Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

moonlite said:
Someone's put a lot of love and attention into that build . . .. All I can see is knees about the height of the rider's ears, though . . .
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Yer, I was thinking similar. Why put the BB there instead of racked out front?
it does look awesome, but I'm assuming Matti that it's a normal cruiser frame that's been widened and added too?
 
moonlite said:
Someone's put a lot of love and attention into that build . . .. All I can see is knees about the height of the rider's ears, though . . .
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novocaine said:
it does look awesome, but I'm assuming Matti that it's a normal cruiser frame that's been widened and added too?
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Yeah it's a 20" kids bike from the 70s, Ross Barracuda. Rear end widened to fit the huge tire and wider hub, obviously the fork is completely custom. Crash does meticulous work, sells them to car guys. They match them to their muscle cars, or display it in the den. Here's a before picture 278791-IMG-1605.jpeg

And a link:
https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/savage-b-o-b.120189/
 
MattiThundrrr said:
Yeah it's a 20" kids bike from the 70s, Ross Barracuda. Rear end widened to fit the huge tire and wider hub, obviously the fork is completely custom. Crash does meticulous work, sells them to car guys. They match them to their muscle cars, or display it in the den. Here's a before picture View attachment 891199

And a link:
https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/savage-b-o-b.120189/
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figured it would be something like that. I've seen a few of his builds now (all from you) selling to a car guy make sense, it's never going to be ridden further than across carpark at a meet, the rest of the time it sits on a posh rack looking cool.
 
It's the aspect of Ratrod Bikes that I'm least into. I can't do the small bikes. They need to justify their place in the fleet, can't give up precious space to a decoration. However, the craftsmanship is sublime
 
MattiThundrrr said:
It's the aspect of Ratrod Bikes that I'm least into. I can't do the small bikes. They need to justify their place in the fleet, can't give up precious space to a decoration. However, the craftsmanship is sublime
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agreed, if it ain't riding it's not a bike, it's an ornament.

it's why I don't have the recumbent or the chopper built anymore, I don't have a million square feet of garage space to hang ornaments up.
 
27motorhead said:
Cool bike, but it always amazes me why so many builds never fit a dyno powered rear light as well??? Instead it's got some stupid flappy hipster thing under the saddle and without too much effort you could have run a cable into the downtube, round the inside of the BB shell, up the seat tube and come out of the seatpost. Simple?

Also that rear rack doesn't look like it can handle much at all.
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For me personally, I run dyno front on the CC but haven't bothered routing for a rear as my CatEye rear runs for over a week on a charge and is far superior to any I've tried with dyno power. Now I agree that a flappy hipster thing isn't a very good alternative
moonlite said:
Beautiful frame and some droolworthy bits, and yet the whole seems so much less than the sum of its parts.
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I doubt much thought went into it - the most effort was probably put into entering the card details and signing off on the spare kidney to Paul

@KayOs

Never gave much thought to bells, I don't use one as I feel rude. I just ride really slowly and tell them I'm moving past, usually apologising profusely while somehow still scaring them. I don't think they've fitted a bell with intention to actually ding it in traffic, though. I'm not sure it will see traffic ;P
 
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