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About Moots
Kent Eriksen founded Moots in 1981 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, building frames out of a cone-shaped former incinerator and sawmill that housed his Sore Saddle Cyclery shop. The brand started in steel and was one of the first companies in the United States to manufacture and promote mountain bikes; Eriksen went on to be elected to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.
Moots switched from steel to titanium in 1991 and has built every frame in titanium since. The brand handcrafts each tube set, miters the joints, and TIG-welds every frame in the Steamboat Springs factory, with serialized records kept on file for the life of the bike.
Chris Miller acquired Moots from Eriksen in 1995 and scaled the company while keeping production local. The current lineup covers road, gravel, and mountain across the Vamoots, Routt, and Scrambler and MXC platforms, with framesets sold complete or as bare frames for custom builds through Moots’ US dealer network.
Most popular Moots models
The Moots lineup is organized into three families, all built from titanium in Steamboat Springs. The Vamoots covers road riding from the CRD race platform through the Vamoots 33 endurance bike and the Vamoots RCS road-plus model with clearance for narrow gravel tires. The Routt family is the gravel range, from the RSL race-spec, the CRD lightweight, the Routt 45 versatile gravel platform, and the Routt YBB softtail with a damped rear triangle.
Off-pavement, the Scrambler is the adventure-gravel platform with mountain-bike clearance and drop bars, and the Womble, MXC, and Mountaineer cover XC hardtail and adventure mountain in titanium. Every Moots is a hand-welded, made-to-spec titanium frame priced from roughly $5,400 to nearly $19,000 as a complete build — the kind of replacement value a homeowner’s policy will cap well below, where stand-alone gravel bike insurance from Velosurance covers theft, crash, and transit damage that a property policy will not.
Moots’ race road bike. Double-butted RSL titanium tube set, hand-welded in Steamboat Springs, sold as a frameset or with SRAM Force AXS and SRAM Red AXS builds.
The any-condition titanium road bike, named after local Routt County Road 33. Frameset, SRAM Force AXS, and SRAM Red AXS builds.
A road-plus titanium frame with clearance for narrow gravel tires. Road geometry, dirt and gravel ability, frameset through SRAM Red AXS.
The first Moots gravel bike to use the RSL race-super-light tube set. 45 mm tire clearance and a race-tuned build for high-performance gravel.
The premium Routt with the CRD complete-race-design tube set. Lighter and stiffer than the standard Routt, built for gravel racing and bikepacking.
Moots’ most versatile gravel platform. Hand-welded titanium frame with 45 mm tire clearance, sold as a frameset or in multiple build kits.
The Routt with Moots’ classic YBB softtail rear triangle. Damped rear end for rough gravel and bikepacking, in a titanium frame built for long off-pavement days.
The adventure-gravel platform. Drop bars, mountain-bike-level tire clearance, and a titanium frame tuned for unsupported multi-day off-pavement rides.
A titanium hardtail mountain bike. Modern trail geometry, 29-inch wheels, dropper-post compatible, hand-welded in Colorado.
The XC race hardtail. Titanium frame tuned for cross-country racing and long-distance off-road riding on 29-inch wheels.
The adventure mountain platform. Titanium frame designed for bikepacking, off-pavement touring, and rough terrain that benefits from a passive-comfort frame material.
Moots' Warranty: What It Covers and Where It Stops
Moots warrants its frames against defective materials and workmanship for the original owner. Five terms decide what that is worth to you.
Lifetime of the original owner on the frame
Moots warrants the frame to be free of defective materials and workmanship for the lifetime of the original owner. The warranty is not transferable, and Moots notes it does not mean the frames are indestructible.
Send the registration card within 2 weeks
To the extent allowed by law, the warranty is not effective unless you are the original owner and you complete and send Moots the Bicycle Frame Registration Card within 2 weeks of the date of purchase.
Repair or replacement at Moots' cost
If Moots determines the frame has a covered defect, it will either repair it or replace it with the same or a comparable model at Moots' cost, in its sole discretion. You are responsible for shipping charges.
Claims need the receipt with the serial number
Deliver the frame to an authorized Moots dealer or ship it to Moots. In either case you must provide your original, dated purchase receipt that has the frame's serial number printed on it.
Defects only: accident damage is excluded
The warranty does not cover defects, failures, or malfunctions that result from an accident. Those are the losses a Velosurance policy is built for.
Summary of the Moots Cycles, Inc. Limited Warranty, reviewed September 17, 2026. Applies to new Moots bicycle frames purchased directly from Moots or from authorized Moots retailers in the United States, for the original owner. The manufacturer decides every warranty claim, and its full published terms govern.
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