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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Fort Collins, Colorado-based Moonmen Bikes made its first trip to NAHBS this year with a handful of customer and personal bikes, including co-founder Ryan McKee's M00. Each of Moonmen's bikes are named in numerical order for when they were built. This fat bike, the M09, took honorable mention in the mountain bike category behind Curtis Inglis' Retrotec fat bike, and yes, this is just the ninth bike built by Moonmen. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
A good number of the bikes that have left the Moonmen shop, just east of Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado, have been designed around a singlespeed drivetrain. Moonmen builder and co-founder, Todd Heath designed a new chain tensioner, dubbed the Mension, which is integrated into the chainstay. Though the owner of the M09 is running it geared, he wanted the option to turn it into a singlespeed. The Mension also allows the rear end to be dissasembled so that this fat bike could fit into a smaller box when traveling. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
For a more in-depth look at the Moonmen Mension — a $600 upgrade for any Moonmen frame — read more on the Moonmen website. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Jen Green from Revolution Cycle Jewelry creates the head badges for Moonmen, as well as several other NAHBS builders. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
The Mension system uses tube spliters on the seat stay for disassembling the rear end for travel. Moonmen makes its own seatposts, handlebars, and stems. The titanium Bolt Post starts at $295 and borrows some small parts from Thomson for securing the saddle rails — a favorite design of the VeloNews team. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Moonmen's swoopy, split top tube is a design cue that is carried over from the nearly 10 years that Heath spent as a builder with Black Sheep Bikes. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Fat bikes have some very unique lines. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
The Buckeye Stem can be made to any length and any drop. Of course, being made of 3/2 titanium with an aluminum faceplate means it's not cheap. It'll set you back nearly $400. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Aside from the frame, the Moonriser handlebars are the most iconic piece of Moonmen's bikes. Standard Moonriser bars retail for $395 and come with a width of 762mm, 102mm of rise, and 24 degrees of sweep. The 31.8 bar clamp can't be changed, but all of the other specs are customizeable. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Most of the Moonmen bikes use the Lupine fork, which is available for $1,027. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
The Moonmen M11 is a steel 29+ mountain bike. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
The Moonmen M12 is another steel bike, but in fat bike form. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Moonmen gets its custom bar ends from Purely Custom. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
Can't get enough of the Moonriser bars. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
An up-close look at Moonmen's Mension system that's been extended to create enough tension for the singlespeed setup. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Gallery: 2015 NAHBS, Moonmen Bikes
What's Moonmen working on now? Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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