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@Velocio
For that... it is wonderful.
In the middle of trying to attain 'killer angles' and a cool brakeless look a hell of a lot of people forget the utility and comfort which were part of the draw to cycling in the first place. And fashion doesn't strengthen a community, it creates cliques and elitist hierarchies that help pull it apart. The fun of doing stuff and the welcoming of all is what helps, which means looking at this bike and saying to yourself, yeah, it's a pretty good job at an off-the-peg and that we have to admit that most of us have some of those components and would choose them again.
If someone turned up to a ride on one I'm more than likely to be asking them how it handled, how comfortable it is, and whether they love it. The rest is just fashion and fashion will pass and we'll look back and wonder what the fuck we were thinking (recalls white deep-V's only a year or so ago).