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Old 08-23-2015, 07:59 PM
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Beautiful! Can't get enough of those rat bikes.
 
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I am going to have to disagree on the pictured Harleys as being "Rat Bikes".

Those bikes are contrived, strategically placed can openers and catchy stickers require work.

A true "Rat Bike" is barely kept afloat by some lazy cat, and will have zero unnecessary doo-dads. A Rat Bike represents the pinnacle of a slacker.

Those bikes are obviously painstakingly created, and every single element was thought out beforehand. That is why we like them, we think it is haphazard, but it is art. A true Rat Bike is shitty in every department, aesthetically and mechanically.

Just my take.
 
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Originally Posted by TwiZted Biker
About 2/3 the CVO crowd just went into cardiac arrest over those
I admit I had a compulsive urge to scrub the whitewalls on that old knuck.
 
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