FrEaK BiKeS!!!!

[IrishManson]

lol

 

[Grant]

Not mine.

 

[Retro Flutter]

I built this weird thing out of Modern and vintage spare road bike and MTB parts. Still sitting in my basement as a WIP. Carbon fork, vintage steel fenders, chineseum rear SS/fixed wheel, front is a Funtec or something hub and Alexrim DA22, vintage rocket chainring, Shimano 600 cranks and other random bits.

Fork is off another bike, frame is steel...but the white colors just matched so well.

 

[wheelbender6]

I did a ride with the local Freak Bike chapter a few years back in Scottsdale,AZ. We did the Indian Bend bike path. I had a tricked out cruiser but I had nothin compared to those Freak Bike guys. Tons of fun.

 

[Grant]

It is not mine but I think it fits here.

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

That ‘design’ is just asking for an endo. I pray Darwinism comes into play.....


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[Captain Awesome]

That ‘design’ is just asking for an endo. I pray Darwinism comes into play.....


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Or at least a very "Back To The Future" type collision with the tail end of a manure truck

 

[GuitarlCarl]

I think some of these last few bikes really aren't FREAK BIKES per se. As mixed heritage as they are doesn't make them a freak bike. I believe that moniker is reserved for Tall bikes, burritos and other mongrels that use frames in a way not originally meant and that it takes a welder to fabricate. This "Small Tall" is a freak bike (not mine)

If you look for Freak Bikes in a search you don't come up with many Road Bikes. Freak Bikes forums on Facebook don't highlight Road Bikes as freaky as they may be... But it is a genre that is hard to pin down, almost as hard as qualifying a Rat. There may well be a type of Road Bike I am unaware of that are distinctly called freak bikes...
That said, I believe my builds Harlequin T, Sketchy and both versions of ALiEN FiRE all qualify but none of the other crazy builds I've done here do, as they lean towards being heavyweight cruisers re-imagined as speedsters.

But then again it's just an opinion...

Carl.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Thanks Carl. I was starting to wonder if freak bikes was a category of road bike builds using unusual parts. And I still love Alien Fire. Both versions.
Not mine, but freaky:

https://locojoe.com/blog/tag/freak-bike/

 

[rev106]

Some bicycle chariots...

 

[MattiThundrrr]

^freak bikes meet bike freaks! Freaky!!

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Thanks Carl. I was starting to wonder if freak bikes was a category of road bike builds using unusual parts. And I still love Alien Fire. Both versions.
Not mine, but freaky:
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https://locojoe.com/blog/tag/freak-bike/

I do like this bike. Take a good look at it, not only a flipped frame but a swing bike as well!

GC.
Also I forgot about Zombie's Dream and Muscle Spasm, both freak bikes I built as well...

 

[rev106]

A few pics from my last Choppercabras event in 2015...

There's years worth of wacky freak bikes here if you're trapped in a snow storm right now, enjoy.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=choppercabras

 

[Grant]

Guy in my town rides this.

 

[Grant]

How about I start it off subtle.. It can only get stranger...

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I really love this design.

 

[mikeeebikey]

I feel like my current build in the WBO is a FrEaK BiKe.View attachment 46411 View attachment 46412 View attachment 46413 View attachment 46414
The Harlequin, a work in progress...

Guitarl.

Mclovin the Dr. Seuss!

 

[whitecoyote]