Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Double high bike in Chi Town

Anyone here ever seen the guy with the bike that's two frames welded together in a vertical configuration? He's like six feet off the ground. I think he only rides the one speed...didn't actually get a close enough look at it to see how it was configured, exactly. Saw him a few weeks ago down by Clark and Belmont. I'd like to know how he gets on and off...

its called a tall bike...search for talk bikes and ye shall find....

Chicago's Rat Patrol...junk bike and tall bike clan

The Scallywags...from Chicago..

The Black Label Riders...from Minneapolis, I think?? the original tall bike peeps...

or, you can do it like these cheesedink did...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/30729246.html

and your answer...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/30952144.html

another good resource...
http://www.tallbike.net/

don't mess with the rat patrol.

http://www.geocities.com/ratpatrolhq/

jeff

Kickass.

that's funk as puck. well done

its called a tall bike...search for talk bikes and ye shall find....

Chicago's Rat Patrol...junk bike and tall bike clan

The Scallywags...from Chicago..

The Black Label Riders...from Minneapolis, I think?? the original tall bike peeps...

or, you can do it like these cheesedink did...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/30729246.html

and your answer...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/30952144.html

another good resource...
http://www.tallbike.net/

You goddamned bike encyclopedia, you.

Saw a flock of them one night around Damen and Armitage.

I see a fleet of these hackjob supernauts cruising southbound on the LFP around Critical Mass day. Impressive.

There is a group out here that goes by the name S.C.U.L. (subversive chopper urban league). Funny bunch of folks on some crazy bikes. If I remeber right a couple of them work over at Seven cycles.

i think skunk used to work for merlin or something...but then they sold out to litespeed, or, the conglomerate who handles litespeed for another corporation...

i have a zine where he talks about having parties and stuff at the old merlin factory/warehouse...having donut races, and lighting Ti shavings on fire...fun stuff to read about. i was going to get involved with SCUL, but they make you pay a fee or do some work at their warehouse to ride with them, and i was leaving boston in a couple months anyway... one of the guys gave me some links to organizations out here in berkeley that do the same sort of thing, but i still haven't seen any of them, so i don't think they have anywhere near the presence that SCUL has.

its called a tall bike...search for talk bikes and ye shall find....

Chicago's Rat Patrol...junk bike and tall bike clan

The Scallywags...from Chicago..

The Black Label Riders...from Minneapolis, I think?? the original tall bike peeps...

or, you can do it like these cheesedink did...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/30729246.html

and your answer...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/30952144.html

another good resource...
http://www.tallbike.net/


I'm not sure if the Black Label Riders (formally the Hard Times Bike Club...and yes, here in Minneapolis) were/are the origional tall-bikers, but it's a trip to see one of the riders do a graceful mount or dismount...and many of the bikes here (minneapolis) are singlespeed. that's my $.02 worth.

For more info in Chicago, check it: http://chicagofreakbike.org/

Also, http://www.johnnypayphone.net

If you read the Reader a few weeks back, Johnny and Rat Bikes were the cover story, it was a real good read. He's out in Ghana right now building bikes for transport and heavy cargo work with the local government over there. He's out there in due part because of Working Bikes and has been there quite a while. I recently found out that a friend of mine is friends with him. Quite the interesting fellow.

we have em in cleveland/akron! yay!

Tall bikes rock!! Not hard to mount or to ride...dismounting is when it can get tricky... :D

C.H.V.N.K. DCLXVI, also know as Chunk 666 - started in PDX and spread to NYC...I'm pretty sure Black Label is in NYC, as well as Minneapolis, too... http://www.dclxvi.org/chunk/

Also Cyclecide in SFCA http://www.cyclecide.com/ and Dead Baby Bikes in Seattle http://www.deadbabybikes.org/

Good media story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1024/p05s01-ussc.html

Rat Patrol Tall Bikes, Chicago: http://www.geocities.com/ratpatrolhq/BikesTall.html

And the world's tallest tall bike, holder of the Guinness World Record, from Atomic Zombie: http://www.atomiczombie.com/

Well, yeah, a talltandem was just born at PFC, and a tall cruiser (6 speeds, oh what was that fixie rider thinking? *slaps self*) and more are born every waking moment.

Scaredy Rat rides the 151 reborn on a stoopid 42x23 since she is too damn lazy to fix it :-P

so, go build ****, st00pid! find crap in the trash...now~!

<>R.P.B.C. REPRESENT!<>

oh yea, and as the other poster said, dont **** with the rats...just come by with alot of beer and grabage for us :-D

The tall bikes are something that I've dreamed of. They are what got me dumpster diving for bikes in the first place, and riding fixed in the second. I have a couple old steel frames that I'd love to weld together in an attempt to build one, I just don't have welding skills, or the experience in configuring the front end, as the steering will need to be elongated as well as drive train etc.
I suppose now that work will reimburse me for shooling I could go to trade school and get a welding class, and build a tall bike for my final project! Wow, metal working and start building frames...