Lula & geestring's 2009 Rat Bike

[jafar]

K standing by to see wooly G-string..... :wari: :shutup: it cold down there girls

I saw one made of dental floss once :whocares:

Thin jeebus :shit:

[P38]

Hey Lula, Geestring

Hows that rat bike coming on?

Is it gonna be a runner?

[Pussy]

Yeah... they been a bit quiet. Too quiet!

[Lula]

Yeah... they been a bit quiet. Too quiet!

Calm before the storm my friend....:shifty:

[jafar]

Calm before the storm my friend....:shifty:

Whats the story?:Oops:

[carver]

the story is-MFSC rule!

[jafar]

the story is-MFSC droole!

Fixed your typo for ya mate :woohoo:

[jellywrestler]

[QUOTE=Lula;1129337001]I've just been busy knitting a seat cover for the beast (and a pair of fingerless gloves for myself and geestring to wear at the Cold Kiwi).

QUOTE]
choose your wool carefully to knit your gestring with as it may chaffe you running up the hill climb and there may not be enough room to put a bandaid on...

[puddy]

[QUOTE=Lula;1129337001]I've just been busy knitting a seat cover for the beast (and a pair of fingerless gloves for myself and geestring to wear at the Cold Kiwi).

QUOTE]
choose your wool carefully to knit your gestring with as it may chaffe you running up the hill climb and there may not be enough room to put a bandaid on...
Had a bad experience?:eek:

[Lula]

Whats the story?:Oops:

Ratty is coming to the Cold Kiwi :eek:

Will also be taking the WR250R so Ratty has some company on the journey down. They can discuss how to take on a hill climb while I am riding my 675 down from Dorkland....I'll have 3 bikes so plenty of options to make it up.

See you there...if not be sure to see the video of me falling off something! :pinch:

[idleidolidyll]

Which Ratty?
Both AND the Motocrosser

[caseye]

Hey Lula, thats great news, hope it all goes well and that the woolly G strings don't chaffe! he he.

[cave weta]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=123853&thumb=1&d=1237884202

Nannas pretty good with the crochet hooks- perhaps she can knock something up for you both?

[Lula]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=123853&thumb=1&d=1237884202

Nannas pretty good with the crochet hooks- perhaps she can knock something up for you both?

Thanks Cave Weta I look forward to seeing your Rat Bike. Mine is finally finished and its going to leave rat droppings on all of you!

Cold Kiwi hear comes Ratty!!!!!:devil2::devil2::devil2::devil2::devil2: :devil2:

[carver]

Thanks Cave Weta I look forward to seeing your Rat Bike. Mine is finally finished and its going to leave rat droppings on all of you!

Cold Kiwi hear comes Ratty!!!!!:devil2::devil2::devil2::devil2::devil2: :devil2:

sorry, but i think i have something a bit Beta

[caseye]

LOL yeah butt ewe wood aye carver, go the Lula and G string rat bike.

[carver]

the story is-MFSC rule!

and how right i was

[Cr1MiNaL]

and how right i was

Mate I think the Mega Few won this cold kiwi :cool:

[carver]

Mate I think the Mega Few won this cold kiwi :cool:

I think the Mega-Mormon few won this one

[Cr1MiNaL]

I think the Mega-Mormon few won this one

It's settled then. Thread closed!

[idleidolidyll]

This is Ratty in action.

No, it didn't beat Carvers trials bike but then that was never a contest was it?!

The real challenge is to bring something that had fuck all chance of getting up the hill and giving it a shot anyway. Hell, in the trail bike group Carvers bike belonged to, even an AG100 got up.

Fuck all of the road bikes did though so big reps to you Lula just for having the cojones to try it with an overweight gutless old road bike!

[Thani-B]

Im not the best camera woman, but this is what I got http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KealPI70mg

[Laava]

It was nice too that what it lacked in power and ability, it more than made up for in outright noise and hoon factor! Well done ladies, I enjoyed wtching the show:2thumbsup:

[Thani-B]

And Carver's 2nd attempt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofQJg4Ndgpw

[carver]

This is Ratty in action.

No, it didn't beat Carvers trials bike but then that was never a contest was it?!

The real challenge is to bring something that had fuck all chance of getting up the hill and giving it a shot anyway. Hell, in the trail bike group Carvers bike belonged to, even an AG100 got up.

Fuck all of the road bikes did though so big reps to you Lula just for having the cojones to try it with an overweight gutless old road bike!

of course, despite all the hype.....

haha

[R6_kid]

Badass looking bike! You should bring it out on the ATNR sometime!

[tri boy]

I think the Mega-Mormon few won this one

Wrong.
Ginga Industries showed you lot up in numbers and fun factor. by a factor of ten.

[caseye]

Hey Lula, great to see the RAT going up hill! Nice work and fanatatic effort.See you on Thursday.

[Goblin]

Good shit Lula! :clap: Was an awesome effort!

But, what happend to your G-string?

[Lula]

This years project was so much fun! The thinking that went into it, the talking that went into it, the hunting and gathering that went into it, and the teamwork that went into it!

Most of you will not know this but that was not our original bike…the original bike still sits as stubborn as ever.
A last minute team of us started working on that bike you saw from 9pm on the Thursday night to 5am the Friday morning of the Cold Kiwi. Yes that first attempt at the hill climb was my one and only test run!

With the unknown ahead of me I just jumped on it and gave it my best shot.
There are a number of factors where things went wrong…battery power – the regulator/alternator wasn’t working so no power and the other obvious that I can think of was lack of fuel as the engine was being starved with that little ATV outlet on the tank, but other than that I think that bike is a minter and next year this one will be back with improvements.

I’d like to say a huge thank you to Puddy for finding that GX450 as a back up bike, without his initiative and quick thinking it wouldn’t have happened and at such short notice. Also huge thank you to gstring for all her work and support on making the project happen – with 2010’s model we will have so much more time to build and test, this was definitely the test pilot and we are already talking out next years project.

Big thanks to Gubb for the donation of parts, Korumba for his support and input idleidolidyII for the wiring specialist, Buddha111 for all of his support and transportation, Carver for the windups and SkidMark for the fires. There are a couple of others whose support and help mattered but they shall remain anonymous - they know who they are and how thankful I am for their support.

At the end of the day the Rat Bike project was something gstring and I have always wanted to do – this has been our second attempt so third time lucky right G…?

In conjunction with Motorcycle Trader I am now looking to launch New Zealand’s Rat Bike Movement and we are in discussion with a few organisations including the Cold Kiwi rally to inspire more bike builds like this…after all if Lula and gstring can attempt to build one I’m keen to see what you can come up with…

Go the mighty Rat Bike!

[Laava]

Wrong.
Ginga Industries showed you lot up in numbers and fun factor. by a factor of ten.
So that was you running around with no pants on?

[Lula]

Oh and I forgot to mention that Ratty and I won 3rd prize in the hill climb event! :whistle:

[idleidolidyll]

Ratty and Luana in action again



Oh yeah, Carver made it up the hill on his ring a ding Beta

[Lula]

Cold Kiwi is 5 months away - time to start getting the Rat Bike ready again...woop, woop!

[Goblin]

5 months?!?! Nothing like being prepared eh?

Hope your ratty goes better this time. Will you be bringing your geestring this year?

[motor_mayhem]

At the risk of sounding as stupid as I actually am, what is a rat bike?