Ten frames. That’s the entire first production run of the Revel Ranger Ti, and two of the four sizes were gone before most riders had even heard the bike existed. Revel just became the first mainstream brand to put a 3D-printed titanium front triangle into production on a full-suspension frame — bolted to the same carbon rear triangle, links, geometry, and kinematics as the existing Ranger V3. This isn’t a trade-show concept. It’s a numbered, sellable frame, 1 through 10, and if you wanted a Small or a Large, you’re already looking at a 2027 delivery slot.

No bike with this specific construction has shipped from a production mountain bike brand before. That alone makes it worth a close look, separate from whether titanium front/carbon rear actually makes sense as an engineering decision. (Short answer: not really, by Revel’s own admission. More on that below.)

Quick Take

Construction	3D-printed titanium front triangle, carbon rear triangle and links
Frame weight	8.02 lb / 3.64 kg (size Large, claimed)
Complete bike weight	29.5 lb / 13.38 kg (size Large, claimed)
Travel	120mm rear / 130mm fork
Frameset price	$5,969 ($2,170 more than the carbon Ranger V3 frame)
Complete builds	$7,969 – $14,169
First batch	10 individually numbered frames, shipping December 2026
Availability	Small and Large sold out; new reservations ship Feb/March 2027
Best for	Riders who want a Ranger V3 and a one-of-ten frame more than they want to save weight or money
Skip if	You want titanium’s usual pitch — ride feel, no paint to chip, lifetime durability — at a carbon-adjacent price

Why Titanium Front, Carbon Rear

This frame exists because of two things Revel has been building toward for a few years. The first is the 2023 merger with Why Cycles, the titanium hardtail and gravel brand Adam Miller founded in 2016. When Why folded into Revel, the combined company ended up with a carbon engineering team and a titanium fabrication program under one roof — not a common pairing in this industry, where most brands pick one material and build their whole identity around it.

The second is Project RaTical, the 3D-printed titanium full-suspension prototype Revel showed under its Concept Labs banner last summer. RaTical was never meant to sell. It was Revel testing whether 3D printing could solve the problem that’s kept titanium out of full-suspension frames for decades: you can’t easily weld the complex junctions a modern suspension platform needs — head tube, bottom bracket shell, pivot bosses — into clean, consistent shapes the way you can with carbon layup or hydroformed aluminum. Printing the junctions and welding tubes between them sidesteps that limitation entirely.

The Ranger Ti is what happens when that concept-lab experiment gets a production budget and an actual carbon rear triangle to bolt onto, rather than a one-off shock mount. Same brand, same CBF suspension platform riders already know from the Rascal SL’s 2026 Pinkbike field test win, new front half.

What’s Actually 3D-Printed Here

Not the whole front triangle. The head tube, the bottom bracket shell, and the suspension pivot junctions are 3D-printed titanium; straight titanium tubing gets welded between those printed lugs to complete the triangle. It’s the same basic trick Pinion uses on the drivetrain side of the industry, just applied to a frame instead of a gearbox: machine or print the one part that actually needs tight tolerances and weird geometry — Pinion’s internal gear cluster housing, Revel’s head tube and pivot junctions — then build everything simpler around it. Printing is what lets Revel create smooth, carbon-frame-like junction geometry in a material that’s historically fought that kind of complexity.

Routing is fully internal, threaded through the printed lugs rather than taped to the outside of a tube — another detail that would have been a genuine pain to pull off with traditional titanium fabrication. The rear triangle, suspension links, geometry numbers, and kinematics are untouched from the carbon Ranger V3: 120mm of rear travel, a 130mm-travel fork up front, the same CBF anti-squat behavior through the stroke. Revel isn’t selling you a new suspension design. It’s selling you the existing, proven Ranger V3 platform with a different front half.

The Weight Doesn’t Flatter Titanium, and Revel Isn’t Pretending It Does

Here’s the part that separates this from typical launch copy: Revel doesn’t claim the Ranger Ti is lighter, cheaper, or easier to build than the carbon version. It isn’t any of those things, and the brand says so plainly. The frame weighs 8.02 lb (3.64 kg) in a size Large — carbon full-suspension frames in this travel class routinely come in lighter. A complete Ranger Ti runs 29.5 lb (13.38 kg), which is a reasonable number for a 120/130mm trail bike but not a weight that wins arguments against carbon.

That’s worth sitting with if you’ve shopped titanium before expecting the usual pitch: ride quality, no paint to chip on rock strikes, a frame that outlives you. Hardtails and gravel bikes get to cash that check at a real weight advantage over aluminum, sometimes close to carbon. A titanium front triangle welded to a carbon rear doesn’t get that same advantage — titanium tubing plus printed titanium junctions isn’t lighter than molded carbon layup doing the same job. If you’re buying this one for the scale, you’re buying it for the wrong reason.

