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LARGEST Lotus I've ever seen

Old 07-26-09, 08:14 PM
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LARGEST Lotus I've ever seen

Rhodes Island Craigslist sale-dcxgp-1288536033@craigslist.org
If I hadn't bought a 69cm Shogun last winter.... It could join my 63cm Lotus

Thought I'd pass it along for all the other oversized C&Ver's out there
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Try it now...1288536033@craigslist.org
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That is a real monster. The reflector on the front looks so awkward on that bike.
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I see a lot of people ride road bikes for the first time because I help friends find them. They often look tipsy because they're so much more wobbly than most non-performance oriented bikes. I can just imagine what it would look like seeing some giant of a dude trying to use those downtube shifters for the first time.
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And I thought my bike was big
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i found a 69cm univega on CL locally.

I would probably opt for stem shifters if i were that high up
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...a short person could crouch under the top tube and pedal.
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Barcon shifters . . .
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Originally Posted by PDXaero
I would probably opt for stem shifters if i were that high up

those shifters aren't hard to reach when you're tall enough to ride these bikes.
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You could hang a kid's swing-set from the cross-tube. Good Lordy!
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I thought that bike looked familiar...



I'm not sure what the point of these bikes is really:

https://www.thebikebiz.com/product_p/bk-trk-pic01.htm
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this bike is small compared to those
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It seems like you would need bars that drop more on a bike like that.
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