"so you'd get it just to be different, not to use it as its intended? unintentional irony detected "
Not exactly. I'd get it because it was cool, and it's cool partly because it's different.
If, on the other hand, it had tires 1/8" thick, it would be different, too, but wouldn't be cool, at least to me.
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