Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Have a legit crack-n-fail rat with gears in the works.

So tempted to just put risers on my Vivalo

Quoted for the new page. Nice find B0N0R.

we had worse 3rd posts

hah, i had to get my numbers up innit

Sweat stains from the turbo in particular are beginning to make a nice mackerel stripe effect on the downtube.

Maybe it's more functional than rat or beater, but they only get hard ons for mudguards over there and I want this to look properly abused by the time it falls apart

Sweat stains from the turbo in particular are beginning to make a nice mackerel stripe effect on the downtube.

haha, awesome

"Maybe it's more functional than rat or beater, but they only get hard ons for mudguards over there..."

Rep!

.....'merica

accidently found the before photo

Nice to see that Bridgestone here... I sold him that frame. Aside from paint chips, it's in really great shape (no rust or dings).

:) thanks!

Here's how the NJSbeater stands right now. I got a bit bored of risers so I chucked some spotter bars on there with some old tape I had lying around.

Awesome..

shot of the B'ride... pedals/stem&risers/spoke swapped over from my summa time hunny

Skirt love the weather man

So much fun:

Concorde road frame, Reynolds 753, unknown history, but the Reynolds sticker says "Renovated".

All the Concorde history I could find said their frames were built by other companies, using Columbus tubing.

Something's fallen on the top tube's middle cable guide at some point, so now the guide is half-flat and there's a dent in the tube. There is a crack in the paint on one side but I'm not sure whether I should sand it back and check for a crack. Could probably cut and sleeve it.

^really nice bike!

is this a real concorde or just stickers applied?

i think real

Was that Fennel's concorde?

And mine, too. It's not a real Concorde but it sure is nice!
Whoever's got it now did exactly what I wanted to do but never got 'round to.