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Look at this awesome machine. Haggled some dude at a garage sale down to $60AUD for it when I was a kid and then proceeded to replace as much as I could with "alloy" because everyone knew alu stuff was better than that heavy steel shit...
Swapped cranks for Sugino, pedals are Bear Trap BMX pedals with the cages removed (I did a lot of barefoot riding), I think the bars are original, the gears were upgraded from 5spd to 6spd and the wheels swapped from steel rims to alu rims. All over the course of 10-15 years.
It wouldn't get out of the big ring, the saddle always tilted during rides and the brakes were not super brakey...
hippy
I left my Apollo unlocked outside the supermarket in Melbourne for 7 years. I think it was the day/week before I left for the UK, one of the security guards wandering around the centre said I couldn't leave bikes here. I just said something like "7 years bro" and carried on with life.
It was a rad / piece of shit Apollo though