Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Nefarious, although being partially correct, you can't but agree that any bike with aerobar extention, mtb mudguard and rear rack is very confused.. Let alone that bike being a Gios Torino..

But do you know it's confused? Surely you can only know that if you know the owner and how it's ridden. I'm just a little sick of so many people on LFGSS thinking/telling other people how they should be using their bike - especially the idea of an owner not deserving the bike. Yeah, we all see what we consider to be monstrosities on a regular basis and maybe the bike's potential isn't being realised but there's nothing sadder than putting a lot of time and effort into a bike (on both the part of the builder and then owner) for it to be left as a show piece.

/rant