Ibis

The Ibis Hakka MX is Ibis' answer to the Swiss Army Knife. It’s the bike Ibis would choose if, heaven forbid, they could only have one bike.

The Hakka MX is a gravel bike, a cross bike and a road bike. Its good to have options. 

Oh So Versatile.

With its ultra versatile geometry and 1000g frame weight, the Hakka MX is just as happy crushing the local club ride as is it is jumping barriers or camping out. 

It's good to have options. With the Hakka MX, you can run road, cross and gravel friendly 700c wheels, or if you are into burlier backcountry exploration, go with 27.5/650b. With the Hakka MX, you don’t have to pick one tire option or the other. Our subtle sculpted chainstays give the frame clearance for up to 700 x 40c or 27.5 x 2.1” tires.

No matter what drivetrain you prefer, 1x, electronic, or 2x, the Hakka MX has you covered. The frame has internal cable routing provisions for every drivetrain on the market, plus a dropper post. We’ve even included a slick Di2 battery mount inside the downtube.

We’ve tried every bottom bracket under the sun and in the end, we haven’t found anything that’s more reliable than a threaded BB. Our Hakka features the T47 BB standard, which uses  30mm bearings enabling you to use the recent crop of lightweight cranksets. This is the best way to combine a threaded BB with 30mm spindle compatibility. It’s lightweight, quiet and durable, because no one likes a creaky bike.

• Ultra versatile geometry and 1000g frame weight, the Hakka MX is just as happy crushing the local club ride as is it is jumping barriers or camping out
• You can run road, cross and gravel friendly 700c wheels
• Or if you are into burlier backcountry exploration, go with 27.5/650 lb
• Sculpted chainstays give the frame clearance for up to 700 x 40c or 27.5 x 2.1” tires

The Ibis Hakka MX is Ibis' answer to the Swiss Army Knife. It’s the bike Ibis would choose if, heaven forbid, they could only have one bike.

The Hakka MX is a gravel bike, a cross bike and a road bike. Its good to have options. 

Oh So Versatile.

With its ultra versatile geometry and 1000g frame weight, the Hakka MX is just as happy crushing the local club ride as is it is jumping barriers or camping out. 

It's good to have options. With the Hakka MX, you can run road, cross and gravel friendly 700c wheels, or if you are into burlier backcountry exploration, go with 27.5/650b. With the Hakka MX, you don’t have to pick one tire option or the other. Our subtle sculpted chainstays give the frame clearance for up to 700 x 40c or 27.5 x 2.1” tires.

No matter what drivetrain you prefer, 1x, electronic, or 2x, the Hakka MX has you covered. The frame has internal cable routing provisions for every drivetrain on the market, plus a dropper post. We’ve even included a slick Di2 battery mount inside the downtube.

We’ve tried every bottom bracket under the sun and in the end, we haven’t found anything that’s more reliable than a threaded BB. Our Hakka features the T47 BB standard, which uses  30mm bearings enabling you to use the recent crop of lightweight cranksets. This is the best way to combine a threaded BB with 30mm spindle compatibility. It’s lightweight, quiet and durable, because no one likes a creaky bike.

• Ultra versatile geometry and 1000g frame weight, the Hakka MX is just as happy crushing the local club ride as is it is jumping barriers or camping out
• You can run road, cross and gravel friendly 700c wheels
• Or if you are into burlier backcountry exploration, go with 27.5/650 lb
• Sculpted chainstays give the frame clearance for up to 700 x 40c or 27.5 x 2.1” tires

Big wheel, big travel speed demon.

The love child of a Ripley and the Mojo HD4, the all-new Ripmo is a big wheeled slasher that’s always down for another lap, whether that means a big climb or a tailgate pad. Think of it as a mashup of the Ripley's balance and speed, coupled with the Mojo HD4's capabilities when things get hairy.

With a sub six pound frame and 145mm of effi­cient dw-link rear wheel trav­el (160mm front), this is the most ver­sa­tile bike they’ve ever built.

