Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

Freakxie cleverly stupid rat bike. Between anti, cheap, rat and frankenbike.
Gwoshh, the crankset shred!

i would be so paranoid of one of those bar welds giving.

getting progressively rattier

aided by the fact i threw it down a cycle path thanks to some wet leaves covering the drop off at the edge.

Nice mop

Mop pr0n thread >>>>>>>>>

TT polo bike?

I think that this belongs here..

^^^^ I'm amazed that my crap paint job has lasted as well as it has!

that's just mud and dirt, not rust.

That orangey/brown colour on the teeth/whole chain? Da, thats iron oxide. Rust.

Loverly when clean though

I also had a dirty bike last winter

Bad times when the road salt comes out:

^grubbystarfish

Needs to sort out cockpit thought.

That frame has so much potencial

http://i.imgur.com/WGNr3Ai.jpg

^^^^^Is that an All City Big Block? Looks very restrained and sensible there! Like it

I wouldnt want to put anything heavy on that rack seen as though it's resting on a QR skewer rather than a solid axle.

CETMA sell their racks as being compatible with QRs. You'll find plenty of racks on QRs in their Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancekagar/sets/72157624969797529/

I have a rack running on a QR and having carried many beers, weekly food shops, a Brompton amongst other things and not found it to be a problem at all.

^ ah ok

all the racks I was looking at said they were not QR compatible but I didnt look at CETMA in too much detail because the website said they were out of stock.

Needs to sort out cockpit thought.

whats going on with the rear wheel? going through the frame??!

Yes, split seat tube.

too sick

Build this one for the misses. It's a Locomotief 26" frame with 28 x 1 1/2 wheels and some new, some modded and some salvadged parts.

Plan was to keep it ratty, thought she might not like that and changed my mind to paint it with all new parts. So I opted for a (cheap) modern crankset, for which I had to get a bushing machined to fit a bb in it's old type bb shell.

Eventually previous bike got stolen, semi-finished this in a hurry and showed it. She loved it and didn't want a paintjob, so I even 'ratted' it out a bit more. Perfect. :)

Need to do some last minor things, probably switch to a more suitable older crankset and find / fabricate a smaller frontcarrier.

^^^^^Is that an All City Big Block? Looks very restrained and sensible there! Like it

Yeah the All City with full mudguards is a Big block, guards look really clean