pjhobs' stable - Who doesn't love a long head tube?!

That's just cruel. Nobody wants to see a box, open it!

As you wish.

In summary, lots of headtube. Would help if my finger didn't cover the sliding thru-axle disc dropouts

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After waiting what seemed like months for the fork, it finally arrived. Build finished.

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This is not a small bike. But it's a very nice bike.

Very nice, what's the fork? Worth the wait?

Fairlight Cempa, one of three possible forks with a long enough steerer and necessary clearance/mounts/geometry. Only ridden it up and down the road, but so far very happy, first proper ride this weekend!

Realised I haven't updated this in a while. For a while I wasn't in love with the handling, it was ok but not perfect. After setting it up for a gravel ride it all fell into place, needed bigger tyres!

Another Chinese purchase of some wide carbon rims and 32mm tyres, it's now fantastic. Need to take another photo with the PDW guards.

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Are they 700c? lol

Here it is in sensible and crazy gravel mode

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crazy gravel mode looks ace!

That is basically the bike I want, probably with similar geometry!
Presumably the sliding rear dropouts are for allowing space for larger tyres?

Yep, adjustment for tyres/guards and flexibility to run single speed.

I'm tempted to order another and build into a lighter weight winter road. Would go for a very similar geometry (perhaps a cm shorter TT), double/triple butted tubes and no sliding dropouts

Making a note of this link, may be useful for a future MTB purchase https://www.mtbr.com/threads/picking-a-bike-for-tall-riders.1101669/

In particular, this Tableau visualisation - https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/alexander.sollie/viz/BikeAnalysis_0/StackandReach