It's a plain vanilla steel mild MTB with vertical drops. Sure you can have fun with it. It's not a great foundation for you to get all mad scientisty on like a Karate Monkey, etc. Really depends on how far and wide you want to "play" - SS/Fix, 29er, discs it really is suboptimal, but that may not be in your playground. I think it at least has brazeons for a rack and fenders and you could make an adequate MTB-based commuter w/ v-brakes.