It’s a carbon fiber hardtail.
It’s a geared bike.
It’s a single speed.
It’s a travel bike.
It’s all of the above.

It’s the Ibis Tranny.
People have been asking us "when are you going to make a hardtail?", "When are you going to make a single speed?", "When are you going to make a super light XC race bike?", "When are you going to make a travel bike?".
We've got answer for all of you.
The answer is NOW.

Briefly:
First and foremost, the The Ibis Tranny is a strong and lightweight monocoque carbon fiber hardtail. And a lightweight, laterally stiff, vertically compliant one at that. The Tranny goes far beyond being just a hardtail, resulting in some unique features. The features 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's some hidden equipment down there we call the "Slot Machine". It's not really a machine, but it does have a slot that makes it adjustable. That allows us to lengthen the chainstays, so we can make this thing into a bona fide single speed. It's lighter than an eccentric bottom bracket, 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 curious little bolt up along the wishbone allows you to take the whole rear end off of the bike. Two bolts and it's in two pieces. Why would you want to do that? Easier to travel with my friends, and also possible to fly with this thing in a travel case and not pay the exorbitant fees the airlines like to charge us to carry our bikes.

Not much of a Weight Penalty
The Tranny frame weighs about 1350g, which in America translates to about 3 lbs. With the WTF group, the complete bike weight is about 19 lbs. Not bad for such a versatile machine.

Shave Some Weight Dress this beast up as a Single Speed and lose another pound plus. Get really freaky and put a rigid front fork on there and you're down in the road bike weight realm.
We've been tossing around a lot of other ways to dress up your Tranny as well. One of our favorites is to use a rigid 700c disc brake front 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 the SpeedCitys that way. Note, with SpeedCity wheels, you're limited to approximately a 700x25c or 700x28c. In other words, no you won't be able to make it into 29er.
One more thing, we're not currently working on a 29er version of the Tranny.

Tranny Spotting (UPDATED August 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 want to change. Unfortunately this means some CAD time and some work on the big 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 be right, so we are taking a little more time. We're going to give you a bit more tire clearance, add a bit of stiffness, and shave some weight (the prototypes were creeping up on the gram count). Two of our design team were at the factory in June hammering out the final details. We got the latest protos in July. The production line is scheduled to get fired up in September. From there, we need to allow some time for shipping and customs and other unforeseen curve balls that manufacturing may throw our way. So let's call it early November. Sorry again for the delay and any plans of yours we might have blown, but the Tranny will be a better bike as a result.

Colors
So far, it looks like we'll be doing the Tranny in a nice creamy white, something in matte raw carbon and the third color will be a lemony fresh metallic, bordering on lemon lime. Is that vague enough?

Disclaimer
The July ship date is our best guess, and remember the paint colors are tentative at this point too.