latest additions - 20 October 2007

• Random BMW Ratter spotted in Amsterdam
• yet another CX500, this time from Wales
• very weird streamlined Yamaha Riva 125 (US)
• couple of anonymous submissions: Beemer and Sporty ''old school rats''

• Nimbus 750 "genuine rat" (Denmark)
• weird MZ 250 feet-forward conversion (Denmark)
• cool Ford Bronco Survival Truck (NM, USA)
• VW Passat powered 1.8 litre monster bike (Uruguay)
• latest version of Ringo's Honda Hornet (UK)
• is this Trike the biggest garbage wagon ever? (US)
• very black Honda CX500
• Virago sidecar combination (UK)
• some very strange machines from the Dranouter Folk Festival in Belgium
• Goldwing rat of unknown pedigree (UK)
• Yamaha 100 in a scrapyard in Norfolk (UK)
• 1970 FL ex police bike (OR, USA)
• Guzzi rat bagger (USA)
• Dr Death's Suzuzki 550 (UK)
• Goldwing at the 1986 Kent Custom Show (UK)
• Volkswagen Trike from Brazil
• 'Black Widow' VF750 Honda (Ireland)
• single-cylinder diesel powered Suzuki GSX with a deckchair as a seat - Weird! (Sweden)
• 3 Volkswagen Bikes from Sweden
• Mama's Wild Child - another rat bike sculpture
• a little 100cc Suzuki with a very big seat, from Uruguay
• way rundown Virago spotted in Utah
• ZAZ V4 trike from Estonia
• sculpture/garden ornament/whatever from the Bulldog Bash
• another rat bike sculpture from New Zealand
• weird Suzuki from the Dutch TT
• a bunch of anonymously submitted pictures:
  • East German(?) Trike
  • BSA and Triumph at a bike show in the US
• Two Hondas from The Netherlands
• Scary Skeleton Yamaha
• Suzuki & Harley from Germany
• Survivalist GSX Suzuki
• Reliant engined sidecar combo
• weird trike on a mountain
• bikes from Poland: ZAP - Jawasaki + Dnepr
• couple of Honda drags/chops
• Goldwing chopper(ish)
• Honda (we think) rat chopper from the excellent Social Deviate site
• CBX550 and CX500 Hondas from Anthony at www.custombike.org
• German CX500 Honda combination
• CX500 Honda from Germany. check that "side panel"...
• skelleton trike at the 1995 Glastonbury Festival (26k)
• Rover V8 rat bike from New Zealand. "Used daily & lots of fun"
• Canadian Shovel
• 5 hardcore Dutch Harleys (page ©Bikin' Dutchman)
• Tough Scottish Survival V4 (32k, ©)
• Bodger's Albion home made BSA V-Twin (page ©)
• Kawa Z500, staff vehicle of the Swedish MCM magazine. (22k)
• Also from MCM: Russian 175cc snow-trike (40k)
• Tony's sensible family car: a king-size Rover trike (23k+20k)
• Scary Skelleton Honda Twin (46k)
• Das Ratbike from Germany. Looks like a Honda... (22k+11k)
• From a coffee-table-book entitled 'Custom Bikes': a Harley (Smitty's Knuck?) and something with a strange engine, both in Daytona some years back. Nice book if you happen to like chrome-and-paint bikes. (32k each. Custom Bikes by Peter Henshaw ©1994 Regency House Publishing, London)
• Triumph that thinks it's a Sportster. (38k, from Ray)
• Confirmation has finally arrived that this 750/4 SOHC Honda is the FutureBike, built and owned by Nik from Back Street Heroes magazine (48k, ©)
• Couple of pics I know nothing about: Ford powered trike and a bike with a sidecar. From Neil. (14k each)
• Hardtail'd Yamaha XT500, built by Troll from Llanelli in Wales (23k)
• Two pictures of the "Rattler" CZ, built by Len of Fang of the Frog MCC. (2x17k) © JB
• Honda CX 500 or 650, which started life as a SilverWing (where's all the plastic gone?) (47k, © JB)
• Some more photos by JB (aka Guy Fawkes) of the Sickle Shack. Sadly no Info on the bikes. (all < 30k, © JB)
  1920's Indian Scout - GS750 Suzuki - SOHC Honda Four
  Reliant Trike - OrangeVirago - BMW R 100 from Iceland (with Mustang tank and Swedish forks)

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