Moonduck

Look closer. It has a severely offset triple tree. Trail is measured by a line through the neck and a line dropped vertical through the hub. If you look at the side-on shots, rough guesstimate looks to me like live-able trail numbers. Now, a tree that offset introduces its' own problems with the front end moving side to side in order to turn, but the trail isn't likely to be an issue.

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So, this bike wins as the ultimate poseur bike, RUBS buy away!

Yeah, pretty much. While they claim it to be raide-able, and regardless of safety, it just looks so bloody uncomfortable that I don't think it would be ridden simply from that standpoint alone.

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the completed bike has no front brake control so the brakes must be linked from the rear pedal, which is stupid. This bike could never be roadworthy. Crazy fundamentalist rednecks trying to become engineers.

Why would it be stupid to link front and rear brakes? I mean, I wouldn't want to do it as like the added ability to control front and rear brake independently, but, realistically, in normal driving, both brakes are applied at the same time anyway. Frankly, I'm seeing linked brakes more and more these days. A lot of builders are going to it to clean up the bars. Exile pioneered the totally clean bar look that was copied on the YHWH with they're clutch being twist-controlled on the left grip much like the throttle, and the brakes being linked. Their linked systems are very streetable, and Exile builds enough of them that safety and liability aren't a concern.

As to "Crazy fundamentalist rednecks trying to be engineers", I think they probably either are engineers or have on-staff engineers. They're frames are well designed and well-made, and the normal ones have obviousl been designed for actual riding, unlike this obvious showpiece YHWH bike.