Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Your mallet head looks like spongebob.

Yes, I got a bit enthusiastic with the drill in my own special way.

My BMC is used for going to the pub and to work. By your definition it is a beater:

#asbadasscoble

If you have 3 other bikes that you look after better, or that you will only take out in the sun, then yes, it probably is!

Mine is looked after, but if I need to pick something up from the post office, or pop to town for a mooch round the charity shops, then it is picked and used and locked wherever.......thats all I meant

If you have 3 other bikes that you look after better, or that you will only take out in the sun, then yes, it probably is!

what? You know how much that would cost?

LURVE that Panasonic.

(You can imagine how that's not a beater. It's the main bike and is loved and ridden as such.)

If you have 3 other bikes that you look after better, or that you will only take out in the sun, then yes, it probably is!

Mine is looked after, but if I need to pick something up from the post office, or pop to town for a mooch round the charity shops, then it is picked and used and locked wherever.......thats all I meant

my beater is pretty much used instead of using a car to get me everywhere, does that count?

i may have some somewhere, but they are black

spotter is having a look see for me, if no joy there I'll let you know. Thanks for the offer either way.

rained for a change! got some more pics of my Guerciotti

spotter is having a look see for me, if no joy there I'll let you know. Thanks for the offer either way.

He had a look and he couldn't find one sorry. I've got an entire 3 3/32 half link chain somewhere if someone wants it

My great uncle Ted's pub bike from when drink driving laws were brought in.

I resprayed it when I was a kid with my dad. Pretty poor job. The handling is a bit strange, but I love it.

I keep thinking about fixing it up, new wheels, a bit of grease etc. but when it comes down to it, it moves so there never seems to be any point. Also the current wheels are around 26", but some old size. 27" also fit... so I've no idea what size wheel I'd go for. I wondered about 26" with fat tyres.

Anyway I love it.

Been into the odd wall has it?

guess this belongs here, i really like it

Been into the odd wall has it?

and some parked cars/trees too by the looks of it.

That's how you can tell it's a real pub bike.

hugo7, those rims are probably 590mm, a common size on Raleighs (which that looks like) back in the day. Good rims and tires are still available, but searchers gotta search.

A collegue's fixed wheel Dawes, as a fixed wheel bicycle should be;

what does that even mean?

A la Sheldon Brown;

Cheap, simple, easy to look after and all about the ride (there's a brooks saddle under the industrial glove).

so how's it different from every other fixed bike?

apart from the cheap part

I can't look at it though.......It's like when you spot an attractive young lady out on the town, you want to approach her, but her fat, ugly mate is lurking in the background, ready to pounce and leech the very life out of you..........

sort of.

repped ^ im guessing thats eds bike in the background

That's precisely the feeling people get of my bike.

a fat ugly bitch of a women who turn out to be the best lay insofar.

That's precisely the feeling people get of my bike.

a fat ugly bitch of a women who turn out to be the best lay insofar.

shudder/shiver...queasy...