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There is a sense in which all lo-pros are anti porn, since they represent a failure of imagination on the part of road bike manufacturers. The short head tube and upturned bars were a good idea for bikes which would only be ridden with the bars held in the drops position, but it took MTB folk to show that the sloping top tube was silly; just because seat posts had been about 220mm long for decades, there was no law carved in stone that said they had to remain that length forever. Even without tri-bars killing off the need for small front wheels, horizontal top tubes and were always the way to go as soon as 400mm seat posts became available.