Year of the Rat ?! RRB Build Off #15 !

[OddJob]

On the Chinese calendar, this is a Year of Metal Rat, starting from the 2020 Chinese New Year on Jan. 25 and lasting to 2021 Lunar New Year's Eve on Feb. 11.

Metal Rat? Are you kidding me??

We have to somehow incorporate this into our RRB Bo #15 this summer! My mind is already swirling with prize ideas, categories for builds, and other funky weird stuff like that.

Anybody else? Bueller? Let's get the ol' brain a stormin' and see what we can come up with.

 

[KJV]

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

What if every bike is required a part from Asia? That shouldn’t be too hard to do....[emoji57]


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[GuitarlCarl]

What if every bike is required a part from Asia? That shouldn’t be too hard to do....[emoji57]


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Harder NOT to do...
Metal Rat huh? Speaking of nots, here I was planning on building a trailer queen...

GC.

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[ifitsfreeitsforme]

it's all been leading up to this.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

CHINESE NEW YEAR 2020 ANIMAL: YEAR OF THE RAT ZODIAC SIGN, MEANING EXPLAINED

BY ANDREW WHALEN ON 1/25/20 AT 8:00 AM EST

“Similar to astrology, the zodiacal Rat is laden with multiple layers of symbolism. Associated with the hour before and after midnight, the rat typically represents new beginnings. They are powerful symbols of fertility, wealth and plenty, so people born in the Year of the Rat are considered to be optimistic, easy-going and kind, if a bit too direct.”

“Lucky associations with the Year of the Rat include the numbers two and three, and the colors gold, blue and green. Meanwhile, the colors yellow or brown and the numbers five and nine can be considered unlucky.”


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[MattiThundrrr]

"the rat typically represents new beginnings.”

Too true, so many rescued bikes!

“Lucky associations with the Year of the Rat include the numbers two and three, and the colors gold, blue and green. Meanwhile, the colors yellow or brown can be considered unlucky.”

So we have the beginnings of a set of requirements: bike or trike, with gold, blue and/or green, yellow and brown need not apply.

Uh oh, does patina and rust count as brown?

 

[OddJob]

I see what you did there. Very subtle.

 

[handyandy1100]

"the numbers five and nine can be considered unlucky.”

Maybe we best skip RRBBO #15? That's three times unlucky ain't it?

 

[sandman]

I ain't eating no rat to bring me luck , so I'll stick with yellow !

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I've eaten a burrito that I found laying on the sidewalk outside of a Taco Bell. Rat can't be much worse...

 

[sandman]

I hope it was still wrapped and not stepped on yet .

 

[furyus]

If RBBO 15 has a Chinese theme, I’ll be forced to go MAGA on principle.

furyus

 

[handyandy1100]

If RBBO 15 has a Chinese theme, I’ll be forced to go MAGA on principle.

furyus

Maybe only Chinese manufactured bikes and parts allowed? LOL

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[sandman]

Like Ecclesiastes 2:11

Maybe only Chinese manufactured bikes and parts allowed? LOL
That wouldn't be hard today .

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Well, that's a little bleak!

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Two months away...
Of course there is a buildoff happening before the Official buildoff. But it's an unlimited contest, with almost no rules, not for the faint of heart. Then again, rat sammiches are in my byline...

Carl.

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[OddJob]

If RBBO 15 has a Chinese theme, I’ll be forced to go MAGA on principle.

furyus

MAGA?

 

[sandman]

One of my favorite treats .

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Question for anyone... When did America stop being great? As your little brother, always stuck in your shadow, I was always under the impression that it never went away. Why do people who wear red hats think America isn't great?