Rat Fink Chopper Bike. Mint condition garage score! Does anyone know much about these?

[SomeRandom]

Hello, thanks for the add! I scored this bike in an estate sale. It has one small scratch on seatpost, otherwise completely mint and original. It sat in a garage after the original owner got divorced 15+yrs ago. There was another cruiser as well. Both are around 2004 vintage.

I took it for a spin and the bike is incredible!

Any guess as to the value? It wasn’t cheap, but I knew it had to go with me instead of in their Uhaul. I’ll get more photos once spring happens. Thanks in advance!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Man, that is one cool Electra. Nice bike

 

[rickpaulos]

One of a batch of fun bikes from Dyno

Deuce
Mooneyes Cruiser
Rat Fink
Roadster (stretch lwb)
Taboo Tiki
etc

owned by GT & Schwinn for a while until they went bankrupt. I recall they got spun off or revived for while as Kustom Kruisers. With companies going under and the many mergers at the time, the owner/maker is hard to nail down exactly. Somewhere I have the calender/catalog for one year of the line up.


An interview with the designer here:

https://dynobicycles.info/dyno-daddy-aaron-bethlenfalvy-interview/

 

[rickpaulos]

My Dyno Mooneyes crusier with the Moon discs and Schwinn bars, yellow GT pedals, yellow racing saddle. The stock fat seat and very wide bars made the bike nearly unrideable. I have a 3 piece GT crank to install as the stock crank is so out of round it keeps tossing the chain.

 

[BDC]

There is a slightly later model currently for sale here (well, in Tasmania) on Ebay for around US$500.

Dyno Rick?

It's an Electra - which were bought by Trek - and subsequently ruined.

 

[SomeRandom]

My Dyno Mooneyes crusier with the Moon discs and Schwinn bars, yellow GT pedals, yellow racing saddle. The stock fat seat and very wide bars made the bike nearly unrideable. I have a 3 piece GT crank to install as the stock crank is so out of round it keeps tossing the chain.

Wow! That is incredible!!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Wow! That is incredible!!

To be clear, that's a dyno, not the same company as your Electra.