Mystery All-Rad Metallurgical Masterpiece And Other Projects

Like a bat signal, but with arses.

@simba yes - dad's right, a 27.2 endgame here. Still plenty of dropper posts getting around in that size too.

Good drama and solution. The bike looks like it's going to be apocalypse-worthy.

That's sick. What size are these tires, gonna stick to an aggressive thread? What's the reason behind swooped-back anything cage?

Damn straight, will be chucking a chainsaw on the front to take care of the mouth breathes ;)

@pawlus - Thanks! The rear Ikon is a 2.6, which has been used a fair bit (including doing the Hunt 1000 on my friend's bike), and the front is a 2.5 DHF which I'll likely change as I don't really need something with that much grip or heft. I run those on my Ransom and they're fucking great when you're charging downhill but not a lot of use on an adventureureuruereerrr.

Sweep back on the Manything cages is to move the weight back a bit. A decision made based on conversations with people who do a lot of long- distance riding. Looks cool too?

Not many a better feeling than slopping grease all over a seat post and slithering that sonofabitch down the hatch is there?

Down to the final house-keeping tasks including bashing a bend into a stainless washer and slapping it on that poor embattled seat-tube to feed a dropper post cable through. The original plan was to chuck on my Reverb from my decimated Niner frame, but you bet your dick and balls that was a 30.9 That sick Syncros placeholder seatpost will do for now.

Though the reverb was hydro and wouldn't need too extreme of a bend, any cable actuated seatpost I'm likely to buy will need all the help it can get angle wise, so I filed out a bit more of a pathway for it to slot through, and it ended up looking like some sort of bird skull. Either that or I'd be in for some seriously disturbing results from a Rorschach test.

And a functional little tab for that rear bag support..

Something wicked this way comes...

I have a potential crank set which isn't Boost that may do the trick, so all I need to find are a stem, saddle, bags and the faffy little bits.

Frame is off to paint in the next few days..

Good going. Have you said what paintjob you're going for?

I don't think I have - may as well leave it as a surprise at this point. Hint: it's the colour of my soul.

You mean

Or perhaps

Yeah, probably the latter @russmeyer - I've always had the air of Jute rug about me, if you know what I mean..

breathing intensifies

That cassette is jumping the shark

After a visit to wikipedia, I might not be so sure of what jumping the shark means

Looks like a sharks mouth at least

This made me chuckle! I'll be jumping some sharks on this thing, don't you worry.

Fucking hell, that cassette is outrageous. Are you planning on riding up some walls?

I forget they're not yet all that commonplace, but I can assure you the cassette looks completely normal on a giant monster truck wheel/tyre combination ;)

And yeah I shall be scaling grav walls.

It's late in the project to be giving it a name - but The Murder Lizard is now in full swing...

Looks great! Im into the utilitarian look of the paint. Same vibe on my new frame.

...I was gonna suggest The Scorched Cellulite. But your name is good as well.

Love it! Components look cool too, that casette is ridiculously massive.

:-)

LOL! I was going to go for a "Hulsroy Earthtone" vibe but didn't want to hug the nut too hard ;)