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Hey there guys. For ever I've been thinkin about how to bend a fork properly, getting it true and without kinking. Other fellow ratters do it perfectly, like KOTA. He uses a conduct pipe bender, but I have none. Till now I just added struts to my bikes forks to get them low and a bit stretched...

Hey there. I was recently given this old rod brake bike. It's a pristine rust bucket, and it's gonna keep like that. Love, oil and maybe a few mods only: Keep it up.

Hey there guys. I've been absent for a while, mainly because I had to finish this project: http://museus-energia.byclosure.net/patrimonios/21-fabrica-moagem-sampaio, and, as you can imagine, I had a lot of work on my hands. We opened on April 25th. Anyway, yesterday a friend bought this bike for...

Hey there. I just got this Jun 1979 portuguese muscle bike. The still existing Orbita bicicle brand made these after the english raleigh chopper mk1 I think. It's not really my kinda bike (chekout some of my threads), but it keeps many original parts and in quite good state, so it's a keeper...

I rebuilt that cruiser I made, again! (Ex-RedBaron) Now it's the Rusty Nail, goin' out for Candy Kane! Rusty paintjob, and lowered. Hope you guys like it: Keep it up

That video posted on the site's homepage is just awsome. Bikes made to last. I've got one of those Raleighs: Uploaded with ImageShack.us Keep it up

Activity update Amidst all the fatherhood obligations, I’ve found time to post something. Here’s an update. It’s been really cold outside, so we burn every wood available On a trip to the nearby garbage can, I found a rusty Peugeot bike, missing the front wheel The bike was huge and the...

Good friends are worth it! My best friend whom is to all of us known as “Pisco” keeps telling us that he’d like to have one of those old diamond frame roadsters. So I decided to build him a bike: I started with a “The Zenith Cycles” English frame I had, and some other parts, and I was decided to...

A friend gave me this engine, which has almost twice the cc's that I had on the Villiers boardtrack racer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL26UnAN8zE) Just wanted to share: Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us...

Hey there guys. I haven’t been able to follow the forum much ‘cause of fatherhood, but I found time to chop the fat man build (remember?) and build a bike strongly influenced by some of the outstanding builds on the RRB contest. Thanks a lot everyone. I leave you with some sequence shots and...

Hey there. The red baron is no longer red. The paint was a bit chiped, so I changed it. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Keep rollin'

Hey there. This new post is dedicated to my first boardtrack style bike. Built (almost) from scratch, I’ll start working on a vulgar female mtb a friend gave me. I’ll be collecting ideas from my favourite racers on this forum. namelly this one that I think reflects averything a rat boardtracker...

Hi there. I was wondering if there was a gas engine adaptation "tutorial" in this neighbourhood. Has anyone documented it yet? I've got an old (how old I cannot tell) water pump with a cool 4 stroke automatic engine that can run on gasoline or petrol (correct spelling? - in Portugal those are...

I told you somewherelse that I was having a lot of ideas after looking at the building contest. So... I took apart the green "overnight bike", snatched that old mbt my dad had rusting, picked an example from the contest (la cucaracha - thank you mr. builder) and started working yesterday. Here's...

Hi there. For me the one of the most difficult things while building a frame is to bend the tubes. On the two bicycles I've built, the tubes where bent at a local shop, but I'd like to do it myself. What is, on your opinion, the most effective way to shape them? Thanks

Hi there. As I said in the Intro section, I stumbled across ratrodbikes by accident, searching for bike parts. But being a Kustom lover and also a rookie bike builder (last photo), I could'nt just wait to get home and start "ratin'" an old Zenith Cycles frame I had hangin around. Yesterday's...

Hi there. Just the quick facts: I'm from Portugal, currently working at a museum. I own a 1966 Raleigh, and I've built a beach cruiser (we don't have them here as you do) and a lowrider. I stumbled by radrodbikes and loved it. On the very evening of that day (the day before yesterday) I started...