Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

He's got a point though. Dirty stickered bikes can>>> and find their own thread.

It's like posting your bike in the Functional bikes thread because you put a front rack on a track bike. Or posting your fixie conversion in the snow in the Winter/Snow bikes thread because you're out riding in snow.

Ooh look, I'm running in shoes. Am I therefore wearing running shoes? No!

Well yes and no, look at 1/2 the bikes in the snowbike thread, where you gonna draw the line?
If you use your bike solely as a rat then what else is it? If you run in your vans and that's all you use them for they're your running shoes.