Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

It's not been built, more periodically abused, just got to the point where the rear wheel really needs replacing.

The back wheel's fine, you just need to stop letting Rob anywhere near it ;)

My beater, is more beaten up than this picture shows, but its a nice photo so I'll show!

This bike is rad.

It's not been built, more periodically abused, just got to the point where the rear wheel really needs replacing.

Accept my apologies then :D

That stem is epic. Does anyone know what it is?

Epic?

Yes epic.

The back wheel's fine, you just need to stop letting Rob anywhere near it ;)

My bike's got a restraining order on Rob for the good of the both of them.

Accept my apologies then :D

No problem man, the wheelset's been ridden to the point where it needs replacing, front's been done but the rear is waiting on a hub, thought if I'm replacing I may as well do nice and abuse it back to rat.

just robbed this.

Seriously, please give that frame the respect it deserves

yeah and what are the bars? you dont run into many non OS ergo drops.

3ttt did loads. Planet x have a few NOS.

and deserves embedding

one of the best bikes ever.

3ttt did loads. Planet x have a few NOS.

THIS. lovely little 38cm 3ttt Morpheus bars, short reach. Oh and the levers are standard tektro rl520, have done me pretty well.

one of the best bikes ever.

Know what you mean. Every time I see it it grows on me more, and I liked it in the first place! Really is an almost perfect rat. just wish I had one the same in a 58cm frame... sigh

Well nice, if that was in my size, I'd snap that up for £200!

I think it's a rat that actually has been ridden till it looked like that, but also was a bit of a HHSB in previous life!

I dunno its still a bit HHSB. Deep section rims and fucking risers.

Are we talking about that yellow thing?

As I said, it was a HHSB, but under all the grime, signs of abuse, and general rattiness, so therefore is NOW a rat.

It's now a HHRB

This belongs here

No, it belongs in the skip.

unsettling

forking hell

someone explain that rear brake thingy.

adjustable from 406 to 730 mm.
it's a do-all miracle.

It looks like one of those hydraulic V-brakes, Magura was it? Well at least some of it.....

That's a lock not a brake.

One of them retro rear wheel locks? so people can't ride away on it

See the No Fork project bike. This is his daily ride on his crazy idea.

Definitely a frankenbeater.