Win Your Pick of Any Ibis Bike Up to $8,999 — CAMTB 2026 Fall Dreambike Giveaway

What you're looking at

The render on CAMTB's page is an Oso HD in Kodiak Gold, and it's the bike the whole prize is priced against. It's the gravity build of Ibis's redesigned Oso — one modular carbon frame that now covers three travel configurations, with the HD sitting at the deep end: 180mm up front, 165mm out back, Bosch Performance Line CX Gen 5 motor, 600Wh internal battery. Ibis sells it in exactly one complete spec, the $8,999 SRAM Eagle 90 build, running the mechanical version of SRAM's transmission, Maven Silver brakes, Blackbird Send alloy wheels and DD-casing Maxxis rubber. Modular dropouts let it run a mixed 29/27.5 setup on SM–XM frames and full 29 on LG–XL, so frame size doesn't dictate wheel size.

Except the rules don't actually hand you an Oso HD. The grand prize is your choice of "ANY bike of any size in the current Ibis line-up equal to or less than the cost of an Ibis Oso HD Eagle 90 Build ($8,999.00 USD)." The Oso HD is the ceiling, not the assignment — a USA-made Ripley SL, a Ripmo, an HD6 all fit under it. And the ceiling works in one direction only: the rules let the winner "optionally upgrade their bike and pay the amount above and beyond $8,999.00 USD prize value," but say nothing about a credit if you take something cheaper.

Why it matters

Full-power eMTBs have mostly converged on the same recipe, and the interesting thing about the new Oso is the modularity — Ibis building one frame that becomes a trail bike or an enduro sled depending on how it's specced, rather than three separate molds. The HD is the version enthusiasts actually argue about, because it's aimed squarely at shuttle-lap terrain where a 50-pound bike stops feeling like a compromise.

Be honest about what that weight means, though. Complete builds start around 51.7 lb, and 600Wh is only midpack for a 2026 full-power bike — big days realistically mean buying the 250Wh PowerMore extender, which costs extra and occupies the bottle mount. Eagle 90 is mechanical rather than AXS, and the wheels are alloy, not carbon; both are sensible durability calls at this price, but neither is the flex spec. If e-bikes aren't your thing, the choice clause is the real value here: the same $8,999 buys a very well-specced analog trail bike with a much shorter list of caveats.

The fine print worth knowing

Start with what a donation is and isn't. CAMTB describes itself in the rules as "a non-profit 501(c)(4) corporation under the laws of the State of California," and the rules state flatly: "By IRS declaration, donations are not eligible for charitable tax deductions." So the $5 buys entries and supports trail advocacy — it is not a write-off.

Entries scale linearly and the math is consistent across every page selling them: $5 = 1 entry, $10 = 2 entries, $250 = 50 entries, with no cap on how many one person can hold. The free route is a handwritten postcard to the CAMTB Administrator in South Lake Tahoe, spelled out word-for-word in the free-entry section of this listing and in the operator's rules — note that it runs on its own calendar, postmarked by September 15 and received by September 21, five days ahead of the donation deadline, because paper entries have to be in hand before the drum is filled.

On the prize itself: the rules reserve substitution — "If the listed prize isn't available, an alternate comparable prize will be selected by CAMTB" — and put the costs of collection on the winner, who is "solely responsible for all local, state, and federal taxes, title, transfer fees, license duties, insurance, and all expenses incurred in claiming the prize." On an $8,999 bike that's a real income-tax line, not a formality. Winners are notified "within two (2) business days of the drawing," and prizes "must be claimed by October 31, 2026" — about five weeks after the September 26 draw. One thing the rules leave open: they list the six bonus prize packs as separately numbered prizes but never say whether they go to the grand-prize winner or to separately drawn winners.

Finally, the structure. This is one drawing sold through a network of California trail organizations — CAMTB's own page, Marin County Bicycle Coalition, Redding Trail Alliance, The SoCal League and others each post it with their own donation link. Every link feeds the same campaign and the same September 26 drawing; the chapters publish a 75/25 split of donations made through their own link, so which page you enter through changes where the money lands, not your odds or the prize.