Revel Bikes today launched the Ranger Ti, the Colorado brand’s first production full-suspension frame built around a titanium front triangle. The Ranger Ti borrows the carbon rear triangle and links from the Ranger V3 XC/downcountry bike that Revel released earlier this year, and the company says geometry and suspension kinematics are unchanged from the carbon version.
The first Ranger Ti batch is limited to 10 individually numbered frames, and Revel is taking reservations now with an expected ship date before the end of 2026.
Same bike, different material
It’s not unusual for bike brands to follow a carbon frame with a metal version. However, it’s usually a cheaper aluminum one: Specialized launched the carbon Stumpjumper 15 in July 2024 and added alloy models two months later, and Ibis has given both the Ripley and the Ripmo the same treatment with its AF (aluminum frame) versions. A more expensive titanium version of a carbon bike is a different story, and it’s even rarer to see a full-suspension titanium frame.
In fact, in a Singletracks podcast interview with Miller in 2025, the Revel founder said, “In my mind, a full suspension bike should be carbon and a hardtail bike should be titanium.” When I asked if that meant the company would never produce a full-suspension titanium bike, he hedged. “There’s room for experimentation, so I’d say stay tuned on that front.”
One challenge is that titanium is difficult to weld, and a full-suspension front triangle has to locate a shock mount and multiple pivots precisely. Revel says traditional machined and welded construction tends to produce a frame that is too heavy, not strong enough, or that compromises the kinematics because pivots can’t go where the designers want them.
Revel’s answer is 3D printing. The head tube, upper shock mount, bottom bracket, and pivot interfaces on the Ranger Ti front triangle are 3D-printed titanium junctions. Those junctions are sleeved and welded to titanium tubing.
“It’s not cheaper, lighter, or easier to make, but that’s not why we made it,” Revel founder and CEO Adam Miller said in the release. “It combines the best parts of materials and kinematics into a bike that might not make the most sense on paper but is bizarrely awesome, and to me that’s what a lot of this is all about.”
Miller says the goal was to pair the stiffness of the carbon rear triangle with what he calls the “insanely supple ride feel” of titanium up front.
Ranger Ti vs. Ranger V3 carbon
On paper, the only real differences between the two Rangers are the front triangle material, the weight, and the price. Revel says geometry and kinematics carry straight over from the carbon Ranger V3, which means 130mm of fork travel, 120mm of rear travel, 29-inch wheels, and the same higher anti-squat and higher progression Revel touted for the V3 launch in June.
The feature lists line up closely too, since the Ti frame uses the same carbon rear triangle and links.
| Ranger Ti | Ranger V3 carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| Front triangle | Titanium tubes, 3D-printed Ti junctions | Toray UD carbon |
| Rear triangle and links | Carbon (shared with V3) | Carbon |
| Travel (F/R) | 130mm / 120mm | 130mm / 120mm |
| Bottle/utility mounts | 4 on M–XL, 3 on S | 3 bottle + 1 utility mount on all sizes |
| Cable routing | Full internal | Full internal, co-molded guide tubes |
| Claimed frame weight | 8.02lb (3.64kg), size L | Not published |
| Frame price (US) | $5,969 | $3,799 |
Miller was right about the Revel Ti not being cheaper or lighter than the carbon version. At $5,969 for the frame, the Ranger Ti frameset cost $2,170 more than the carbon frame. Though we don’t know the weight of the carbon Ranger, it’s surely less than 8lb.
Titanium runs deep at Revel
Titanium isn’t new to the Revel team. Adam Miller launched Why Cycles, a titanium bike brand, in 2016, and Revel followed as its carbon full-suspension sister brand. The two operated under the same roof with the same ownership and staff until March 2023, when Revel folded Why Cycles into the Revel brand. Bikes like the El Jefe hardtail carried over under the Revel name.
This project physically merges the two brands.
Revel itself has had a bumpy few years. Miller sold the company to a private equity group in October 2021, stayed on through the transition, and left in early 2024. When Revel announced it was shutting down in April 2025, Miller bought back the company’s assets the following month, returning it to founder ownership. The brand has since moved its headquarters from Carbondale to Golden, Colorado.
Since then, Revel has leaned hard into titanium experiments. The brand showed Project RaTical, a 3D-printed titanium full-suspension concept with 130mm of rear travel and a claimed 31.5lb complete weight, as a one-off last year. Revel says the Ranger Ti is the culmination of that work.
Just last week, Revel released the El Jefe Grande, a titanium hardtail built around 32-inch wheels that started as a Concept Labs prototype. The El Jefe Grande was Revel’s first production bike with a 3D-printed titanium head tube, sleeved and welded to the tubes, the same construction approach the Ranger Ti now applies to the Revel Ti front-triangle junctions.
“As a fan of titanium bicycles for most of my life, I always felt that a high-performance titanium full suspension bike was an elusive dream,” said Chris Reichel, Revel’s global brand strategist. “With this technology and the talent on this team, we finally built it.”
Pricing and availability
The first batch of Ranger Ti frames is limited to 10 individually numbered pieces. Framesets are $5,969 at revelbikes.com and £4,999 at revelbikes.uk, and reservations are open now, with shipping expected before the end of the year. Revel says complete builds are also available but didn’t list pricing in the release.
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