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Here’s the ol BTS Would have been Morales Bikes 2nd gen BTS frame but because of quality issues they were all sold off to Dans Comp then sold under the Poverty name blah. So yeah quality is more than questionable but it’s lasted a pretty long time without breaking in half at least. Heavy frame too, around 8lbs. 

Lets see...

   The dropouts are soft (cut away material and hard surfaced mine, did the same for my friends Morales BTS, no probs after that) 

   Both the Poverty and Morales versions had very thin walled headtubes but the Poverty was the only one to ever give any trouble (ovaled out, repaired, press fit lower bearing cup with a brass spacer in the headtube, never gave me trouble ever again) 

   The entire rear triangle twisted far to easily... 

    The only plus with this frame was that it didn’t have the rear peg bosses as the Morales did, unless you only rode flat, running a peg on either of the bosses meant a twisted lower chainstay sooner or later ( happened to my friend without even beating on the bike hard, Morales warranted it though) 

     So if you ever have the chance… don’t buy one!!  Get the “03 BTS! I kept riding this frame for 2 reasons, most people didn't know what it was and many people hated it. 

      Darker pic shows the bike shortly after I got it: Mongoose cranks (DON’T EVER run these cranks!! I broke the spindle in half for @#$# sake!!) 

      Lighter Pic shows how the bike sat before taken apart to help build the 02 Miron loaner bike

Rims: Odyssey Hazard triple wall 

Tires: Snafu Knob Job rear, Hoffman Skidmark front 

Bars: GT Freestyle 

Stem: Snafu (lower bolt holes drilled oversize and retapped) 

Seat: Poverty Sofa (yea the seatpost has been bent forever, no I don't care) 

Cranks: Poverty POW cranks (cheap low quality crap, but they've lasted longer than expected)

Fork: Redline Monster (fork legs tweak easily on these) 

Sprocket:  44t Haro (just a low end crap steel sprocket)