Chapeau. Ride the snot out of it.
thanks, I am! Every ride I told myself to take it easy, and every ride I ended up with some 2 wheel drifts into corners. And I am not skilled enough to ride like that 
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Why can I only “heart” this once?!?
Awesome stuff mate. Enjoy.
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Only way to get skilled is to do it. Skin grews back. 
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I was invited to the skids and giggles podcast and we had a chat on the ups and downs of building my bike:
https://skidsandgiggles.com/podcast/ep82-reto-aebischer-afterlife/
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life goals achieved: my bike on the front page of pinkbike 
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Big leagues when PB shares your build. Great stuff.
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Congrats! This has been a sick project to follow and an inspirational one too!
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Had some time on my hands and started with the CAD of an agressive short travel bike. should be light, should be “easy” to build leveraging CNC machining services and 3D printing, combined with geometries that are easy to manufacture with composites. But also needs to be sexy.
We will see where this goes…
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Wow will be fun to watch this thread and see where the next one goes!
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Woohoo Flexi times ahead
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machined moulds for the chain stays and seat stays this weekend. Not that I am anywhere ready with the design, but just felt like making some chips…
bolted together. soo happy with the fit of the two halves, there is absolutely no wiggle with the slightest interference fit.
too shiny to really tell what’s going on. but a really simple design. Would have liked to make a much more fancy design, internally pressurized and heated, but decided to just get it done and make something simple.
1.5kg material removed. Not bad for a homemade CNC router.
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pretty happy with where I am at with the design:
The shock mount needs some work, and the rear triangle needs routing for the brake hose. Other than that I am pretty much done. Simulation showed that I needed to beef up the rocker link. It’s substantially more solid now and visually looks still very light. gained a couple grams, but still very light and remained easy to machine.
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