Yes, I'm going to build it. Name the frame.
 

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...10monorail.gif

It won't be flexy and yes it will be rootbeer. It also has the axle path of a horst link bike.

Omnes or Insignibus Maxime Armis.

Or Rooty.

The black dots are pivot points and the thin grey line is where the spring goes ? Whats the grey line on the downtube?

Root beer or poo?

Nooooh!

It's a rail system.

I say you name it Frosty. In honor of the old Frosty root beer!

Or The ED-209!

That thing looks like it would be hefty.

Monorail?

Mastiff

Conan....
Now you legally owe me 50% of all your profits.... Sorry that you posted that dumb question yet?

i have no clue about names.

good luck with the build though.

Nope, I'm not building it to make a profit.

I am.... (If you use Conan as the name...)

Mug? Barq's? uh... i don't know :S

Big Brown Bike (In the Bloomingdales font)
Barq Buster or Biter
The Log
Sasparilla
Stewart's Revenge
The Float

Ridey McRiderton
A$$Fire
HolyMoley
Root Beer
WTFRAIYN

How about fuerte fuerza? Or i guess if it was truly spanish the words would be in the opposite order. Theres also grande mierda(large ****).

Go with something western. Wyoming uses lots of brown so guy with some kind of horse name: Buckin' Bronc Brown, Clydesdale, etc... there are really a limitless number of untapped resources in the ol' cowboy realm.

I'm building it.

Milton

Out of 4130 Chromoly.

Call it the Brown Frown.

A couple questions, if you don't mind.

How will you do the steel monococque at the top/downtube junction?

How will you handle the issue of the rail apparatus? If you make the pivot small, it will be flexy and the bearings wont last, but if you make it too large, the downtube will grenade.

And what the heck is that brace between the linkage(s)?

Will this be your first frame build?

Is that the final design drawing?

Enquiring minds want to know.

please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think your Lower pivot point on the "slider" bearing,,needs to start from the top for it to work...!?!?

also i'm aware this is just a squematic with out much of a scale, if scale was the case you will have the chainrings as "wheelsz" since the rings will be touching the ground do to the super Bottom bracket height,,well maybe the really high rear axle, let me tell on my Nicolai M-pire(9inch rear travel i have a BB that is almost at 15" and i touch the ground with my pedals if i'm not careful

anyway goood for yoyu for trying,, maybe this photos of the new Yeti can help you,, i got to ride it and is really nice in a lot of diferent ways

http://patineto.smugmug.com/photos/35411761-M.jpg

http://patineto.smugmug.com/photos/35411762-M.jpg

http://patineto.smugmug.com/photos/37365092-M.jpg

http://patineto.smugmug.com/photos/37365100-M.jpg

http://patineto.smugmug.com/photos/37365079-M.jpg

http://patineto.smugmug.com/photos/37365081-M.jpg

Whats so bad about the rail system? Or what type of downfalls could he expect with it?

Its two load bearing surfaces that slide against each other while exposed to dirt and mud. I could be wrong, but I cant see a happy ending there. Any slack that develops between the rail bearing pads and the rail will have to be supported somewhere, most likely by the other bearing surfaces increasing the load on them and increasing their wear rate too. The rail itself is not so bad but the exposure to a hostile environment is. But hey It could work very well which for some people would mean more than shorter service life.

EDIT: I'm looking at the yeti as I write this, Kona24's diagram is too general to be specific about the details of his rail system, but the comment about exposed bearing surfaces stands.