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@Black_Rainbow_Project
Some things never change!
Reading all this shit talk about the 'sacrilegious' po-lopro is hilarious!
To all you folks getting your panties in a bunch over what has happened to the Orrell...It's one of fucking hundreds of lo-pros that would have gone the same way as the majority of other lo-pros which have been bought and sold through ebay and this very forum.
Everybody wets their pants when they see curvy tubes and a garish 8O's paintjob which is still intact and they have dreams of owning one...so they buy one, spend months searching for a perfect 24" or 65Oc front wheel...usually make do with an old box section wolber which doesn't match their rear H+son, but oh well, the 4" rise bars will help...then they ride them to the pub a few times before deciding that their backs hurt too much, and then they re-sell them to another forum member with dreams of owning one to fully rebuild to it's former glory....they then spend months hunting down the period correct parts and disc wheels....then they ride it to the pub a few times before deciding their backs hurt too much and the cycle continues.
At least this time somebody has decided to put one to good use. All this talk of blasphemy is bollocks.
What's more blasphemous...having an old pink lo-pro sitting in your hallway being ridden to the pub once or twice each summer, or having the balls to chop one to pieces and make something else out of it that will actually get used regularly?
Well done I say. Beats the hell out of seeing another boring old track bike built back up with vintage campag and brooks saddle and tape which will also only get ridden a few times because it's 'too nice' to ride in the rain!