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@uolmo
Here is my first prototype, made by sammy from Mother fucker.
The one i was talking with you guys few pages sooner.
Sloppey feel really nice, really rigid when im "en danseuse" to get speed. The whole bike feel more rigid than my old kona. he's pretty light, around 10.5 kilos with this set up (i lost a good 500 gr witn my Trial set up instead of the old MKE guard).
Finally i can't put my kona fork on him, so i took manu's pompino one. No v-brake on the original project fork, and less offset. The on one put my BB 1.5 cm higher than on the plan.(31.5 cm)
The wheel base is short and the bike nice to handle, I found it pretty responsive. Way easier to play in front of the the wheel.
The issue is toe overlap, i get some, around 1,5 cm i think, with 170 cranks. Nothing really unplayable, but just enough to get small trouble with endos if im not used to. I think im gonna go throught that pretty quickly, but i would have a make it 1 or 2 cm top tube longer to avoid that.
Saddle position: no offset on the one i found first, i will put something with 2.5 cm (less or more) to be more on the back soon.
http://uppix.fr/?di=6KBH
http://uppix.fr/?di=6KBH