Who Loves Ya?
We don’t know who loves you, but those incredibly intelligent and good looking folk over there at Mountain Bike Action seem to think we’re ok. We kind of feel like we’re going steady with them. Only they don’t even know it.
What are we talking about?
The January issue of MBA!
That’s us smack dab front and center on the cover, and the lead picture in the show coverage shows our bike with the words “BEST IN SHOW” next to it.
Don’t believe us?

Look here:

Here’s the Best in Show part:

Thank you MBA!!! We take back all that stuff we said about you!

Speaking of decals and stickers and things, my vote for “Fridge of the Week” is right here. Be sure and look at the full size image. It’s impressive.

I can’t reveal who this fridge belongs to, but they are in the bike industry. You will want to order lots of Ibis Vinyl Stickers so you can create your own masterpiece.

For inspiration, I recommend you look at the close-ups below. Click on the image to study them. Then start stickering. Don’t feel bad if your fridge doesn’t look good right away. This is a multiple year effort. A monumental accomplishment. Probably won’t be duplicated in our lifetime.

I recommend you read what the critics are saying:

“‘Anonymous Fridge Artist’ has constructed an unnerving and painful spectacle that is also, in the end, a depressing one. It is disheartening to see a fridge made with evident and abundant stickering conviction that is at the same time so utterly lacking in grace.”
– The New York Times

“This is a fridge so singular, so intense, so overwhelming that it simply has to be experienced.”
– Atlanta Journal/Constitution

“From dirty girls near the top to its final breath at the bottom near the compressor utilizing Mondo Cafe, ‘The Fridge interprets the life with a fresh reality — and a raw brutality — unlike anything ever seen before. It is an intense, relentlessly gripping interpretation of the sticker ritual.”
– Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

“It’s a stylish and visually polished re-creation of the artist’s inner torment — unrelieved suffering and martyrdom, in other words. Controversy over whether it will inflame anti-Stickerism guarantees huge audiences, and many people may be profoundly moved. But as a fridge it is quite bad.”
– Houston Chronicle

“The fridge is a brutal, blood-soaked plea for compassion and understanding in the face of monstrosity. There is a purity — an openhearted zeal — to the installation that is forthright and breathtaking. And it is, first and foremost, exemplary stickering.”
– Philadelphia Weekly

“Images take precedence over dialogue here. And those images are graphic, unsettling and undeniably powerful.”
– Dallas Morning News

The fine folk at Dirt Rag sent us a little preview of their excellent magazine’s coverage of the Vegas show. Shaa-wing!! a big ol picture of the Mojo Carbon right there in the lead of the article. We’re quite happy about this!
Thanks Dirt Rag!
Click here for a full size view

We’ve Got Em!! That’s right folks, the new Chuck Ibis decal old school spiffy up your vintage Ibis decal site has unofficially launched. Actually, you’re already on the Chuck Ibis decal site, just on the blog portion. And I have no idea how you got here.

ATTENTION CANADIANS
The things we’re selling on this site are DECALS, pronounced like this: DEE-cal.
Decal does not rhyme with heckle.
Would you guys up there in the great white north please get it straight, eh? Thanks.

Speaking of that, here’s a joke, that doesn’t work at all to type, but I’m going to do it anyway.
Do you know how to spell CANADA?
C
Eh?
N
Eh?
D
Eh?

Sure enough, didn’t work. Oh well.

Anyway, just get yourself over to the home page over there on the top at the left, and if you need them, order up some decals, headbadges (and stickers for tagging your tool box). And maybe some other stuff will show up on the site too!
Ciao,
Chuck I.