Pricing and Build Options

The Ranger Ti frameset retails for $5,969 — $2,170 more than the equivalent carbon Ranger V3 frame. Complete builds span four kits, starting at $7,969 for a SRAM Eagle 90 build and running to $14,169 for SRAM XX Transmission with Flight Attendant electronic suspension. For comparison, a similarly specced carbon Ranger V3 complete build costs noticeably less across the same component tiers — the titanium premium shows up at every price point, not just the frameset.

That pricing sits well above where most trail bikes live. The Trek Fuel EX Gen 7 and other 120-140mm carbon trail bikes from bigger brands undercut the Ranger Ti’s top build by a wide margin and don’t ask you to gamble on a first-year titanium/carbon bonding process doing its job over years of trail abuse.

Availability: Why Two Sizes Are Already Gone

The first batch is capped at 10 individually numbered frames, a number small enough that Revel is treating each one like a limited-run product rather than a normal frame size run. Reservations require a $500 deposit, and as of this writing, Small and Large are sold out of that first batch. If you reserve now, you’re booking a February/March 2027 delivery slot — the frames shipping before the end of 2026 are already spoken for.

That’s a genuinely small run for a production mountain bike brand. Ten frames across four sizes means some sizes only had two or three slots to begin with, so “sold out” here means something closer to “gone in the first week” than “backordered after months on sale.”

Ranger Ti vs. Ranger V3: What Actually Changes

	Ranger Ti (titanium front)	Ranger V3 (all-carbon)
Frameset price	$5,969	$3,799
Frame weight (size L)	8.02 lb / 3.64 kg	Lighter — Revel doesn’t claim otherwise
Rock strike damage	Shrugs it off, no paint to chip	Can gouge or crack the clear coat
Junction manufacturing	3D-printed titanium lugs, welded tubing	Molded directly into the carbon layup
Ride feel	Unresolved — the carbon rear still does most of the flexing	Consistent carbon feel front to rear

Line them up and the trade is narrow: you’re paying $2,170 extra for a frame that survives rock gardens and years of UV better, and you’re getting a slightly heavier bike in return, not a lighter or cheaper one. Whether that trade is worth it comes down to how much you care about the first point and how little you care about the other two.

Who Should Actually Buy This

Riders who already wanted a Ranger V3 and want the rarest version of it. If the carbon Ranger V3’s geometry and CBF suspension already worked for you, the Ti version gives you that exact ride with a numbered titanium front half nobody else on your local trail is running.

Collectors and early adopters who value scarcity over spec-sheet efficiency. Ten frames is a number closer to a limited sneaker drop than a normal product launch. If owning one of ten matters to you, that’s a legitimate reason to buy — just go in knowing that’s the actual value proposition, not the weight or the price.

Titanium loyalists who want a full-suspension option that doesn’t exist elsewhere yet. If you’ve built your bike collection around Why Cycles or other titanium brands and have been waiting for a titanium full-suspension frame from a brand with real suspension engineering behind it, this is the first one that exists.

Who Should Skip This

Anyone buying primarily on weight. At 29.5 lb complete, the Ranger Ti isn’t competing with lightweight carbon trail bikes on the scale, and it was never designed to.

Value-conscious trail riders. A $2,170 premium over an already-expensive carbon frameset, with a 2027 wait for most sizes, is a hard sell against the carbon Ranger V3 itself or a comparable trail bike from a bigger brand that ships now, at a lower price, with a longer production track record.

Riders who need their size now. Small and Large are gone. If you’re not flexible on fit or timeline, this frame isn’t currently available to you regardless of budget.

The Bottom Line

The Revel Ranger Ti is a genuinely new thing — the first production full-suspension mountain bike frame to pair a 3D-printed titanium front triangle with a carbon rear end — and Revel deserves credit for not overselling what that construction actually buys a rider. It’s not lighter. It’s not cheaper. It’s a frame built because the 2023 Why Cycles merger and last year’s RaTical prototype made it possible, priced and limited like the engineering flex it is.

If you want the Ranger V3’s suspension feel in the rarest version Revel has ever offered, and you don’t mind paying $2,170 more for titanium’s ride quality and durability rather than any weight advantage, this is worth the reservation — assuming your size is still open. Everyone else gets the same bike, functionally, for less money and no 2027 wait, by buying the carbon version.

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Specs, pricing, and availability sourced from Revel’s official Ranger Ti product page, with launch details cross-checked against Bikepacking.com, Singletracks, and The Radavist. Pricing current as of October 2026 and subject to change at retail.