Here we are a decade after Y2K, can you believe it? I guess that makes this Y2.01K. It also means the Mojo is embarking on its 5th year of making us very happy, still, every time we go for a ride on one.

We want to outline the changes and additions that you’ll see from Ibis for 2010.

First, a clarification. We don’t have model years for our bikes. Unlike a lot of the big manufacturers, or anyone who adheres to a "model year" in their product development, we don't change our bikes each year. The Mojo Carbon, as mentioned, was introduced in 2005 and it's not a dated bike by any means, in fact we don't think anyone has yet matched us for weight, beauty, quality of ride, and especially price. We kind of nailed it on all of those aspects, and that's because we gave ourselves a rather luxurious 3 years to develop the bike. When you're constrained by a 12 month development window, you simply cannot perfect every tiny aspect of the frame design like we were able to with the Mojo. The development of the Mojo HD took equally long, and we think it was worth the wait and extra effort. More on the HD below.

The biggest news for Y2.01K is that we announced the Mojo HD, a more robust, longer travel (160mm to be exact) dw-link equipped Mojo. This should keep the gravity folk very happy, and for that matter the non-gravity folk who ride up the hill before they get their thrill.

We’ve been working on the HD for three years, and managed to take a page out of Apple’s playbook, keeping it secret this whole time. It was like planning a surprise party for three years, and finally in July we were ready to let the Mojo out of the bag.

We’ve been testing the Mojo HD for some time now, in the forests around our shop in Santa Cruz, and Brian Lopes has also been getting quality time on it (including racing it in the invitational Enduro des Nations in France in July and also the downhill world championships in Australia earlier this month).

We’re not quite ready to announce when the HD will be shipping, but development is coming along very well.

The first big batch of the Hakkalügi cyclocross bike was done in plenty of time for Cross season, and we’ve got a good stock of them.

We’re offering the “Lugi” as a frame only a frame and fork (with an Alpha Q CX20) or with either a SRAM Force or a Shimano Ultegra group. The complete bike in either Force or Ultegra weighs only 17 pounds and at $3299 it’s about the same price per pound ($195) as your average cheese at Whole Foods.

Force and Ultegra groups are in stock, and all sizes of Hakkalügi frames (47-61) are in stock, available for immediate shipping.

We’re offering SRAM’s new Dos Equis (XX) group now for both Mojos and the Tranny. There’s a lot of buzz about this group, with its two chainrings, even higher than XTR price and even lower than XTR weight. We’re really happy to see SRAM lob this one across the bow of Shimano, this is good news for all of us who ride bikes. Let the component oneupsmanship continue! We have test ridden XX and really like it.

You can see the full spec of the group, MojoSL, Mojo, Tranny.

The XX group will be shipping on our bikes starting November 1 (this year).

For 2010, all the bikes will come standard with through axle forks. The through axle forks offer a lot more steering precision than 9mm forks. In the case of the WTF and XT groups, they’ll come with the Fox 15QR, and the X9 and SLX come with the RockShox Revelation fork with the 20mm through axle. The upgrade to the Talas 36 RC2 also includes a 20mm through axle.

For those of you whose proclivities gravitate toward Sir Isaac Newton’s famous studies (i.e. gravity), we have a new group for you. We’ve added a bit of beef to the X9. Starting with the wheels, we’ve laced up some Stan’s Flow rims to our Ibis hubs which should allow you to spend more time on the trail and less near the truing stand. Add some Ibis DH handlebars and El Moco 2.35’s with downhill casings, and you’re ready for Whistler. And even if you don’t have lifts to assist your needs, the Mojo SL with X9 still only weighs 26 pounds and change.

Our X9 bike for Interbike this year was a Mojo SL, and we added a Talas 36 RC2, a DHX air and a Joplin post with remote, and even with adding all those components, this bike weighed only 27.9 pounds.

With the advent of all the through axle standards, we’ve decided that it was time for some Ibis wheels with compatibility to all three axle standards. There are three different wheel builds we offer, all three can use either 9mm, 15QR or 20mm axles.

The Ibis wheels with Ibis hubs found on the SLX kit manages to shave 150g from last year’s wheelset, adds the axle compatibility and weighs 1850g for a pair of wheels.

On the new X9 group (see above) we lace the highly regarded Stan’s Flow rims to Ibis hubs, for a super durable wheelset.

Finally, in our XT kit, we use Stan’s Arch rims. We use an XT rear hub and in front use the Ibis hub so we can have all the compatibility across axle platforms.

On all the Tranny groups, you’ll find a Fox F100 RLC 15QR fork. We think you’ll like it.

We’ve also added our single speed group to the mix, “The Onceler”. It’s made with the freshest of ingredients and only weighs 19 pounds. The geared WTF XX Tranny comes in at about 20.

We’re re-introducing the Force group on the Silk SL for 2010. So this year you can choose from the Force, Ultegra or Dura Ace. The good ol Silk SL, like the Mojo keeps chugging along year after year. No need to change a great thing.

The Mojo Carbon, Tranny and Silk SL colors remain the same for this year. You can see them here.

In May, we introduced two new glossy colors on the Mojo SL, white and Trans Blue. You can see them here. We are also doing a matte clear.

That about wraps up our 2010 update.