Do we have a Franken bike thread?

[February]

Nature adores a freak, so do I. The good, the bad, the ugly or just plain weird.... Do we have a thread for pics of our beautiful uglies?

 

[m@Robertson]

no. Make one.

 

[February]

I'm afraid I have no pics of former builds to display.

 

[m@Robertson]

<charlieBrown>*sigh*</charlieBrown>

 

[gromike]

This is my most fraken bike to date. A TSDZ2b on a bike that came out of a pile of junk bike stuff, and it has my first battery build:

 

[JRA]

This was ugly but effective BITD before batteries made the leap to being efficient.

 

[February]

Those both look like they would be fun to ride. I built a gas powered bike when it was less expensive than an electric build. She was a beauty. Started out as hybrid commuter. Nothing funnier than some one walking up to you and asking what kind of enduro is that and answering, "a Schwinn." Some day I would love to buy a mid drive ebike.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

I found this scooter in a junk pile on the side of the road. I was able to get it going by borrowing 3 12v SLAs and running the 24v brushed motor at 36v. That was fun and I won the challenge of getting it to work without spending a dime. Since that was all fun, I bought a 36v 20ah battery, and asked for an 8” solid tire hub motor for Xmas. I later found some MTB handlebars and added the kids scooter handlebars. Then I crudely made a wooden deck so the kid doesn’t have to step on the controller. This was fun, but it’s gutted now as I sold the battery and got a big boy scooter.

This POS was fun to learn on and the kid was very proud of me to get it in this working state.

It originally was a Sharper Image CityBug from 2007.

Here it is when I had got it running with the 3 SLAs

And here it is when I changed to a lithium battery and bldc motor.

 

[February]

Thats pretty cool. I was chased by someone on a gas powered razor scooter decades ago. Dude was driving in the middle of a back road doing 20 in a 55 zone. I was so angry, god forgive me, I did it safely, but I cut the guy off cause I was already late and he was purposely messing with me. How do I know? As soon as I went around him on a turn, that creation of his which looked like it would fall to pieces in a strong wind turned out to be a sleeper! Dude caught up with me going 50 mph. had to go 60 to lose him. Man was he angry. To this day, I don't know what engine he slapped on that thing or how on earth he maintained control and didn't crash. for clarification your scooters look like large suvs compared to whatever he was driving. it was maybe half the size of yours at best with some kind of gas powered 2stroke engine.

 

[Chargeride]

I visited a museum with my dad and found one of these on a bicycle.
Had loads of those he said, you could get 40mph with the wind behind you.

Theres nothing new under the sun.

 

[6zfshdb]

Mine started life as a 2018 Pedego Platinum Interceptor and morphed into it's present configuration:

 

[PCeBiker]

I have a Fugly E-bike,..

I managed to get my handlebars where I wanted them, but it sure looks tarded.

It looks a little better with the windshield.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Calling @Chargeride : Please ask AI what a Franken ebike and a plain old ugly ebike look like.

Interested to see how many gratuitous girls it throws in. Pretty clear by now that AI graphics generators are designed and schooled by 20-something males.

 

[m@Robertson]

I named this bike 'frankenbike' because it was made up entirely of parts taken off of another ebike when I upgraded it. Only the frame was new. Based on the photo date and knowing this pic was taken on the first ride, that means I built it in May 2017. This was the one and only time I stripped, sanded and then primer'd/painted a frame myself. Took 'em to a powder coat shop and let them do the work after that. Frame color was matched to 'MFP Yellow' which you might have to google to get the (very small) joke.

By September of that year I had added a front rack and basket bars, and was using the bike for grocery runs like this one; my first. I gave this bike to a friend and she still commutes occasionally over dirt roads to work on it in Arizona.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Then there is whateverthefuckthisthingis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frankenbike/s/Db2bGYDfM9

 

[PCeBiker]

I searched it,..

I like this one,..
It just needs a motor and battery.

I think you have to climb the rungs to get up on it??

 

[February]

Then there is whateverthefuckthisthingis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frankenbike/s/Db2bGYDfM9

Looks like an ebike combined with a sex harness for a paraplegic.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Then there is whateverthefuckthisthingis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frankenbike/s/Db2bGYDfM9

I think the less we know about this, the better.

 

[PCeBiker]

Holy Crap !!!
I Love This Thing !!!

I'd pay $20 to try and ride that thing.

If it's built right, I should be able to ride it no-hands.
I need to study the geometry.

The chain line looks right.

I wonder how many motors and batteries you could attach to it?
If it had a throttle, you could lift your legs and ride through 3 foot deep puddles without getting your feet wet.
You could install a BBS02 in the upper bottom bracket to keep it above the waterline.

@Ravi Kempaiah is making waterproof batteries that can be submerged in water, so you can install them below the waterline.

@fooferdoggie That's a tandem Frankenbike, you should get one.
You'd be up top so you could ride through a 3 foot deep puddle.
Just tell your wife that it didn't look deep??

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Googled "tim burton style bicycle":