Rat Bikes, Chicago!

While in Chicago, I stayed at a house and was stoked to see a tallbike with Rat Patrol written on it back in the bike room.  I also saw a nice chopper and pile of etc. bikes.

Vintage Tallbikes

Johnny Payphone has a great webpage about vintage tallbikes with lots of pictures and a bit of thier history as lamp-lighting and advertising devices.  Also on the page is a vintage ultimate wheel using a pennyfarthing-type wheel.

Link.

Check this out for sure.

Rat Patrol History

Johnny Payphone wrote a pretty silly history of thier Chicago-based Rat Patrol freakbike gang.  Lots of funny old freakbike pictures on there.

Link.

Winifred

One of Johnny Payphone's Penny Fakethings.  Johnny has a little website with plenty wierdo PennyFarthings. 

Chain Gangs

Some Chicago newpaper article about the local bike gangs. Features Rat Patrol and Human Television Network. 

Full article here.  

Via Johnny Payphone's blog.

BIKE (club) (the movie)

I would love to watch this.  I wonder if they ever acutally made it...