In over twenty years of building bicycles we’ve seen lots of technological advances, along with a constantly changing aesthetic sensibility. Or lack thereof. We’ve had changes in materials, changes in paint, no paint, clearcoats, tubing and more. For that reason, we’ve had a lot of different decals over the years. I’m going to review the basic types of decals we have here to help you determine which you need to order.

Panel Style Downtube Decals
All the panel style decals are made of a durable Vinyl material that needs no clearcoat. The panel decals require only one decal for the downtube. Due to the fact there are a lot of different downtube sizes, there are a lot of different widths of decals. See our sizing guide for help.
The panels came into use around 2001, and can be mounted on any Ibis. You might need to cut out a small circle for the water bottle braze on, as evidenced in this picture.

Banner Style Downtube Decals
In use from about 1993-2000, this is the classic Ibis lettering from the oval logo developed in 1993 and still in use today. The lettering has a banner behind. One-size fits all with these decals, and you need to order two per frame to get both sides of the downtube covered. If you’re not experienced with applying decals, you might want to try ordering an extra or two (even one of the less expensive smaller decals) for practice.

Ibis Old Skool Script Decals
The first Ibises back in the day used this style of decal. We remade them in the 90’s for our Scorcher fixed gear bike. Here they are again. You can almost complete your Scorcher set (sans scorcher decal, sorry) by ordering the headtube, chainstay and seattube decals. These are two per sheet, made for a 1 1/8” diameter downtube and you don’t have to cut them apart to mount. If you’re putting them on a larger downtube, you can always apply the two decals separately.

Older Decal Sets
We have a limited supply of SS decals, and a few XTRMojo sets too. These are waterslide, kind of tricky. If you’re having your bike repainted, no problem as long as you have a good painter. These are tricky to use. These sets have pretty complete sets of decals, and you’ll get a couple of extras in case one gets messed up.

Ibis Stem Decals
The banner style was used on our steel stems, and the oval logo style was used on the Ti Stems. For the most part anyway. There were a few Ti Stems from the early 90’s that had a short-lived decal style on them. Use the oval.

Ibis Secret Never Used Downtube or Seattube decals
We made these and just mounted them on our own bikes, in the bathroom and other places. See the picture for reference on how it looks mounted on the seat tube. This is merely the newest decal from 2001 with no panel, just the letters.

Ibis Model Name Decals
We often used one of these per bike mounted at the back of the top tube on the drive side. If there were no cables getting in the way on the other side, we’d sometime put on two. The TiRoad frames had the “titanium” sticker on the top tube in lieu of the model name.

Ibis Material Decals
These mounted at the front top of the seattube in the traditional location. Think Reynolds 531. There are some basic guidelines in the descriptions as to which bikes the decals came from. I’m hoping most people will still have some remnants of their decal on their bike (provided they’ve escaped death at the hands of the repair stand wrapped around the seattube).

All the rest
Should be pretty self-explanatory. Fun model names that never made it to market, the famous lunar weight bar (only 23 grams—on the moon).