Everytime I set out to build one, for riding to the shops, locking and not worrying, the project eventually gets off course.

It starts with searching for cheap mid level used frames and parts but soon strays and becomes a quest to create porn.

So now it's cheap highend equipment. Super Record this, NJS that, as much NOS as possible.

And when done there's a beautiful bike but not one you'd want to leave anywhere unattended.

So I'm right back where I started.

Am I just lacking self control? Am I the only one?

No one would steal the cuntster.. it's fuckin' ugly.. that was the intention.
It's not exactly a beater though coz that muppet murtle decided barboned up forks would be a good idea :) If it does get nicked.. I can't wait to show the insurance guys the photos of the bike :)

I think most people who've seen my workbike, the very Ill pompino, would say it's a genuine beater.

when hippy's cuntster and that get locked up in the same place, great things happen.

:)

What do you call those hose clamp things? Pure class!

Jubilee clips!!

hehehe that's right! what a stupid fucking name for hose clamps! hahaha ;)

it's a fucking wicked name, it's the bishop's cock of a name

You love it.. but only because it's wrapped around your tube.
You love anything that holds onto your tube tight.. Jubilee ahahahahahaha

Where do you put them?

over the gaping hole in his frame

round your balls

caused by an angry ginger friend of ours, while trying to remove a seatpost from his seat tube with a screw driver and a hammer...very funny.

come along to polo and check out some of the true beaters there

bad paint jobs / 1970 heavy steel weinmann rims / stems / handlebar combinatons that should have been put down at birth

polo bikes have nothing on RPMS Pompshitno... its realy bad... he has a beaten, not a beater.

um...from memory... I don't think it has one whole sticker on it.
and like the above says i think it currently sports 3 jubilee clips... pretty beaten

if you start off by calling it a project, your headed for trouble. why the fck are they called projects anyway? is this business talk creeping into the scene? do people call it a project so that they can put it in their CVs?

just build a bike to ride. full stop.

Oi!
Remember - Well, prob not to you, but...

if you want to make a beater, get every part for free!

and i think rob or mikes polo bikes win in the beater stakes, i rewelded them both with a MIG!

for a beater you should have to build it with bits from the shed no l.b.s. purchases / no ebaying no swapsies !!

I had a beater, I beat it and it bent.
Now I'm going to start riding the Bridgestone all the time.

Bit of a jump but to be honest I' m quite glad it happened as now I might actually get my moneys worth out of the Bridge.

It's either that or literally get my moneys worth by selling it and build something less keirin. (But still nice)

Definitely the beatest of the beat! (don't forget about the missing link...)
I think the most expensive thing on it was the cranks for a fiver. The frame is so bent sometimes the back wheel scrubs the right seatstay and the left chainstay. When that happens I just kick the rim back straight again.

A sadly true thread. My 'beater' is probably considered better looking than my 'nice' bike.

yeah that white one you fashioned from a CANNON is a real piece of shit. ;)

I suffer from this affliction

started off with f+f with headseat seatpost and saddle all for £15 at a jumble. roberto kindly drove it back to london for me. then a free wheelset + cheap stem/bar + old chain, a bb and a nice set of SR cranks i got for £30 at the same jumble. done.

That's not a cassette btw.. it's just sprockets squashed in there for chainline purposes. Cranks from the shop's bin.

I've gone on a different tack...

Used to ride everywhere on old MTB.
Got an ebay road bike, old MTB became the beater.

Got a newer frame, old frame gets second rate parts and becomes the beater, MTB gets it's gears back and a bit of a clean up.

Next logical step... Get new frame again...etc.

I was quite rude to a builder once, does that count?

That would be beating a builder, assuming you hit him!

The last beater project started fine and cheap. £11 for a KHS frame with all the small bits.


Then lucked into a pair of cheap tied & soldered wheels.


And just like that it's no longer a beater project because those wheels can't go with that frame.

Off course again.

my third build, and my favourite, much less flash than previous ones. its basically a beater if you don't count the dura ace rear hub. just wanted a decent rear wheel for future projects.

@snoops: Your goose is giving me the evil eye. tell him to stop, please!

oh man that thing scares the shit out of me, check this one out

@ snoops, that is not what i would call a beater! looks reealll purdy. that the frame you procured on ebay?

@ dmczone with regard to the OP, i did exactly the same, part by part. From a total shitheap to a sparkling swan. Now looking into locks.