Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Quite right, I meant MOST of our indicating (left turns and slowing down to stop - which nobody does but I learnt it on Cycling efficiency)

Cycling Efficiency! nice, wish they'd done that at my school

So based on some of the above photos the trick to ruining the paint on your frame, sorry making it look like a rat bike, is to remove the outer sleeve from your Kryptonite chain.

Picture of my ratty beater that I ride to work.

^ Is it me or does that chain ring look a bit tiny! :D

^ Is it me or does that chain ring look a bit tiny! :D

That's a 50 chain ring dude...the frame is 75cm ;-)

That's a 50 chain ring dude...the frame is 75cm ;-)

Blimey... What are you? some sort of giant?

I joke mate :-p it's a 58, but yeah only 42 ring with a 14 cog..runs okay :-))

Groovy.

I think the chainsaw is driving the front wheel?

on the same kinda theme

pedal powered grinder

Totally different - above is useful.

Groovy.

Maybe useless now, but wait until the zombie apocalypse!!!

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True rat's bikes from Cuba

One I spotted in Amsterdam.......

Nice to see a Turbomatic - very much in line with the Rat-Bike ethos...
I used one on my race bike last year - super comfortable, good enough for fignon, and dirt cheap too - the last one I bought was <£2 on the ebay

Picture of my ratty beater that I ride to work.

1) Lockup method is total bobbins. Must secure the rat!

I'd guess it's a courier's bike, so it's only going to be left locked like that for for a few minutes at a time.

That's just a Hannebrink....what it doin here?

Are those wheels from a plane?

One I spotted in Amsterdam.......

true

not rat's at all
just saved from water

But ir's a production bike...I always saw frankenbikes as being home made?

Nice to see a Turbomatic - very much in line with the Rat-Bike ethos...
I used one on my race bike last year - super comfortable, good enough for fignon, and dirt cheap too - the last one I bought was <£2 on the ebay

paid 50p for mine in really good nic at a bike fair.

Probably one of my favourite saddles.

Built the Ciombola frankenrat from 'graveyard' parts from work. The only new parts are the 16 spokes in the front wheel, The rest was going to be scrapped. The ksyrium on the back has a microscopic crack in the rim, but it's fine for hacking down to the shops.

The bars are great for bunny hopping! It has a 5 speed cassette (the smallest 5 sprockets from a 10 speed), and the long cable is for bar spins.

Built the Ciombola frankenrat from 'graveyard' parts from work. The only new parts are the 16 spokes in the front wheel, The rest was going to be scrapped. The ksyrium on the back has a microscopic crack in the rim, but it's fine for hacking down to the shops.

The bars are great for bunny hopping! It has a 5 speed cassette (the smallest 5 sprockets from a 10 speed), and the long cable is for bar spins.

Nice to see a Ciombola in London (I'm assuming).

Ciombola were all built by Wayne Roberts, father of Luke (ex CSC, currently on the pro market and rising for UniSA team in the TDU) who stopped building frames about three years ago.

Ciombola were nearly all sold through Trak Cycles AFAIK, certainly later in the marquee's life, as a sort of 'in house' upper end brand.
Wayne was last heard of welding and building caravans somewhere in the Adelaide Hills.

What bars are they?