my rat

[dinog]

 

[Larry]

here ya go

 

[dinog]

thanks for the help with the picture

 

[xddorox]

Very cool 8)

 

[Hooch]

awesome it has an old klunker look!

 

[-=RaTb0y=-]

That look is timeless !
I love it !

Here are links to some modern day, future rattage that might
be of interest to someone:

http://www.firemansbikes.com

http://worksmancycles.com/shopsite_sc/s ... age32.html

 

[Clothespin n]

I love it..
The BMX Bars set it off great..
I'm a bit partial to it because I am a BMX'r as well.

great Ride,
Kev.

 

[fattroy]

Very nice I like it!! The bars are a nice touch too.

 

[mastershake916]

Did you go for the clunker look?
Also what are the fork brace officially called?

 

[dinog]

I kinda just went for the bmx/rat look.
I think the fork brace is actually called
a truss....but I might be wrong. :mrgreen:
Thanks to everyone for the compliments on the
bike. Working on this bike takes me back to
the seventies working on my Stingray !

 

[CCR]

i dig the fork strut and the color, sharp !!!!!

 

[ricksterr1221]

Niice bike man.

 

[mastershake916]

I kinda just went for the bmx/rat look.
I think the fork brace is actually called
a truss....but I might be wrong. :mrgreen:
Thanks to everyone for the compliments on the
bike. Working on this bike takes me back to
the seventies working on my Stingray !

Thanks, fork struss, or maybe fork strut.

 

[lurker]

I hear the term "klunker" a lot. What does it mean?

 

[Clothespin n]

I hear the term "klunker" a lot. What does it mean?

some one else can give a more detailed description of it but in a
round about way it mean's....

"The Begining of Down hill...and ALL Mountain Bikes"

it started in Marin County, California.
guys would take Old Schwinn Cruiser Frames with big Knobie tires,
straight bars,modified brakes and gears...trick them out

...and Race down hill in Bell Bottom pants, knee pads and a lot of guts :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

this is a link Multipass...another BMX lover like me.... posted way back..

this is the true form,shape and look of a Klumker.
http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultim ... 1;t=024780

and here are some example's of the Bell Bottom's
http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/mtbwelcome.htm

hope this helped Lurker..
peace,
Kev.

 

[Hooch]

http://clunkers.net/

 

[yustin]

hooch, thanks for that link. i grew up in Fairfax, got my first bikes, and parts from the nice mechanics at sunshine bikes in fairfax. I was pretty cool watching mountain biking being born. We would bomb those same hills on our bmx, sideways.
Pretty cool reading about all that, thanks.

 

[mastershake916]

http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/co_evo.htm
I'm going to be building one soon, a lot like this one:

Except with a BMX-style fork and clamp-on stem.