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@Scilly.Suffolk
A lo-pro is defined by function, not form: "A lo-pro... ...replicate[s] the hand position of riding on the drops of a normal road/track bike".
As it stands your bike doesn't put your hands in that position, so it isn't a lo-pro *despite *the sloping top tube and 650c front wheel.
A bike can be both a lo-pro and not at the same time, depending on the rider.
That's the bike I raced last year: horizontal top tube and 700c front wheel, but it was a lo-pro for me, because (using a smaller frame than I would normally ride) the base bars were in the same position as the drops on my road bike: check the head tubes on the frames in the background.
However, for someone who would normally ride that size frame, it wouldn't be a lo-pro.