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leprechaun

Turbo Monkey
Apr 17, 2004
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MMMM, gloss black, so classic.

Tapered head tube so you can get your hands down by your knees like an olympic skier.












Krispy
 

Slater

Monkey
Oct 10, 2007
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No, they both run zero stack, its just that the coke bottle headtubes are "hot" right now.
 

leprechaun

Turbo Monkey
Apr 17, 2004
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SLC,Ut
Actually, the upper cup is regular 1 1/8 external style, and the bottom is regular 1.5, so you can put a flush lower cup on it to get the lower crown , um, lower.

Straight 1.5 would have allowed you to lower the bars even more, Yeti has this exact same head tube on other frames, so my guess is that they're just re using what they had, and yeah, tapered head tubes are 'cool" right now. They could have done tapered zero stack upper and lower, like Giant did but they didn't.

The color is 2010 gloss black. We just got them in stock. Turquoise and white are due in next week, i'll throw up some more pics when they show up.

Krispy
 

Leethal

Turbo Monkey
Oct 27, 2001
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Avondale (Phoenix)
I want one so BAD!!!

The rail keeps the leverage ratio constant right? What did the older single pivots like the Morewood and Orange do through the shock stroke?
 
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leprechaun

Turbo Monkey
Apr 17, 2004
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SLC,Ut
The morewood and orange were considered straight rate, but they fall off through the travel. You can see from the side of those bikes that the shock sits at about 90 degrees relative to the pivot. As they compress they go past 90 and fall off. The rail keeps it perfectly straight all the way through, the link barely changes angle throughoout the stroke, and the shock doesn't change angle.
 

dump

Turbo Monkey
Oct 12, 2001
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4,479
I like it. Personally, I'd tone down the huge YETI across the top tube, but understand if it's a team ride.
 

toodles

ridiculously corgi proportioned
Aug 24, 2004
5,516
4,768
Australia
That thing is hot.

Just an observation on the HT thing - the TR450 has an integrated 1.125 top bearing and a 1.5 lower cup. This actually lets you get the bars lower for some fork owners than a 1.5 straight headtube because to clear the top crown on boxxers and 888s, you need to put spacers between a 1.5" headtube and the underside of the top crown. Not that it really matters when its only a few millimetres.