Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

nein nein nein nein nein!

9 9 9 9 9 9

...mae taid ar dân

Welsh to English translation
grandfather on fire

don't think so some how google

Stück Scheiße^

....schön Räder

^^ pretty accurate. Welsh pun. 9 (nine) is pronounced almost identical to the welsh word for grandmother (nain)

Do you carry the rock with you at all times?

why is that a rat bike?

Rusty chain?

And the lack of bar-end plug?

one tiny sticker in the top tube?

am I wrong, or do 'rat bikes' constitute more than a third of the subject matter of this thread?

my last post makes no sense.
you'll have to guess my meaning.

Too much like a mountain bike for my liking

am I wrong, or do 'rat bikes' constitute more than a third of the subject matter of this thread?

Less than a third.

this isn't bike porn, stop being so fussy and post some bikes

its Rat porn i guess.

still i think there are some rules as to what is a rat. namely stickers don't make a rat

Yes. I was going to say earlier that the more people have tried to define what a rat bike is throughout this thread others have got muddled and we've had fewer and fewer images of handsomely scabby bikes.

the people he's riding with have kept their bikes clean!

its Rat porn i guess.

still i think there are some rules as to what is a rat. namely stickers don't make a rat

this place is for beaters to remember

^^ where is this criminal under belly of lush green grass?

+1 for the owner of the ratty Gios :-) I left a note on the saddle asking if he would sell it to me to restore, but he e-mailed me and said as beat up as it is, he still loves the bike and wants to keep it.