2023 Ibis Ripmo AF Deore, Marzocchi Bomber Air

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About this bike

The Ripmo AF (Aluminum Frame) brings the award-winning performance of the carbon Ripmo to a wider, rowdier audience. It’s everything we love from the carbon Ripmo, plus a few tweaks. IT'S METAL Over our long tenure from moun-tain biking's awk-ward ado-les-cence to its cur-rent any-thing-shred-dy era, we've exper-i-ment-ed with steel, alu-minum and tita-ni-um—remem-ber the Bow-Ti, the first super-bike? We remem-ber the met-al times too, and it feels good to offer a pre-mi-um ride expe-ri-ence to our broad-en-ing fam-i-ly of rid-ers, cour-tesy of durable, afford-able alu-minum alloy. MODERN GEOMETRY With a steep, 76-degree seat tube angle and a rangy but not stratos-pher-ic reach, the Rip-mo AF places rid-ers cen-tral-ly and upright over the bot-tom brack-et. It makes for an effi-cient posi-tion that can go the long haul with-out plac-ing too much weight on its slack, 64.9-degree head-tube angle. A 44mm reduced-off-set fork is more sure-foot-ed on steep descents and stead-ies high speeds. Bet-ter up, bet-ter down. DW LINK Since 2005, we've part-nered with sus-pen-sion guru Dave Wea-gle on the dw-link sus-pen-sion plat-form. It pro-vides an unpar-al-leled com-bi-na-tion of climb-ing effi-cien-cy and down-hill per-for-mance, which has been proven repeat-ed-ly at the high-est lev-els of racing. AIR & COIL COMPATIBLE The Rip-mo AF is com-pat-i-ble with both coil and air shocks due to a more pro-gres-sive lever-age rate. It allows for coil's lin-ear-i-ty to thrive and we spec air shocks with tunes that pro-vide pop with-out feel-ing too harsh. On the trail, it gives the sus-pen-sion a sup-ple feel through-out the entire-ty of the stroke, enhanc-ing trac-tion no mat-ter how deep you dig. 2.6" TIRE CLEARANCE Ibis helped pio-neer the wide rim rev-o-lu-tion, which inspired the new crop of wider 2.4"-2.6" tires. When paired togeth-er, this com-bo can be run at ultra-low pres-sures which results in elbow-drag-ging cor-ner-ing trac-tion with-out sac-ri-fic-ing straight line speed. PICK YOUR SIZE We use words like small, medi-um, and large to describe our siz-ing because it's easy to under-stand, but our ultra-low stan-dovers give you the abil-i-ty to size your frame based on reach and preference. LONG DROPPER POST What's bet-ter than a drop-per post? A longer one. Our frames are designed to accom-mo-date the longest drop-per posts pos-si-ble. Rid-ers over 5'8 (or 173cm) can eas-i-ly run a 185mm drop-per post, while folks between 5' and 5'8 (152cm-172cm) can use a post 125mm or longer depend-ing on inseam length. REMOVABLE ISCG05 MOUNT Our option-al ISCG 05 mount is there if you want it, remov-able if you don't. SEVEN YEAR WARRANTY We stand behind our prod-ucts. If it's our fault, we'll fix it. Our alu-minum frames are backed by the same 7 year war-ran-ty and excel-lent cus-tomer ser-vice as our car-bon products. - Image is representational and may differ from build spec

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