greywolf
12-11-03, 06:08 AM
This is a pic. of my regular ride , made up of bits off 4-5 different bikes ,she certainly makes some of the local cycling elite look down their noses :D :D
Classic & Vintage - Not strickly Classic ??
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kerk
12-11-03, 06:19 AM
I'll bet they do.
Nice ride, very "classic" looking.
Nice ride, very "classic" looking.
Poguemahone
12-11-03, 07:57 AM
I like Frankenbikes. I have one myself. They show a touch of ingenuity and stick-to-itvness on the part of the rider. Plus, they're funkier than a stock machine with a unified "gruppo." I once heard the component sets on Frankenbikes refered to as a "messo".
John E
12-11-03, 04:14 PM
All of my road bikes, particularly the SunTour-geared Peugeots, are Frankenbikes.
Poguemahone
12-11-03, 09:28 PM
You know, when I bought the PF10, way back in 1979, it had a suntour front derailleur on it (long gone, replaced by shimano rsx cheapie), to go with the simplex rear (still there), and the mismatched rims (one Rigada, one Weinmann). I guess it was a Frankenbike right out of the box, although it's had considerably more surgery in the interim. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! It lives!!!!! It lives!!!!!!
LarryJ
12-12-03, 08:04 AM
I'm a big fan of Frankenbikes and their very practical subset, the Trashmo. My basement shop is rapidly filling with bike projects in different levels of progress. Yesterday I picked up an old Raleigh from the years they seemed to be trying to break into the cheapo market, for four bucks in a thrift store. It was inexplicably in near mint condition. Since it has a set of crotch skewering top tube shifters, the whole bike screams out "fixed gear project".
I think I understand human nature pretty well, but I've never understood the flame wars among different approaches to bike hardware. There are very real practical tradeoffs between different types of bike, and differences in quality between different bikes within each type, but as long as the bike is mechanically roadworthy, and the cyclist knows how to properly do the pre-ride checkout and ride properly on the road, there's no particular shame in having a Frankenbike, or a hybrid, or a BMX, or a 3000 dollar road bike, or a fixie ... etc.
I think I understand human nature pretty well, but I've never understood the flame wars among different approaches to bike hardware. There are very real practical tradeoffs between different types of bike, and differences in quality between different bikes within each type, but as long as the bike is mechanically roadworthy, and the cyclist knows how to properly do the pre-ride checkout and ride properly on the road, there's no particular shame in having a Frankenbike, or a hybrid, or a BMX, or a 3000 dollar road bike, or a fixie ... etc.