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Old 07-11-24 | 04:44 PM
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Bikes: Several, all affordably priced, none exalted cult artifacts or hype jobs

Originally Posted by ChiapasFixed
...The 16” (349) cromoly steel Lotus from Origami. First impressions: it’s a SMALL bike! ...it feels a little cramped. Great for small riders

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Yet Pinigis will have us believe that it can fit riders up to 6'3" due to the secret modifications, so the unsupported claim goes, that he made to an FnHon Gust. Bull. The Lotus is, my informed wager, a rebadged Litepro City with slightly different components. As I -- one with actual experience building and touring on these 16" bikes, one without a monetary motive or financial incentive in providing advice, one who sees through Paul's slippery salesman spiel since Yan first warned about him, one who is not engaged in an obsequious, fawning bromance with him like a few here -- have long advised, these Gust and Gust-imitation bikes are not appropriate for people above 1.75m tall. That's the straight dope, not this Or!gam! Bull. Now we know why he's refused to share dimensions and geometry. He knows he was bound to be caught in an outright lie. Well, woomp, here it is. Yeah, real "nice guy".

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