Ugly bicycle spotting, 2

OK, so the weather here's crap, it's only about 10° (Celsius. Of course. If you live in a country that still persists on using some other archaic unit of measurement for temperature, I suggest you write to your government and complain. Celsius rules!), and it's rainy and windy. To top that, my bicycle is squeaking, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. The chain is all oiled up (twice!) and I even took apart the rear derailleur and re-greased the jockey wheels... it didn't change a thing. So next week, on Tuesday, I'll be off to the only bike shop that I let near my Heli. (The guy who owns it only keeps it open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.) And until then...I'll just be concentrating on other-not-necessarily-bicycle-related stuff. But this is a bicycle blog! So why not continue with ugly bicycle spotting?

We have stated that we think that people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone else. We're really not into all these rules, stating what you must and can't do. You have to wear your eyeglasses temples outside the helmet straps, you can't use a saddle bag, blahblahblah... That's rubbish. If you want to participate in a road bicycle race and you ride a hybrid bicycle, wear a mountain bike helmet, your eyeglasses temples outside the helmet straps (unless it's a full face helmet, of course), a 100% cotton t-shirt and your have a backpack as well, we will fully support your wish to do so. Rules are made to be broken. As long as you have fun, you are doing things right.

And we have fun looking at ugly bikes. Again: We don't mean to be mean or to hurt anyone's feelings. If you do get hurt by our posts, please tell us so and we will stop. And if your reaction is that our bikes are just as ugly as they are crappy, that's cool too. You can tell us that. We think that there's a place in this world both for really ugly as well as really good-looking bikes. And we all have different opinions about what's beautiful and not.

We think this is a really ugly bike:

 (Super-functional, though! This mudguard is homemade, cut out of grey plastic.)

(This part looks homemade too. And actually that's skilled!)

(We're not so sure about the position of the shifters. It could be a more comfortable solution than having the shifters on the down tube, but it looks really weird. And if you want a narrow handlebar, why not go for a road handlebar with drops?)

Ride safe!