Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Needs, knobbly tyres, A head adaptor, BMX stem, BMX or MTB style cranks with either BMX pedals and restraps or clipless.
Fixed conversion, front disc brake, brooks saddle....
All kinds of rat (and poss anti)

no yyou don't. it's made of steel and weighs a shit tonne

I think I could cope with the weight. In a strange kind of way, it's just so beautiful and.... tubular.

All this work on Soviet industry is really messing with my head...

Needs, knobbly tyres, A head adaptor, BMX stem, BMX or MTB style cranks with either BMX pedals and restraps or clipless.
Fixed conversion, front disc brake, brooks saddle....
All kinds of rat (and poss anti)

Brooks on a rat?
Cheap as possible is a real rat.
Mine cost me £60 all together and i got a bit fancy

This is utterly wonderful.

Brooks on a rat?
Cheap as possible is a real rat.
Mine cost me £60 all together and i got a bit fancy

Its a beater thats as cheap as poss, a rat can be expensive parts, they just need to be v well used.
not that it matters, this isnt porn thread

"It's proper carbon steel but it's not come out of the cave for fifteen years - it's yours if you want it" was probably where I stopped thinking properly.

This doesn't stop

Dude, that's just a cheap hybrid...

Anti

from being right.
Even accepting the logic of

...as cheap as poss, a rat can be expensive parts, they just need to be v well used. not that it matters, this isnt porn thread

I think I'd be better off waiting for a more suitable starting point - thanks for the opinions

(goes away to look for further signs of senility)

I ride this thing over 1000km this year. I don't have video, bit it is very funny. For 2013 I will be with new bicycle /fixed of course/. Freak show attraction. It is very low geared - 66,5 GI, too heavy-11kg, with too fat tyres. But I like it.

That seatpost is somewhat, um, penetrative?

Wait, does that BMX have 120mm rear spacing or did you use an NJS hub?

Its a beater thats as cheap as poss, a rat can be expensive parts, they just need to be v well used.
not that it matters, this isnt porn thread

True true. I'm more thinking something your willing to lock anywhere and with one lock and at not

Front tyre clearance would not incline me to carry a heavy load on that rack...

Especially the way it mounted.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bikerescue/4014748607/in/photostream/

I see you met Petor.

No chain?
Aint going to be going anywhere fast.

Imagine falling from that barstard though...

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nevermind, cranks should be at the bottom.

i took that picture of Petors tall bike outside the bike kitchen today, was working on my current project. It has a chain, but someone stole its wheels last week. yet to be set back up, its just dangeling at the moment. in theory it is rideable.

how does he mount and dismount it? its quite a height.