THE RIPMO AF (ALUMINUM FRAME) BRINGS THE AWARD-WINNING PERFORMANCE OF THE CARBON RIPMO TO A WIDER, ROWDIER AUDIENCE. IT’S EVERYTHING WE LOVE FROM THE CARBON RIPMO, PLUS A FEW TWEAKS. OVER OUR LONG TENURE FROM MOUN­TAIN BIKING’S AWK­WARD ADO­LES­CENCE TO ITS CUR­RENT ANY­THING-SHRED­DY ERA, WE’VE EXPER­I­MENT­ED WITH STEEL, ALU­MINUM AND TITA­NI­UM — REMEM­BER THE BOW-TI, THE FIRST SUPER­BIKE? WE REMEM­BER THE MET­AL TIMES TOO, AND IT FEELS GOOD TO OFFER A PRE­MI­UM RIDE EXPE­RI­ENCE TO OUR BROAD­EN­ING FAM­I­LY OF RID­ERS, COUR­TESY OF DURABLE, AFFORD­ABLE ALU­MINUM ALLOY.