Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

The way Iook at it:

Ratbike - loved and well looked after but used and abused, battlescarred porn....

#pics

Beater - (typically) something you can leave locked up without worry about too much, maybe thrown together from the parts bin for not alot of money. A fun bike that may not be aesthetically pleasing in a traditional manner, but is a hoot to ride.

#some more pics removed in order to save some precious space in teh internets..

Of course, there is some crossover...

I don't know where new bikes covered in stickers comes into this though.

Right, I think I got mixed up with the naming and identifying them battered bikes.