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They say that in London you\u2019re never more than six feet away from a rat. Gary Inman – Sideburn Magazine<\/a> publisher\/editor and aficionado of biking subcultures remembers a lost coterie of dark clad urban rebels.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Where once motorcycles offered the working person an intense, but usually manageable, injection of rebellion at virtually every opportunity, there is now a canyon between the real bad \u2018uns, wheelying through sink estates on stolen \u2018crossers, and the rest of us, cowed into submission by the surveillance state and their web of one-eyed NPR snitches.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know we\u2019re supposed to obey the speed limits, and always were, but who is buying a supercharged Kawasaki H2 to do 70mph? So, let\u2019s assume the disobedience of which I write (and crave) while not entirely socially responsible, was exercised when there was both \u2018the time and the place\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Motorcycle subcultures, the street styles that form much of today\u2019s two-wheeled landscape, where born specifically to revel in snatched moments of illegality. Let\u2019s be clear, we\u2019re not outlaws, we\u2019re tax-payers with steam to blow. Caf\u00e9 racers were a lifestyle accoutrement, but one that was derived to be faster than anything on the road, including the police. Streetfighters brought crashed superbikes back from the dead. Choppers turned fairground ride Harleys into the (relatively) lightweight, lane-splitting mounts of highway hellions. All have been co-opted by the industry, adopted by the mainstream, monetised. Rebellion turned into money.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Rat<\/figure>\n

One breed stood apart, quietly encapsulating the daily one-two, eff-you to authority, from the top of their rattle-canned tanks, to the bottom of their filth-caked sump plugs: the rat bike. The rat is an unremarkable model of bike bought cheaply, repaired quickly, transformed artlessly. The original rat bikes, and their owners, did everything possible to stay off radar screens. Nothing, except perhaps a cheap, four-into-one exhaust, attracted attention. Everything, barring brakes discs and light lenses, was painted matt black. Nothing was masked off. Paint as social signifier and Loctite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rat bikes were a product of squat mentality, of hunt saboteur fundraisers, of post-war thriftiness. Invisible in plain sight, and free to push the boundaries just far enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to think of a more anti-establishment internally combusted sub-culture, formed in the UK at least, because rat bikers turned their backs on the consumerism that drove every other cult. Money could not elevate your rat bike, only transform it into something else, because there was no hierarchy, no spotlight to aim for. While they could be fast, a Suzuki GSX1100 rat could try to burst the zip on the rider\u2019s cheap leather jacket at over 140mph, a true rat bike was never a street sleeper. They weren\u2019t a race replica slumming it for effect. That would be seen through. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rats, like their rodent namesakes, evolved to be unobtrusive. If you\u2019re noticing either of them something has got badly out of kilter. Instead, break the law, as a matter of course, with a machine that is as memorable as a patch of tarmac. \u2018Can you describe the motorcycle that passed you?\u2019 It was black. \u2018The make or model?\u2019 Sorry. \u2018What was the rider wearing?\u2019 All black: boots, trousers, jacket, helmet, gloves. \u2018Any distinguishing patches or colours?\u2019 No. \u2018Anything about the bike that stood out?\u2019 [Pause] I\u2019m not being much help am I, officer?<\/span><\/p>\n

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A rat bike in all its glory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a splinter cult, often lumped in with the rat bike milieu, the survival bike, and this is what most people now think of as rats, but the purist in won\u2019t allow. These machines shared the dull paint, but set out to draw attention to themselves with the kind of ancillaries their owners thought might help survive society\u2019s collapse \u2013 panniers made from army surplus ammunition boxes, multiple lights, zombie-spearing subframes, sub-Heath-Robinson suspension and brake assemblies. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bikes that were made to look terrible, impossible, and monstrous. These were awarded the magazine covers they demanded, they entered custom shows, they were Mutoid Waste Company choppers for men who couldn\u2019t talk to women, but they missed the point.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I realise I\u2019ve written much of this article in the past-tense, and that\u2019s because the original rat bike seems extinct. Rat bikes were not built because that\u2019s all the owner could afford. They were a conscious choice, acquired with factory paint and graphics that could have been retained, engine cases that could\u2019ve been polished with Autosol and an old sock. It was a conscious choice. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now there are no longer swathes of hinterland for them to covertly exploit what is the point? Big Brother won. It\u2019s impossible to be an off-the-grid rider in modern Britain. You\u2019re either obeying, or risking jail due to your actions. Or, and I really wish this is true, perhaps I\u2019m not looking in the right places. Perhaps the rats are thriving and I just can\u2019t spot them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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