Show us your worst ugliest built (if you dare)

[Nabeaquam]

The original or first named gravel bike. Gravel Gertie from the late 1970s. Not mine but it’s nearby.

 

[The History Man]

I started at the beginning and I was going to look for the Dyna-tech picture to post it but you beat me to it...

The present pinnacle of personal preference.

 

[The History Man]

Gone all conventional now.

 

[KermitGKona88]

Is this a new use of the word "conventional"¿

 

[The History Man]

Just a relative one.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

So ugly I brought it behind the barn and shot it:
26/20 mullet strider ATB, the Wonky Donkey

 

[CassidyAce]

So ugly I brought it behind the barn and shot it:View attachment 592937
26/20 mullet strider ATB, the Wonky Donkey

That is horrible!

 

[MR OX]

Brought as "Good bike frame" turned out to basically be a bike minus wheels that'd been in the back garden hedge forever, paint flaking in places & pretty ugly. That said put a pair of wheels & tyres, a saddle, a pair of scrappy riser bars & mudguards on it rattled through the running gear & in an afternoon turned it from scrap to a student hack. Sold it the following day

 

[brocklanders023]

This one was built out of spare parts and a frame that need a re-paint to use when Covid hit as my mate had bought a gravel bike. Doesn't look too bad but was rough as guts close up! Didn't let me down though.

 

[Dave_Mars]

Proto gravel hybrid from 2008/9

Actually rode very well, fast with slick rear and comfy with phat front