chunkolini
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Hi guys
Badersbus top man, the whole secret about this bikes nonsense is doing it on the cheap. I reckon a typical build costs in the region of £3.00 unless we have to stump up for tubes to build forks. We only use the best, ERW seamed exhaust tubing, wall thickness about 2mm or so, Real high end tubing. Again never had a frame collapse, I have ridden my chopper down flights of steps, jumped and generally abused it chronically. I did the kill the first forks by jumping it though. Stopped that happening with this little addition. This makes for an indestructible fork, I have even endoed this bike sadly no photos, the back end was about 8ft up in the air.
I wil check out the dates of this years Klunker Classic, a bonkers downhill race or ****e bikes down Porlock Hill, a stupid drunken affair, usually won by knobs riding BMX bikes, I have managed 6th twice on a home built chopper. The racing is close indeed a contact sport, the people are all mad. More info to follow. I will also organise another Ratrace this year. see this link http://www.rat-patrol.org/RPUK/RatRace.html stupid stupid stupid.
also the second Klunker classic
http://www.rat-patrol.org/RPUK/Clunker.html
as well as other adventures.
Baddersbus, the link above is to another site by my mate Johnny Payphone, a living legend. mail him and say Hi etc etc. See him eating fresh bunny meat on the Ratrace link.
Now a warning to Baddersbus, What awfulness have you done to those poor bikes? The top one is a thing of beauty in it's abused naked splendour, like a poem in steel. The others????? what is that bizarre substance you have covered them in? spme okind of organic paste substance with weird pigments mixed into it? just what is it? It can be healthy. These bikes are like (some) people, they look best Nekkid.
Chopping older bikes? a bad move some of them are luged frames, cut into them and there is nothing to weld onto. Also some old bikes are nice. But the 70 quid supermarket bike is a thing of beauty, a blank canvas, a wench begging to be sullied by your angle grinder and made your own.
Another great thing about all this nonsense, we all get together a couple of times a year, families and all. It is great for the wivies to meet other folks who's men are as crap as theirs, it helps them to feel a bit normal for a day or two.
Repeat after me in a deep droning voice
Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike.
Just make it a proper one, not like the usual thing where one bike is stacked atop another. Ugly ugly ugly.
Badersbus top man, the whole secret about this bikes nonsense is doing it on the cheap. I reckon a typical build costs in the region of £3.00 unless we have to stump up for tubes to build forks. We only use the best, ERW seamed exhaust tubing, wall thickness about 2mm or so, Real high end tubing. Again never had a frame collapse, I have ridden my chopper down flights of steps, jumped and generally abused it chronically. I did the kill the first forks by jumping it though. Stopped that happening with this little addition. This makes for an indestructible fork, I have even endoed this bike sadly no photos, the back end was about 8ft up in the air.
I wil check out the dates of this years Klunker Classic, a bonkers downhill race or ****e bikes down Porlock Hill, a stupid drunken affair, usually won by knobs riding BMX bikes, I have managed 6th twice on a home built chopper. The racing is close indeed a contact sport, the people are all mad. More info to follow. I will also organise another Ratrace this year. see this link http://www.rat-patrol.org/RPUK/RatRace.html stupid stupid stupid.
also the second Klunker classic
http://www.rat-patrol.org/RPUK/Clunker.html
as well as other adventures.
Baddersbus, the link above is to another site by my mate Johnny Payphone, a living legend. mail him and say Hi etc etc. See him eating fresh bunny meat on the Ratrace link.
Now a warning to Baddersbus, What awfulness have you done to those poor bikes? The top one is a thing of beauty in it's abused naked splendour, like a poem in steel. The others????? what is that bizarre substance you have covered them in? spme okind of organic paste substance with weird pigments mixed into it? just what is it? It can be healthy. These bikes are like (some) people, they look best Nekkid.
Chopping older bikes? a bad move some of them are luged frames, cut into them and there is nothing to weld onto. Also some old bikes are nice. But the 70 quid supermarket bike is a thing of beauty, a blank canvas, a wench begging to be sullied by your angle grinder and made your own.
Another great thing about all this nonsense, we all get together a couple of times a year, families and all. It is great for the wivies to meet other folks who's men are as crap as theirs, it helps them to feel a bit normal for a day or two.
Repeat after me in a deep droning voice
Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike Tallbike.
Just make it a proper one, not like the usual thing where one bike is stacked atop another. Ugly ugly ugly.