Rat Patrol vs. Human Television Network
The Human Television Network is a fleet of TV bikes designed for portable live media displays. We invited them to come on a Rat Ride. They brought the bikes but left the TVs at home, instead, they had a kickin' PA on a tadpole trike. And, of course, Pinky:
The TV goes where the passenger is sitting.
We figured out that the passenger could pedal if he sat belowdecks.
Monkey Tag Ride
Most of this ride was spent playing monkey tag in a playground until the cops chased us away.
Stockyards Ride
After the build day, we ventured into the vast and vacant Chicago stockyards, once the largest in the world. We were towing a bikeless Gutter Bunny, and by the end of the night another Rat plus two halves of a chopper...
This was the stockyards firehouse, now it sits vacant waiting for some huge industrial project to come in and wipe it out.
This is the mural outside the stockyards of the happy pig, chicken, and cow dancing to slaughter.
That circle would be a slice of dumpster salami.
Build Day 112004
Magic Bean Ride
Chunkolini of the RPUK is obsessed with photographing reflective surfaces. We wanted to get a picture of the Rat Patrol in front of the Cloud Gate, aka "the bean". But the guards chased us away so we had to take the pictures from the street.
We stopped by the Sugar Train, a delicious tanker of corn syrup delivered twice a week to the Peerless Confectionary.
Mmmm, DELICIOUS TRAIN!!!!!!!
Yes, that's a horse in a yard in Chicago.
Puke Ride
We were all distraught from the election results and decided to have a puke ride... the idea was to drink until we puked.
"Guys, I don't think that's whiskey..."
This mysterious building was labeled "City Services" and was located in the middle of the block... it has no address!
*shrug*
I assume this is something Tallmartin pulled out of the scrapyard.
Check out M23's voluminous dreads.
