash it (obviously degrease and regrease) and lock it up wherever

The weight is good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX0MB7pJtKs

Can't figure out where to put this, this is probably the only place for it;

Flip the bars and it might fit in functional.

I like this, in a weird way.

Sounds like you're trying a bit hard. Rat bikes evolve.