Friend of mine is a good welder and I mentioned how bikes seem to be a super hot market and with more and more slack/long HTs (DoctaHawk, Torrent, Fuse, Honzo) that maybe he could fabricate something.
At first he thought I was talking nonsense, and my buddy showed him his root down and he was like... this isn't hard at all to build/replicate
He said he can work with 4035 steel (crumbly) and 6061 aluminium quite easily.
What are you thoughts? Being that we aren't the north shore, is there a Market for custom gnarly "made in Canada" hardtails?