Northeastern Europe (Plus Rome) Bikes - Rome Too

[kingfish254]

My wife and I are enjoying the first leg of our European Christmas. Riga, Latvia has been a great city to visit. We are staying in the Old Town which is pedestrian only, but I have been surprised how few bikes we have seen. Maybe the snow has something to do with it.

We happened across the annual Santa Run which included a custom reindeer bike.

I found this cool vintage photo at a museum

Here is one of the few non mountain bikes that I have seen.

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Riga, Latvia MO FATTA Bike

What are the chances of one MO FATTA MO BETTA bike builder coming across another one half a world away!!!!

The wife and I were having a great day walking around the snow covered streets in Riga and I walked up on this wicked creation!!!!!

As I am snapping photos of all of the details (rims, jackshaft, overall MO FATTA MO BETTA badness), the owner comes over and I praised his super cool work. Very nice guy. He thinks he has heard of RRB and I told him that his bike MUST be posted here. He even offered for me to come by his garage to see his other creations. If I wasn't leaving for Vilnius at 7 am tomorrow, I would have found a way to get over there. I have his email though, so I will send him some Fugsley photos and invite him to RRB.

Check out this cold hotness!!!!

Take a look at how he made a headtube from an old Russian rear hub shell. This dude has skillz!!!

 

[MplsCoaster]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Riga, Latvia MO FATTA Bike

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing
I like the handle bars on the crazy car tire bike (plus all the other odd stuff)

 

[deven_science]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Riga, Latvia MO FATTA Bike

That's a crazy-cool bike!

 

[HippieKruiser]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Riga, Latvia MO FATTA Bike

WOW! 100% RAT bike

Kingfish, next time you should definitely visit St-Petersburg/ Russia sometime around 20-24 June, we'll have White Night Kustom Awards Fest and Kruise. St-Petersburg is only about 500 km away from Riga :wink:

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Riga, Latvia MO FATTA Bike

WOW! 100% RAT bike

Kingfish, next time you should definitely visit St-Petersburg/ Russia sometime around 20-24 June, we'll have White Night Kustom Awards Fest and Kruise. St-Petersburg is only about 500 km away from Riga :wink:

That would be very cool HK! We loved St. Petersburg when we were there as part of our first round-the-world trip. You live in an awesome city!!!!! We actually took the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing (7 days) during that trip.

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Riga, Latvia MO FATTA Bike

One last Riga bike. Basic city bike covered in snow, but it does have a built in bot lock on the seatstays.

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Vilnius, Lithuania

Here are the bikes that I have seen in Vilnius, Lithuania

Basic ladies city bike

Cool mags on this MTB

Old Peugot mixte with decorations

Cool small folding bike used to advertise wine bar

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Tallinn, Estonia

Haven't seen many bikes in Tallinn, Estonia yet, but check out what I just picked up from the Christmas Market . Most of these are silver fox and about 18" long. My wife thinks I'm crazy, but I remember seeing people hang them from the backs of their bikes.

I started to just buy one or two, but I used Frankie's trick. It's all about the bundling, man!!! :mrgreen:

 

[deven_science]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Tallinn, Estonia Fur Tails

Will you have a problem importing them into the States?

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Tallinn, Estonia Fur Tails

Will you have a problem importing them into the States?

Shouldn't be a problem. I checked it out and it should only be an issue if these were some rare protected animals or if they were made from dogs or cats.

 

[Sphinx]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Tallinn, Estonia Fur Tails

I'm digging this one.

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Tallinn, Estonia Fur Tails

Here is a frozen mini penny farthing

And this bike was so cold the owner knitted a covering for it.

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Kiev Ukraine Outlaw3 RRBer

A couple of years ago I though it was very cool for me to meet up with RRBer Jake a different state.
Well tonight I met up with another RRBer in another country!
Outlaw3 (Ruslan) met my wife and I tonight in Kiev, Ukraine. It was a fun time.
This young guy has some cool bike building skills! I told him he needed to post pics of his earlier builds. His current build is the wicked Firebird TransAm build.

Here we are at the Black Piglet.

 

[KC so-cal]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Kiev Ukraine Outlaw3 RRBer

Cool pics keep them coming 8)

 

[cledry]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Kiev Ukraine Outlaw3 RRBer

Enjoying this thread, always love a bit of arm chair travel.

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Northeastern Europe Bikes - Warsaw Poland Find + Bikes

We have been in Warsaw, Poland for the past few days. I picked up a cool leather saddle at an antique shop.

I tried to get him to sell me the saddle from the one he keeps outside like a sign, but he wouldn't sell it.

I found this very funny in front of the same antique shop. An old army radio advertising Internet.

Cool cargo bike also used to draw peoples attention to the doorway of a business.

Little kids bike in front of the giant Christmas tree presents on the Royal Castle Square.

Cool super wide pedicab.

 

[kingfish254]

After we spent Christmas in Warsaw, we went to Rome, Italy. Here are some pics of bikes and other cool vehicles in Rome.

Sweet red Ducati

Pedicab in piazza in front of the Pantheon.

Weird little shop call Eclectica that had a Harley inside along with some Hitler tin soldiers and this case that reminded me of some of Tanksalots collection.

Old Mini

Cool window decoration

Nice Ferrari on the Via de Propaganda

Pedicab

Decent Dahon clone

SMART car with a SMART truck behind it

Nice Vespa

Another old Mini

This looked like a miniature VW bus to me.

Nothing special about the bike, but I loved the setting for a photo.

 

[Sphinx]

Decent Dahon clone


And "Da honey" ain't bad either!

 

[kingfish254]

More Rome bikes and vehicles.

I was surprised to see a cantilever frame

Nice chrome bike with black Fat Franks

Cool Harley paint job

Nice bike shop that was next to a cafe that we had a wine and a beer at. There were some sweet bikes here. The brand was Romeo and they seemed to be well made.

I couldn't resist taking a photo of this morbid doll shop window. It was really freaky to walk by.

Harley

Cargo moped

Folder

This is for the old guys that remember the funny 70s spaghetti westerns "They Call Me Trinity" and such.

Nice porter rack on this bike.

Kissing SMART cars

I thought this was a pretty cool Mitsibishi truck

Chestnuts roasting on a open fire work trike

Old school U-tube folder

Old Fiat

Morning delivery from our hotel window (only 160 steps from the Trevi Fountain).

I thought the price was too good to be a full size Ferrari!!!!!!!

Nice Brompton folder

Wooden motorcycle

Family on the bridge near the Castle de St Angelo