Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Sure there is too tight, but this is the other end of the spectrum.

no there isn't, i run my chain slapping the stays

Naw man, paint the seatpost and stem black for rat porn!

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Jellyaxe snapped a sick photo of Tim's Brensho today

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Installed a rack on my beater which I built as a commuter for the time i'm in the netherlands. Unfortunately I can't get it any lower since the rack was made for an omafiets and I had to come up with a creative way to install it... Not perfect but it's pretty stable.
So far I haven't spent a single € on this thing. It's entirely built out of parts from the bike graveyard of my student house except for the wheels which I got from a friend.
Pls excuse the shitty iphone photos...

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Really nice!

Well done.
Since the struts are just pressed steel, you could put them in a vise and compress exactly where you want the axle hole to be, then drill in the new location. If you straighten the top hangers you not only lower the rack, you'll also bring it in towards the head tube making it a little less self steering when you're carrying loads.

Cheers! The build is obviously inspired by this thread, so thanks for that!

Thanks for the advice on the rack, maybe i'll try that but the problem is that I don't have any proper tools with me here. Just a couple wrenches and allen keys that's basically it :D

Some details:

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Gotta be a neighbourhood bike garage thingy somewhere around there?

Good idea, there should be one or two places I could check out :)

Just saw a young lady locking this up in my street

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Coaster brake

Daaamn :( was gonna give her props for riding brkless, fortunately i didn't ;)

coaster should get props over brkless on street

I'm sure everybody on this forum agrees with that statement ;) jk, i get your point that it is safer...

Stuck a rack on my daily.

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Seen this Le Jeune @MCamb?

stem ID?

Looks like one of those old Giant stems;

Yep it's one of those old Mike Burrows designed Giant stems, strongly recommend them.
For some reason it's a bit of a marmite thing but personally I love mine, works so well and is really well designed, also surprisingly cheap whenever they pop up online. Should buy another.

Oh snap! Looks sick, like the build. what size @Crop?

know if yours the South African Lejeune, or the French one? Decals look like the same font

Thanks, will take some better photos at somepoint - had to run a 20c up front for a while as the clearance was too tight for a 23 gator.
(Current fork isn't the original)

It's 64ctt, 531 and was built by Francois Du Toit in '89 who was trained by Lejeune in France.

Trim the struts and you'd have a winner