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  • Long-time lurker, first time poster here.

    After perusing this fine trainwreck of a thread and agonising over a dozen open evans/crc/wiggle tabs for the past couple days I've made the wholly sensible and logical decision to order one of the cheap Foffa Ones off Wiggle.

    'WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THIS!?' you didn't ask?

    • I need a bike not a project so it had to be something pre-built.
    • I'm in the Netherlands. The local used track bike market is basically nonexistent, and the scarcity of decent used OTPs drives their prices through the roof.
    • It actually comes in grown man size. Did you guys know the largest Charge Plug they make is a 56?
    • It's in stock (because no one wants it)
    • It's cheap
    • Cromo frame rather than hi-ten like a lot of its low-end brethren.
    • Looks alright for an OTP in this price class (I mean, between this, a 90s-in-a-bad-way Jamis and some monstrosity with a lime green chain and matching 80mm rims..)
    • I'm fully prepared to ditch the wheelset the minute those Quando hubs give me grief. Then probably get a better frame so I'm not wasting good wheels on a Foffa. Remember this thing is CHEAP, I could give it a brand new set of Ellipses and the total cost still be less than like, a Scott OTG.

    So yeah it should be here in a week or so and I'll be sure to document it falling apart five minutes into its maiden voyage for your schadenfreude.

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