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i like lo pros. I like the look of them. I particularly like them when they've got tubing that curves somewhere on them. I wanted to build one and ride it and see what it was like. I did. The frame i eventually found in my size was flourescent pink, in columbus slx, and i got it for fifty quid. I got it set up right and with some good stuff and it rides great, really fast, really nippy, so much so that it's a fuckin blast and on top of that i think it looks absolutely awesome. It's great around town and good for thirty miles at least.

I suppose in a way i'm riding it to be on the money and in that sense for every person that thinks it's dope there are probably twenty that think i'm a fashion victim or whatever.. It's a shame cos for me it's about how cool the bike looks, i'm even aware i probably sell it short, with my age and lumbering size.

But what i'm not going to do for a good while is get bogged down in plain, purely functional fair and lust after the kinds of bikes that a section of this forum's old men from the south and west seem to deem worthier and more admirable than the ones being ridden round the east. Give me a choice right now between riding round town on a lo pro and riding round town on two grand's worth of a bike i consider boring and far beyond my needs - well, the latter for me is far more of an affectation.

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