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@Lukas
Yep, it's cheap, but it's also perfectly adequate for track racing for the majority of riders, and being a bit rough/blunt/heavy/unrefined makes it all the more suited to skidding about like an idiot. How many branded proper track frames in the same price bracket are as well suited to doing both?
If you're saying 'this is to be expected from something so cheap', then I'd completely agree if we were talking about some cheap unbranded far eastern AliExpress import, but because a supposedly reputable company has staked its reputation on it and cocked-up, there's a legitimate reason to have a little whinge on here*.
(*Particularly if the change was signed-off in an ill conceived attempt to add tyre clearance for fannies).
EDIT: forgot to click 'reply' for @edscoble :-)