Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

It's got harder to find decent rats and beaters.

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The (repost?) Brooklyn I like.

The van in the 3rd pic steals the show though.

I had an inkling that it was a repost, but it's nicer than alot of the stuff that's been posted recently.

brooklyns always seem to be built with ugly cockpits.

Nah, just looks cool.

like drillium then?

man I really want a nice steel track frame

That Brooklyn's a fail.

No foot retention.

Love that white Rossin at the top of the page. If you've got a spare few pictures today, go and mess up your bike a bit, else we'll find ourselves running out of pictures to go in here!

That Brooklyn's a fail.

1 brake freewheel.

looks more like...

You're right, look like a White Industries freewheel.

Even more of a fail.

You're right, look like a White Industries freewheel... and with only a front brake.

Even even more more of a fail.

ftfy

not sure if it's worth posting my bike up, i guess it's a beater but it looks clean as anything in comparison to some of the beauties on here!

erm whats going on edscobbly? jersey? malaysian?

these are not your bikes, they belong to someone else.

You are fail

The fail is that while you guys sit here whining about how much of a fail these other peoples bikes are, they're probably out there riding them like they obviously have been for fucking ages, with none of the supposed problems you guys like to preach about on the internet.

I mean Ed, ffs, you've ridden brakeless fixed plenty of times so you're in no position to criticize freewheel with front brake only!
I know far more people who have snapped chains than have snapped front brake cables...so what makes it more of a fail?
The fact that the brooklyn above clearly gets ridden hard shows that the person riding it clearly has no trouble riding it freewheel with just a front brake.

^all this and more

+1

that rossin is going unappreciated. super nice build.

^all this and more

whatever. it's easy to post hyperbolic moralistic hippie piss. more challenging and fun to complain successfully.

not sure if it's worth posting my bike up, i guess it's a beater but it looks clean as anything in comparison to some of the beauties on here!

http://instagr.am/p/GHuYP/

That's my beater if anyone's interested.

that rossin is going unappreciated. super nice build.

Indeed.. It seems all Rossins with that paintjob were destined for rat.. All those I've seen are heavily used but damn fine & beautiful..

pedal rats

[QUOTE=Black Rainbow Project;2236607]The fail is that while you guys sit here whining about how much of a fail these other peoples bikes are, they're probably out there riding them like they obviously have been for fucking ages, with none of the supposed problems you guys like to preach about on the internet.
QUOTE]

Best thing thats been said on this forum for a long time.

aye

casual elitism abounds here...

"wrong colours... fail something..." -dorks & co

looks more like...

SS with one brake is perfectly safe, i don't feel this issue has been covered enough on this forum. Discuss.

looks more like...

erm whats going on edscobbly? jersey? malaysian?

these are not your bikes, they belong to someone else.

You are fail

The fail is that while you guys sit here whining about how much of a fail these other peoples bikes are, they're probably out there riding them like they obviously have been for fucking ages, with none of the supposed problems you guys like to preach about on the internet.

I mean Ed, ffs, you've ridden brakeless fixed plenty of times so you're in no position to criticize freewheel with front brake only!
I know far more people who have snapped chains than have snapped front brake cables...so what makes it more of a fail?
The fact that the brooklyn above clearly gets ridden hard shows that the person riding it clearly has no trouble riding it freewheel with just a front brake.

^all this and more

whatever. it's easy to post hyperbolic moralistic hippie piss. more challenging and fun to complain successfully.

[QUOTE=Black Rainbow Project;2236607]The fail is that while you guys sit here whining about how much of a fail these other peoples bikes are, they're probably out there riding them like they obviously have been for fucking ages, with none of the supposed problems you guys like to preach about on the internet.
QUOTE]

Best thing thats been said on this forum for a long time.

aye

casual elitism abounds here...

"wrong colours... fail something..." -dorks & co

SS with one brake is perfectly safe, i don't feel this issue has been covered enough on this forum. Discuss.

Problem?