It also marks a dra­mat­ic shift in our approach to geom­e­try. The reach is near­ly an inch longer than the EWS Team win­ning HD4, with clear­ance for a 175mm drop­per, and a ped­al-friend­ly 76° seat tube angle. The end result is a bike that’s ready to ral­ly, while still main­tain­ing live­ly handling.

Tick­ing off the box­es, oth­er fea­tures include 2.6” tire clear­ance, short chain­stays, a thread­ed BB, trick inter­nal cable rout­ing and the abil­i­ty to run both a pig­gy­back reser­voir shock and large water bottle.

Is there any phrase in moun­tain bik­ing that’s more overused than ​“longer and slack­er?” Every man­u­fac­tur­er (Ibis includ­ed) is guilty of it. It makes bikes descend bet­ter but the ques­tion is, how far can it be pushed? They felt we were at the lim­its of that trend until they began exper­i­ment­ing with seat tube angles and fork offset.

By mak­ing the seat tube angle a steep 76°, they’ve put more weight over the front tire. This keeps the front end from wan­der­ing or wash­ing out. Mov­ing the seat tube for­ward also required push­ing the front end for­ward to keep the top tube num­bers sta­t­ic, result­ing in the longer reach.

In addi­tion to the steep seat tube, the Rip­mo also uses a fork off­set that is short­er than tra­di­tion­al­ly used. That makes a 65.9° head angle feel like 64.5° with­out increas­ing the wheel­base. You get the sta­bil­i­ty of a slack head angle with­out giv­ing up your abil­i­ty to go around tighter corners.

The Rip­mo geom­e­try enables a new lev­el of con­fi­dence and speed, bring­ing the sta­bil­i­ty of the EWS Team Cham­pi­onship win­ning HD4 to 29” wheels.

If you ask an engi­neer, they’ll tell you that bush­ings are low­er main­te­nance, stiffer, lighter, and more afford­able than bear­ings. The key is to only use them where it makes sense.

Bush­ings work best in appli­ca­tions with high loads and min­i­mal rota­tion, two things ball bear­ings don’t like. That’s why sus­pen­sion man­u­fac­tur­ers use them for shock mount­ing hard­ware and why they’ve used them for the past five years on our Rip­ley, HD3, and HD4 clevis.

High loads and min­i­mal rota­tion describe the Rip­mo low­er link piv­ots so they’re intro­duc­ing a new link fea­tur­ing IGUS bush­ings. The new link is 80g lighter than its ball bear­ing equipped equiv­a­lent, while also being tor­sion­al­ly stiffer. The bush­ings are shield­ed from spray, pro­tect­ed by air­tight seals and will last a long time.

Ibis believe so strong­ly in the con­cept, they’re offer­ing free life­time replace­ment on bush­ings. Have a prob­lem? Call them. They’ll send you a new set.

What’s bet­ter than a drop­per post? A longer one. That’s why their frame is designed around a drop­per that’s as long as pos­si­ble. Rid­ers on large and XL frames can use a 175mm post, and rid­ers with longer inseams can get away with a 185mm or 200mm post. Folks on medi­ums can use 150 – 175mm and the small frames will accept 125 – 150mm.

That low top tube means extra clear­ance, which gives you the flex­i­bil­i­ty to pick frame size based on reach, not stan­dover height.

While all their bikes have inter­nal­ly rout­ed cables, the Rip­mo is the first to fea­ture car­bon fiber tubes mold­ed inside the frame. Just put the hous­ing through and it pops out the oth­er end, no need for swear words or a pickset.

With a plat­form as ver­sa­tile as the Rip­mo, you should be able to run what­ev­er tires you want. They pio­neered the wide rim rev­o­lu­tion and they’re par­tial to the new crop of 2.6” tires. When paired with our 35mm inter­nal width rims, these high vol­ume mon­sters can be run at eeri­ly low pres­sures, deliv­er­ing mo’ trac­tion with­out get­ting squirrly.