 I must have an Ibis Tranny! Before next year is out I will own one! I hope thats not the only colour option though! 
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 IBIS!! - cool in the 90's and now producing absolutely what we want to see today.. super light long travel cleverly suspended super cool without being too flash rides. But me being me wants a short travel version and it to be even lighter!! Absolute class.
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 And it fits in a bag too, yet another reason why I need one  stainless multitools would be a sweet purchase too
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 Tranny has to be one of the best bike names ever. I'm sure it's an attempted play on words with the bike being 'transportable' and that the Ibis guys have no idea that Tranny is short for transvestite, which makes it even better.
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 Or a transistor radio or a Transit van.
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 I like that Corsair, the link assembly looks like a marvel of Engineering design.
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I bet those Ibis guys know all about the name connotation.. their cable guide on the old machines was a small fist called the "handjob" nuff said!
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"I like that Corsair, the link assembly looks like a marvel of Engineering design. " Funny that. I thought it looked like a completely unnecessary pile of engineering bollocks for the sake of it. I don't see how having more moving parts in what is essentially a single pivot can be any advantage.
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 the Ibis guys have no idea that Tranny is short for transvestite I'd be very, very surprised if that was the case Corsair thing - I'm in two minds. It's very tidily done and a masterpiece of packaging, but I'm not sure that there's any point to it. They claim that it's miles stiffer than anything else. Time will tell, I guess.
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I see that having 2 short links and the extra pivots could increase lateral stiffness and reduce the potential for twisting when compared to a single pivot but in the real world, would you really notice? The bike only has 5" of travel anyway and most 5" travel single pivot bikes would tend to be pretty stiff. I realise that the Corsair is designed to take some proper hammer (whereas an Orange 5 for instance is less so) but how much stiffer can it be in reality? If a single pivot was designed and executed properly for maximum stiffness I don't think the Corsair design would be 'miles' stiffer. Also, if you want a single pivot bike, surely one of the advantages is that IT ONLY HAS ONE PIVOT TO MAINTAIN. Why have a bike that rides and behaves exactly like a single pivot and then add extra moving parts? Bag of bollocks IMO. I know that I have a tendency to slag off, ahem "innovations" (Kona Magic Link etc.) but I'm not a luddite - honest, I just have an internal alarm that goes off when I suspect that the marketing department have been meddling in R&D......
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I'm a cynic and a luddite so I know that there will be more flex, wear and play with 8 bearings rather than two and four links rather than zero.
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