jagwil Posted March 30, 2009 Share Maybe a dumb question, but why is the rear triangle a "bolt-on" instead of being welded?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoe Posted March 30, 2009 Share Yeah, looks wierd... Maybe a true soft tail? Or something to do with the carbon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackie Posted March 30, 2009 Share Shiaat!! Awesome...I Want... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overlord Posted March 30, 2009 Share First and foremost, the The Ibis Tranny is a strong andlightweight monocoque carbon fiber hardtail. And a lightweight,laterally stiff, vertically compliant one at that. The Tranny goes farbeyond being just a hardtail, resulting in some unique features. Thefeatures are a result of the removable, adjustable-length, chainstay.This means you can transform it from a single speed to a geared bike to a travel bike in a matter of minutes. How Do We Do It? Take a close peek at the section behind the bottom bracket. There'ssome hidden equipment down there we call the "Slot Machine". It's notreally a machine, but it does have a slot that makes it adjustable.That allows us to lengthen the chainstays, so we can make this thinginto a bona fide single speed. It's lighter than an eccentric bottombracket, and cleaner than a chain tensioner. Look at our little animation of the Slot Machine in action. One bolt cinches the whole thing up. As an added bonus, that same box of magic along with the curiouslittle bolt up along the wishbone allows you to take the whole rear endoff of the bike. Two bolts and it's in two pieces. Why would you wantto do that? Easier to travel with my friends, and also possible to flywith this thing in a travel case and not pay the exorbitant fees theairlines like to charge us to carry our bikes. Not much of a Weight Penalty The Tranny frame weighs about 1350g, which in America translates toabout 3 lbs. With the WTF group, the complete bike weight is about 19lbs. Not bad for such a versatile machine. Shave Some Weight Dress this beast up as aSingle Speed and lose another pound plus. Get really freaky and put arigid front fork on there and you're down in the road bike weightrealm. We've been tossing around a lot of other ways to dress up yourTranny as well. One of our favorites is to use a rigid 700c disc brakefront fork, a set of Mavic SpeedCity wheels and see how low you can go.16 lbs or so? Or leave the suspension fork on there and try theSpeedCitys that way. Note, with SpeedCity wheels, you're limited toapproximately a 700x25c or 700x28c. In other words, no you won't beable to make it into 29er. One more thing, we're not currently working on a 29er version of the Tranny. Tranny Spotting (UPDATED November 08) We're still trying to get the first production Trannys finished.We've been riding prototypes and have found a few things that we wantto change. Unfortunately this means some CAD time and some work on thebig gnarly molds we use to make our bikes. We apologize for the delays.We don't like them any more than you do. But we want the bike to beright, so we are taking a little more time. We're going to give you abit more tire clearance, add a bit of stiffness, and shave some weight(the prototypes were creeping up on the gram count). Two of our designteam were at the factory in October hammering out the final details. Wegot the latest protos in October. The production line is scheduled toget fired up in November. From there, we need to allow some time forshipping and customs and other unforeseen curve balls thatmanufacturing may throw our way. So let's call it early December. Sorryagain for the delay and any plans of yours we might have blown, but theTranny will be a better bike as a result. NEW! Nifty Details Of the various details we've been sorting out with the Tranny, twoare pretty cool and perhaps even unprecedented. Both are a result ofthe tranny's transformation from a single speed to a geared bike. Checkout the detailed shots above. We've designed the tranny to haveremovable gear cable stops. We figure you'll always want brakes, butsometimes you might not want gears. The two cable stops for the rearderailleur are removable. And so are the derailleur cable stops foundon the top tube. Pretty nifty if we do say so. Clean even. Anotherextraneous item when you are single speeding is a derailleur hanger.And in the spirit of the single speed mantra "Less Gears, More Beers",you'll find the Tranny has a nice little bottle opener integrated intothe single speed version. Note to those of you under the legal drinkingage or many of you Utahans the mantra can also read "Less Gears, MoreRoot Beers". Colors The Tranny is available in three colors. The first is a matteclear, based on our extremely popular matte finish found on the MojoSL.It's not rubberized, just a flat matte clear. Looks really good. Forthose of you who want to make more of a statement, we have two reallygood options. First, a Granny Smith Apple metallic Green. Yum. And thenthere's Copper Metallic. You can see both above. Disclaimer The December ship date is our best guess, and remember the paint Onetime2009-03-30 11:55:04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackie Posted March 30, 2009 Share The name has to change, do a search for tranny and you will see what I mean. Some dumb ass named this bike after a Transvestite, with a sex change. I withdraw my compliment on the bike, want nothing to do with a name like that. Maybe if its free.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overlord Posted March 30, 2009 Share The name has to change' date=' do a search for tranny and you will see what I mean. Some dumb ass named this bike after a Transvestite, with a sex change. I withdraw my compliment on the bike, want nothing to do with a name like that. Maybe if its free....[/quote'] Because you can change from a singlespeed to geared bike in a matter of minutes mackiemoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagwil Posted March 30, 2009 Share Thanks Onetime. A very interesting idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwan Kemp Posted March 30, 2009 Share That's one killer bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwan Kemp Posted March 30, 2009 Share http://reviews.mtbr.com/interbike/files/2007/10/img_0612.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwan Kemp Posted March 30, 2009 Share http://content.mtbr.com/images/Tradeshow/14/318/prodimg5.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreZA Posted March 31, 2009 Share I'm glad I'm not buying one of those. Will never be able to make up my mind on the colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minjin Posted March 31, 2009 Share i dunno if i am too excited about that price tag stuck on the bike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MintSauce Posted March 31, 2009 Share If only it was available as a 29er Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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