Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes. There are only so many ways to build a track bike. Yet inventive fabricators always seem to find ways of pushing preconceived notions, and creating something extraordinary.
This custom build from Belgium builder Antoine Hotermans of McFly Customs brings together sugar, spice, and everything nice, to create one of the coolest track bikes we’ve ever featured.
Images of this bike have been floating around for several months, but some of Antoine’s latest projects (featured further down the post) brought the bike back to our attention. You have to admit, even if it is a “repost” in some circles, this is a bike worth looking at twice.
Many of the custom finishes on the bike are components that have been scavenged from the scrap bin. For instance, these bar ends were once handles on a Citröen.
Custom engraved Campagnolo cranks
More recently, Antoine has been working on this rat rod barn find project.
It’s a simple build anyone with access to a bike coop or eBay could replicate, yet it stands out.
Antoine is currently working on a host of other projects at the moment, so give his Facebook page at McFly Custom a follow to see more!
Probably still too much advanced technology for BR commenters.
Now this guy is having fun with bicycles. That is what it is supposed to be about….
Should add disk brakes.
dig his style
Not hipster enough…
I approve. Funky, cool and a touch of well matched style.
Inspiring!
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The first bike kinda screams: “I think you better pass on stealing this bike, you can try, but you’re not going to like what happens next…”
Just because it is a single speed, doesn’t make it a track bike. Cool bike as art though.
Can we please stop calling all fixed gears “track bikes”?
Love how much this guy clearly loves two wheels and is having fun.
Dig it. I’d ride the hell out of those rigs.
BR “Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes. There are only so many ways to build a track bike.”
Good to know, because this is not one of those ways….. its a single speed/fixed gear/fixie.
digging the down tube!
Rat Rods was one of the worst fads to come out of the hot rod culture and stemmed from a complete misunderstanding of the culture by outsiders. Please god let this disease die.
When you build a pile of sh*t to look cool, you’ve still built a pile of sh*t.
Speed holes!
Cannondale synapse split seat tube
Canyon Aeroad seatstays
And Specialized lawyers said they put a feather in the seat back in 1976!
This gonna be an expensive bike, even made out of rubbish, if Antoine Hotermans has to pay all those legal fees!!!
Anyway, beautiful urban fixie!
Bet that first one whistles when you get it up to speed.
Looks Flexy
you didnt say anything about gravel or grinding.
I agree with Robo. But of course it’s all about personal taste. Plus, I’ve never built a bike myself, so who am I to criticize?
200 points for the seagull feather! I like all bikes, even funkenstein bikes like this.
This thing is begging for a pair of hand-scribbled carbon wheels. SPONSORED BY SHARPIE.
damn, i wonder how much the first one weighs, looks like .065 tube
Love it!! Bikes should be fun and this stuff is fun. Sure, not for me but I appreciate it and as we are working on some frames with a builder, what becomes more and more apparent is to just do what YOU want to do and forget the rest – there will always be lovers and haters for whatever you do, and the world is a pretty big place.
Meh, Rat Rods are lean, capable yet unrefined, paired down interpretations of speed. These just look clunky.
Nice departure from the “latest and greatest”.
I really like the crankset engraving…and on the whole the creativity.
Just what I want to ride a bike that will give me tetanus…