Track frame outside Baker St station

Howdy. Was on a daytrip to London's famous London and noticed a matt black frame locked to the railings with Krypto Mini. ALL other parts had been stripped. I know nothing about frames when they don't have identifiable stickers on them, but as I say was matt black with track ends. Thought it might be someone's, or a nice pillage. Didn't look bent but didnt examine much. Locked to railings on Baker St on corner with Marylebone Rd.

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packs bolt cutters and hacksaw and a big bag marked "swag"

we call them unipack, and they're shit.

we call them unipack, and they came to destroy us.

This sounds like such a good B movie. Unipack are like a biological version of the borg. All hive-mindy and gross.

Polo frame. Surely.

we call them unipack, and they're shit.

puts bolt cutters away

Gets frame cutters out.

Frame cutters?

grabs large canister of liquid nitrogen and a mallet

..you're not re-welding that.

Polo frame. Surely.

Given the number of holes in the welds on the one I had a quick look at while parking up the other week, I'm not sure I'd want to risk collisions/falling off very frequently on one.

Not even at the 8mph break-neck speeds of Polo?

Not even at the 8mph break-neck speeds of Polo?

not sure I've seen you at polo...

You probably wont have. I haven't been.

surprising, you seem to know a lot about it.

How so? Does my singular comment on this thread demonstrate my immense knowledge or are you being a bit of a silly billy?

It would be the latter.

Okey dokey then

I went over 100mph once.

You should get involved here then:

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread17248.html

they would never believe me.

Not even at the 8mph break-neck speeds of Polo?

It'd be the collisions I'd worry about most - too much risk of someone ending up with a nasty sharp tube end stuck in them if the weld lets go suddenly. It may be that the example I saw was a particularly ghastly one, but it really did look ready to fall apart on the spot.

One of the guys at SE beers rides a Unipack. OK, he's changed everything on the bike except the frame, but it looked like a decent sturdy frame to me. Bit like a tall BMX in styling. OK, I didn't examine the welds, just looked it up and down, but it didn't look like it was made of Swiss cheese on cursory examination. Maybe you just saw a particularly shit one.

Tea Bee, LFGSS already got one to test it out and the result is simply this; everything shit, even the frame, the only thing good about it is that your next bike (even an cheap SE Draft) will feel a million time better.