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Old 01-24-08, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by shasta
I see your rust

and raise you 5 backwards long chainring bolts/nuts.
I'll raise you a Surly fix/fix with one side stripped, with bent spokes and rusty track nuts.



And throw in a Surly cog and rusty chain for good measure.... (and a DA njs lockring for the bling factor).

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Ok, you win for now but one day something on my bike will break and I will replace it with something even uglier. Its all down hill from here buddy.

I know there must be some more beaters floating around...
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Old 01-24-08, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by shasta
Ok, you win for now but one day something on my bike will break and I will replace it with something even uglier. Its all down hill from here buddy.

I know there must be some more beaters floating around...
Yeah, I want to see more bikes that get the ??it kicked out of them on a daily basis!
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When it becomes not 1 degree outside i will go bring my bike in and take pictures in its current state. The brake has fallen off and its so nastied out from being ridden everywhere in this godforsaken place I call home. its pretty nast.
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Old 01-24-08, 02:36 PM
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This thread should of been called "Beasts of Burden"


I'm loving the beater bike/ugly bikes though
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Hey shasta, what size is your bike? Looks like something even I could ride (I'm guessing a 52 or 53?)
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I would have liked to see the bike called 'chupathingy'
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Its a 53cm.
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^^^"I'm good at estimating cattle weight and bike size."
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My Schwinn Conversion rain bike.
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Id make fun of my bike if I saw it on fixed gear gallery. tt pad off a bmx bike, random boondoggle holding bar tape onto bars off a murray, tape over CF fork...yeah it rides well.

edit..+extra spacer on top...not there anymore but it was.
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Old 01-27-08, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by ianjk
I'll raise you a Surly fix/fix with one side stripped, with bent spokes and rusty track nuts.



And throw in a Surly cog and rusty chain for good measure.... (and a DA njs lockring for the bling factor).

heh, that's what my bike looks like kinda. with miche hubs. salty roads in the snow really do a number on your parts, huh? rusty chains, track nuts, everything.
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Originally Posted by jobe149


Id make fun of my bike if I saw it on fixed gear gallery. tt pad off a bmx bike, random boondoggle holding bar tape onto bars off a murray, tape over CF fork...yeah it rides well.

edit..+extra spacer on top...not there anymore but it was.
bmx pads ftw
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c'mon man, why the taped up cf fork?
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Not beater enough! It looks...nice...
I'll see you all the rust in the world and raise you my road grime which is hanging from the bottom bracket, a chain that is pieced together from 3 other chains AND cottered cranks from the 70's.
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Old 01-28-08, 12:30 AM
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She's 46 years old and I love her to pieces.

Check out the centre pull brake...I have to say I really like the shellacked cork wrap.

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Originally Posted by ThunderChunky
c'mon man, why the taped up cf fork?
it was bright yellow with some crazy logo on it. Im not sure if I want to paint it or not.

The entire bike is built from bike co-op stuff and stuff I had.
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Originally Posted by jobe149
it was bright yellow with some crazy logo on it. Im not sure if I want to paint it or not.

The entire bike is built from bike co-op stuff and stuff I had.
a cf fork at a bike co-op? did you get a good deal on it? i'm definitely with you on the tape now.
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ahhh cynthia. suicide hub all the way. now my gnarly bike polo bike.
that ***** was sassy.
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ahhh cynthia. suicide hub all the way. now my gnarly bike polo bike.
that ***** was sassy.
classy, sassy, and ain't that trashy.
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she thanks you.
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Originally Posted by shasta
The only things that make that bike ugly are:

- the asymmetrical bar tape, going in the same direction on both sides
- messy electrical tape on the bars
- brake cables routed backwards through the levers



All these things can be fixed for free. Also, you can get 5 3mm hub spacers for your chainring bolts for like $2.50 at any LBS.


also, Yates.
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Hey man, ugly is the bikes theme. Don't try to steal my bikes ugliness away from her, its all she has. haha. Point taken though.
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Originally Posted by ianjk
I'll raise you a Surly fix/fix with one side stripped, with bent spokes and rusty track nuts.



And throw in a Surly cog and rusty chain for good measure.... (and a DA njs lockring for the bling factor).


Do you ride through NaOH(aq), lol? (I don't know my chem well...so maybe it doesn't cause corrosion like that.)
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