Originally the Rat Bike concept involved starting out with a pretty standard bike and slowly, over the years, fixing and rebuilding it until it had become an almost completely different bike. True Rat Bike enthusiasts tend to be more concerned with ingenuity and creativity than flashy chrome. They tend to appreciate fixes to problems that fly in the face of conventional wisdom and so no two Rat Bikes are the same
Recently the Rat Bike aesthetic has been used when building brand new custom bikes and sometimes hard to tell a true Rat Bike from a bike that was just built to look like one. Building a fake rat, as they are called, kind of fly in the face of the organic growth of the whole idea.
Smitty here, has one of the best, true Rat Bikes I’ve ever seen. He loves the thing, it’s like a home to him, and it shows.
