Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Coasterbrake trick bike is such a good idea imo, makes me want to pick up a esb or volume and do the same

Last day at work today and this was getting binned

So needless to say, it went into the boot of my car rather then a skip.

It'll do me as a ratty winter commuter I think but I need to 'de-blue-ify' it somehow as my new job is a stone's throw away from Celtic Park and well, if any of you are familiar with Glasgow's two football teams you'll see my problem!

Tape rather than a respray I think as the paint's in pretty good nick so it'd be a shame to destroy it.

^so awesome

My Retaard bike in CX-competition setup
Tires: Front 28c cx-tires, 25c road rear
Drop: Nitto 36cm B123 angled in poor-mans-hoods surrogat
Brake: Tektro mounted to be reachable in the hood surrogat
Wheels: Rear 36h custom(uuuhhh)powdercoated Bolt-on-shizzle
Front: Powdercoated with BMX-hub (10mm axel) laced on 36h rim (weighs in at 1.5kg in 28c setup :))
Frame: MaxWay aka. plumbers nightmare
Ride experience: Soft as butter without any feeling of feedback or control

Y U no flop and chop?

dude, read again

it doesnt sound like a daily thing

besides, flop and chop nitto b123?

haha

I have a perfect dog the 'man' that machine gun for me too

The rusty distressed look is definitely in this season!

dam! I shouldn't have re painted my bike! well. It will take about another 50 years to get it to where it was again :(

Last day at work today and this was getting binned

So needless to say, it went into the boot of my car rather then a skip.

It'll do me as a ratty winter commuter I think but I need to 'de-blue-ify' it somehow as my new job is a stone's throw away from Celtic Park and well, if any of you are familiar with Glasgow's two football teams you'll see my problem!

Tape rather than a respray I think as the paint's in pretty good nick so it'd be a shame to destroy it.

Spray it green and white, you know you want to :)

^Innertubes and zip ties work quite well for debluification....

My Retaard bike in CX-competition setup
Tires: Front 28c cx-tires, 25c road rear
Drop: Nitto 36cm B123 angled in poor-mans-hoods surrogat
Brake: Tektro mounted to be reachable in the hood surrogat
Wheels: Rear 36h custom(uuuhhh)powdercoated Bolt-on-shizzle
Front: Powdercoated with BMX-hub (10mm axel) laced on 36h rim (weighs in at 1.5kg in 28c setup :))
Frame: MaxWay aka. plumbers nightmare
Ride experience: Soft as butter without any feeling of feedback or control

Why did you choose to have a larger tyre on the rear?

read it again...

That's just a old bike...

...then takes a seat

No an old bike is an old bike, a rat bike is a rat bike.

But that is a bit ratty.

Plus the mismatched/old parts imply it's a beater too.

A rat bike should look like it has a few good story's to tell... if it could talk, that just looks like it was left in a shed for years, not that interesting to me

...but it is a beater so ill shut up now

Why did you choose to have a larger tyre on the rear?

read it again...

Ah I got confused, I can understand why you'd have larger rear tyre, why would the front be larger?

that just looks like it was left in a shed for years, not that interesting to me

i've got bikes that have been left in a shed for years.
They don't look like that.

Spray it green and white, you know you want to :)

While that'd probably ensure i got a god reception in the immediate vicinity of my new work, I don't know it'd fair too well anywhere else in Glasgow.

Also, I don't really want to ride a green and white bike!

^Innertubes and zip ties work quite well for debluification....

I've decided that since I didn't pay anything for it resale value doesn't matter so I'm going to strip the paint and linseed oil it. Plus, even in mint nick I doubt it'd be worth much.

Mud and chain guards might get flat black hammerite.

Re the Gillot - saddle and grips suggest to me it's sat unused for a while and as such at least some of the corrosion must have happened while it's been in storage so it's not as nice an example of heavy use as some of the bikes in this thread but it's still nice and I'd say probably deserves posting here.

^ Gillott belongs to my Dad, he uses it for <20m trips all year round - probably gets out once a week for rides along the prom at Bournemouth in the winter and country rides/commuting in the summer. It doesn't get a hammering, but when we were kids he did all his touring on it, and it also had child seats, low riders, bar bags etc hung off it.
It's basically a top-quality very old bike that's just be used for what bikes were always used for - getting to work and escaping at weekends. No whip-skids or anything like that. It also happens to have stunning lugwork and a lovely frame patina. There's nothing contrived about it at all. It's just my old mans bike!!!

downgraded stem and seatpost and fitted some battered old chopped and flopped horns as an interim solution while I figure out what lever/bars to use

use the bars you had, sweptback ftw

I know, but I wasn't getting on with the drop lever on sideways...

I'll try and find a bar end- reverse lever or whatever it's called, you know, the one some people mistake for a tt lever...