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American bicycle company

Ibis Bicycles is a mountain bike manufacturer located in northern California, United States. It produces the popular Mojo, Ripmo, and Ripley mountain bike frames among other models. Ibis products are distributed in 33 countries.

Ibis Bicycles was founded by Scot Nicol, one of the earliest mountain bikers in northern California. It began in Nicol's garage in 1981, when a friend asked him to build a frame. Nicol sold the company to an investment group in 2000 and it went bankrupt within 20 months. Hans Heim, a former co owner of Bontrager Cycles and Santa Cruz Bicycles, partnered with Scot Nicol, Tom Morgan, and Roxy Lo to relaunch the brand. Colin Hughes, the Head of Engineering, would join later as a partner.

Ibis frames are primarily manufactured in Asia. In 2018, they began producing a small quantity of US made frames under the label Carbon 831. Ibis frames are primarily made of carbon, but after an 18 year hiatus (2001 2018), the brand recently began manufacturing aluminum frames.

While many companies came up with sophisticated names for their steel bike's tubing (for example, Columbus has their famous "Genius" tubing), Nicol and Ibis called their tubing "Moron" meaning it had more on the ends for strength and less in the middle to give the bikes light weight (a standard practice in cycling called "butted tubing"). The Moron design was released in 1994. The BowTi design (released in 1998) The 2020 team roster includes Robin Wallner, Bex Baraona, and Cole Lucas. In 2018 Brian Lopes returned to manage Ibis' new U. S. enduro team.