IBIS Full carbon with 5.5" rear travel

[kevpun]

Have a peek at the dirtworks site ... yummy!

http://www.dirtworks.com.au/newsite/content/view/135/62/

[Turley]

Oooohh... dw-link! I'd sure love my hollowpoint to be full carbon P

[josh123]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM! she a fine piece o' ass:p Only 25lbs:eek: Anyone no a general guesstimate of that to kilos? Sweet lookin bike....love it

[alchemist]

Only 25lbs:eek: Anyone know a conversion of that to kilograms?

11.3kg (1lb = 0.45 kg)

[Oddjob]

That doesn't strike me as amazingly light for a carbon fibre bike, which makes me suspect it would be VERY strong and beefy.

[S.]

Apparently they spent about $300,000US developing that frame.

[Cave Dweller]

Apparently they spent about $300,000US developing that frame.

Geeesss!!!! Its not like they had to design the suspension system, wonder what they spent the money on? Molds are expensive, but $300k?

[nickz]

Good to see that Ibis is back, they did some pretty impressive things with Ti back in the day, this looks awesome!

[S.]

Geeesss!!!! Its not like they had to design the suspension system, wonder what they spent the money on? Molds are expensive, but $300k?

I could see that being spent very easily. 2 x fulltime test riders (hypothetical, I have NFI if that's anything like what they did), a handful of alpha prototypes, all the CAD/CAE/FEA software associated (they do tend to include prices of shit like that because it makes the total figure seem higher and thus more impressive, even though every bike design is likely to need a half decent CAD program at the very minimum), some beta prototypes, fatigue testing dynos of some sort (whether they bought them or hired them or made them, who knows), all the tooling and stuff, telemetry kits and whatnot for real-world testing, proper research into carbon fibre materials and structural analysis (which is a bit of a bitch with CF cos it's not isotropic... I think that's the right word)... if I was gonna make a seriously high end bike like that I reckon I could easily spend $1m on the development and setup.

At the very least it sounds like they haven't cut corners. Pretty wicked looking bike IMO.

[cam-o]

Nup, can't put a bottle cage on by the looks of it, piece of crap.

(just jokes........)

[Oddjob]

That and the Scott Ransom are two of the nicest looking bikes that have come out recently IMO. Although the Scott insistence on proprietry shocks drives me crazy.

http://www.cycleshow.co.uk/g/logos/ScottRansom37.gif