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Keep that headlight, i love it!  
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| Posted: 21:36 - 17 May 2009 Post subject: |
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i like it, looks like you could drop it a thousand times and it would still look the same, rat bike !!!!!!!! = hardcore  |
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what a flop. 
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| RXS100_Chris wrote: | When considering this project, did your plan look something like this:
1. Take perfectly good bike
2. Spend time and money deliberately making it look like a pile of crap
Rat biking (as far as I understand) is supposed to be about keeping a bike going at minimal cost, not worrying about the cosmetics. Seems to me to deliberately 'rat' a bike like that is the exact opposite of this philosophy.
Like the naked divvy btw. |
Very true. Rat biking and survival bikes are the same but completely different. Rat bike is like you described, kept running at minimal cost, over time will look tatty etc.
Survival bike is just purposely making it look cheap and tacky like the OP has done. It is a special interest look to the bike. Personally I quite like survival bikes  but would have to do it to a bike worth <£300 in the first place.
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| Posted: 07:16 - 18 May 2009 Post subject: |
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I think having the 'before' pics as a different decent nick bike gives the wrong impression to some  shame you've no before pics of the actual bike.
I kinda like it, it is getting more common now (that 'look') but it's still one that would grab my attention whether parked at Tescos or a bike rally, a stock GPZ wouldn't so much.
Very brave using the 'R' word on here though - too much debate for me!!
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| Posted: 23:54 - 18 May 2009 Post subject: |
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nice survival bike, now you can sit back and enjoy the fact that binning the bike will only make it look cooler, so crash damage will never be a problem again.
well thats what i thought when I binned my gpz on the run back from rat and survival on the weekend.
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4 tins of 500ml Halfords paint @ £6.99 a tin used this as it was recommend by ratbike.org to be the hardest wearing and petrol resistant.
half a tin of Hammerite high heat for the exhaust, found in my dads shed left over from when he resprayed his bbq.
Some hammerite black for the swinging arm also from old mans shed.
I live on the Lizard Cornwall and wanted to cover all metal as the sea air eats thru bikes even in the summer and seeing as i have no car licence i need this bike to ride thruout the year. My xj600N has been thru 3 winters now and has been kept in a garage and washed regulaly but is still rusting due to the salt air. rekon the GPZ will fair a lot better  |
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| Posted: 08:05 - 07 Jul 2009 Post subject: |
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It certainly is.... these projects always start with something innocuous...... |
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What about the paint on that white thing near the fork?
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| Posted: 11:28 - 12 Jul 2009 Post subject: |
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I think over the years, the terminology has got lost in the post!
A rat bike is/was traditionally a bike that has been left in a bad state, and has been 'rescued' from the scrap heap and been given a new lease of life.
Your bike, therefore, isn't a rat bike...it's a custom made bike.
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