Now for Something Completely Different

And by "Something Completely Different" I mean to instill the sort of borderline dread and anticipation of madness that Monty Python induced. These are not the sort of bikes we usually enjoy and celebrate around here. They are the sort that we look at and say "I really wouldn't want to ride it, but damn that looks fun." Kustom Kulture meets bicycles.

Rat Rod Bicycles in all their glory. Go visit the site, there are lots of guys playing with these things and God bless 'em. I'm sure there are some collectors of old balloon tire bikes who hate to see this stuff. But like the guys hacking old lightweights a lot of these bikes have been abused and corroded to the point of not being good for anything else. Most were never any damn good in the first place.

Looking around the Rat Rod Bikes I notice a lack of pinstriping. They need to get on that.

This is Simply Beautiful

And, it's an amazingly cool bike. This is not at all the sort of bike that usually interests me, aside from the accessories on this one, but the ultimate of anything is interesting and this is the ultimate cruiser bike. It inspires me. Oh, and it would be fun to break out the pinstriping sword and go at that bicycle frame too.

Many more photos and some history on this freaky cool bike.

Edit: A coworker tells me the perfect name for the style of this bike "Ray-gun Deco." Love it. Perfect name. Now I'm back to staring at that photo again.

Vintage Cycling Posters

Courtesy of Clockwork Bikes I found this great collection of vintage cycling posters all collected up in a zip file ready for download and total cyclogasmic enjoyment.

Take a look around I hadn't heard of them before but the photo's of their work are very impressive. I didn't give a direct link to the posters, because I think anybody cool enough to provide something like this deserves a good look.