Another project...with a difference

If you ever come across a frame and other bits big and strong enough for giant fat people and want a paid build give me a shout.

I received the forks for it yesterday and they are currently undergoing a paint transformation. It'll start looking like an actual bike very soon.

Going for a matte lacquer instead of gloss as a contrast to the frame. Helmet will be the next custom paint job.

Impressive!

Indeed.  You don't want to come and paint a shonky Land Rover do you? 

I agree with that, the frame has a suit you or not thing going on but the forks are bloody nicely done.

They're the guy from Doom (the game, not the film). in various states of distress.

I remember the old IDDQD code for Doom from my youth. Doom was an absolute cracker of a game in its day, as was Wolfenstein 3D that preceded it.

This is looking awesome - great work! Aside from the recently purchased road bike (which I'll be taking out for it's 5th ride ever later today!) all my bikes (all MTB's) in the last 20 years were built from the frame up, though not with quite this level of artistry!

Most have started with either a second hand or heavily reduced frame, I tend to buy out of date but very high end bits and thus always have enough for a full bike build kicking about... Most recently I got an Ibis Mojo HDR frame - ridden about 6 times - which is on the lower travel setup designed for 27.5" wheels, though I'm running it on carbon 26's that were a steal (£1500 to £300 new) for being an unfashionable size at that time. I have barely ridden that one as it was finished just before my ex did her thing, but I'm doing one MTB ride a week now and will rotate through the bikes. Like cars, they like use, my rear hydraulic disc brakes (all Formula) seem to seize when left and always need a bit of fluid bled. 

Oh for the time we can ride at an MTB park again - after the Marathon nonsense of last year, the Triathlon nonsense planned for this year meant I was cycling again and do intend to go to Coed y Brenin and Cannock at some points in the year - if possible. Current routine is run/rest/cycle/rest/run etc - with all of them about an hour each - which is for injury prevention as I am still getting over a groin thing and have not been running fully (at one point I was doing 40k a week) since last summer. Cycling doesn't seem to cause it grief though. 

Enjoy and good luck!

PS - I had two pairs of the orginal DMR V12 pedals - they last forever - one pair is on my ex-wife's bike and one on my daughter's (my old "small" framed Santa Cruz Superlight with an impressive frame dent from CYB...). She's a lucky teen with that Superlight with carbon Pace forks and full (8 speed, much of it Ti) XTR gearing....

While I was diggin out old car sims I came across Doom 3 (BFG edition no less) but as I cannot get a steam account it is so much pointless plastic. Perhaps later or after lockdown is done.

You need a steam account for the copy protection and certification, or it will not install. Pain in the arris.

C'est la vie and not the end of the world. Richard Burns rally is available free and it does run on windoze 10. No doubt stuff will be sorted eventually. For anyone interested, Codemasters F1 2019 is available for 70% off on the steam store.

To complete an account there is the usual 'are you a human or a bot check' this entails getting an email with a link. I never get the email so as far as steam believes, I am a 'bot' harvester.