grant40

This is a classic tweaker build. Spray painted Walmart 20 inch full suspension bike, Walmart fork for a 26 inch wheel, no rear shock, drop bars with electricaltapeas bar tape, singlespeed rear wheel, weird chain on the fork, BMX pegs, and the rear brake was operated by just pulling on the cable, which was zip tied to the top tube. It makes me mad that someone would steal a kids bike. This thing was locked up with a padlock and chain. The frame has major dents in it like they were made with a hammer.

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Mojo31

I'll take the tires and tubes if you are.

SkinGriz

Where you at?

I could use the “stupid *****” step through frame.

Chuck M 

Sadly I think there will be a rise in the theft of Walmart and other lower tier bikes not just from kids. But from people fighting rising gas prices buying them to just possibly be able to get to work.

And I don't know if it is true or not, but what I'm told is, bikes like these ridden by young adults with backpacks are a means of selling drugs on the street.

rsbob 

Tweener or Tweaker? Someone tweaking on a bike would be something to see, or not.

PDKL45

I think it's a pic of a tweaker nest, the "stupid" frame that is. Dismantling bikes and buggering about with parts keeps the hands moving while on meth, hence a bunch of stolen bikes being reduced to parts which are left in a messy pile. The object is occupying hands with a repetitive task rather than anything else.

curbtender

Reminds me of my working days. I pull up to a hamburger joint to dump their trash and an overnight cleaning employee was getting fired for dismantling the milkshake machine.

mstateglfr 

It is rare that I see this genuinely asked- what is the point of this thread? I really cant guess and feel confident the guess is correct. Why post this?

LarrySellerz

Nice find, I rescued a bike once with the craziest clown seat, was very soft with a bunch of duct tape. Coworker commented that it looks like a crackhead made it

veganbikes

I think Grant just loves posting bikes with issues or that look different. I don't think their threads have a point it is just needing to post a new thread to post a new picture with no text or anything useful to discuss.

shelbyfv

How does one distinguish a Tweaker bike from a DUI/Bum bike?

JohnMorgan

‘Make it go away, Mummy’.

grant40

A bike ridden by someone with a DUI or someone who is homeless is a bike of pure practicality and is carrying stuff around. A tweaker bike is just a bunch of parts slapped together in ways that do not make sense.

grant40

The reason for posting as I thought that these were really interesting.

grant40

The 5 images in my 2nd post are actually at a local Co-Op that receives a lot of stolen bikes and a lot of times they get messed up and the owners don't want them back so they just put them in this back area for them to be thrown away. There are a number of bikes in the area that are just spray painted poorly. But the largest amount of bikes there are just Walmart bikes that kids grew out of or people don't want anymore.

grant40

What isn't shown in the picture is that the seat tube is completely damaged from riding the seat post above minimum insertion.

veganbikes

Sure maybe but post something with them or just make one thread for all of them. Give someone something to talk about not just pictures. Why are these bikes interesting to you and what are your thoughts on them rather than just pictures of bikes with issues.