Mongoose iboc road

[Frenesí de la furia]

Hi everyone my name is Omar and I have a old bike of the 90 the name of the company is mongoose and the model of the bike is iboc I have a lot of question about this bike because this is a ghost I don't found nothing about the model and the price but the conditions are very good of all components and the frame if you have information you can tell me about my bike tks.

 

[Woz]

Hello and welcome!

Mongoose were not that well known for road bikes - their heritage being early in BMX and later MTB.

But, this looks a great a bike. With some patience more help will come from our USA experts. In the archives are some Mongoose catalogues.

I would date this mid-90s at a guess. This is a solid well built bike.

All the best, W.

 

[Frenesí de la furia]

Hello and welcome!

Mongoose were not that well known for road bikes - their heritage being early in BMX and later MTB.

But, this looks a great a bike. With some patience more help will come from our USA experts. In the archives are some Mongoose catalogues.

I would date this mid-90s at a guess. This is a solid well built bike.

All the best, W.

Hi woz thank you for your comment I search in this moment the history of this bike, I have a lot of question about the story of my bike if you have information about the mongoose iboc road yst hp233 frame I can discover the rest of the history of my bike thanks

 

[Woz]

With many things retro - it will take time to know.

Someone more knowledgeable will be along. For the moment, you have a good bike and probably fairly rare in your hands.

 

[vtwinvince]

Cool bike, had no idea Mongoose built these.

 

[Jonny69]

Very cool find, I’ve never seen one of these either. Had no idea Mongoose had done a road bike.

As the others have said, even knowing nothing about them, it looks like a good quality frame and well fabricated.

 

[Woz]

Very cool find, I’ve never seen one of these either. Had no idea Mongoose had done a road bike.

As the others have said, even knowing nothing about them, it looks like a good quality frame and well fabricated.

Indeed. Little known fact, there is a sublime Sandvik built Ti Road frameset with Mongoose decals. Low numbers. For a keen eye to spot and bag up. Been on my list for years.

Basically, like a Dean or Kona. But goes under the radar for no other reason that people don't know it happened. Best quality you could find.

It's going to be hard to help this chap out, since the brand - a bit similar to Kona - is in such small numbers when they actually spread their product line into road during the upper cusp of MTB. Not associated with road and no past legacy, nor merits to get enough notice in the road crowd.

And even more so in Europe with it's traditional quirks. I dare say, a cheeky cross thread may be warrantied if this falls flat and post in the MTB section with all that bombshell but someone will know and notice.

Personally love these and period. I see for example Lapierre and Sunn did the same. Had a stab at the total market.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I have found some information, according to this link, built at the Kenisis factory in Taiwan
https://road-bikes.bikesw.com/products/56cm-mongoose-iboc-road-bike-kenesis-made.html
If yours has a K in the serial (likely on the bottom bracket shell), it could confirm this.


Not sure how accurate this is, doesn't give a specific year of the magazine, lists frame as carbon and aluminum. From Bicycle Magazine, some time between 91-99

https://jimlangley.net/bicycle_spec/rd94_99/iboc_rd.html

Review of a bonded 93 model.
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-...ike-review-1993-mongoose-iboc-world-road.html

 

[Canuk]

I nearly bought an Iboc from a bike recycling, must be 20 years ago now. As far as I remember it was 3 tubes carbon, with carbon forks and an aluminium triangle. I guess there were several generations of the Iboc branding. I think it was a purple-blue and I do remember the vivid yellow Mongoose decals. I think they were similar in build/construction to a Cadex.

This frame certainly looks like a Kinesis, which were very tidy and light aluminium frames, with big heavy beaded welds. Some iterations were in the super light Easton tubing, but this looks like regular 7000 or 7005. A nice bike, certainly a good find.

 

[Frenesí de la furia]

Thanks for your answers friends in few moments I send more photos of my bike