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@hugo7
So what are rat bikes?
I thought the term is borrowed from homemade motorbikes, cobbled together from a mismatch of parts?
In my head
beater = day to day knockabout bike cobbled together from spare parts and/or functional other parts
Ratbike = ^ this but more worn