M_V's multitude of bikes and adventures in the land of framebuilding

One of the tutors at the welding class looked at my mock up photo from more of an engineers viewpoint than I had been and pointed out a few things (shock still going to rip itself apart under braking, braking would stop the fork compressing, travel path less than ideal) and suggested a few others like flipping the swingarm around and running the shock under the downtube but I think to make it work I'd have to increase the a2c such that it wouldn't fit the frame and it wouldn't be as attractive.