yup. wonder what, if any, impact this has with his SC sponsorship (that's still a thing, no?) and him trying to race WC's
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Get the same Genio guys who made PB's monstrosity to make him a properly sized bike instead?
He seems pretty happy with the xxl v10 for the moment, if he's really lucky he might get the Minnaar extended chainstays.
Yeah I just meant for doing the group test stuff, he can find bikes he's happy with but getting that many xxl bikes together wouldn't be easy, some don't even make that size.
Is the "XXL" like a 490 reach? Hell Kiran has to be about 6'3" and I always messed with him about the bikes being small. He would just laugh. Hopefully, that thing is 500-515....
What the shit? Yetis in the freeride game.
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Reed Boggs Joins Yeti Cycles - Pinkbike
Reed Boggs signs with the Colorado brand and shows off a wild SB165 build.
did not see this coming.What the shit? Yetis in the freeride game.
Reed Boggs Joins Yeti Cycles - Pinkbike
Reed Boggs signs with the Colorado brand and shows off a wild SB165 build.
also interesting is that he is pictured with a DJ frame which yeti hasn't offered in years.
I would tend to agree that the xxl is probably smaller than ideal but he seems happpy with it. Happy enough to race on anyway.
Probably one of my old ones.
i still have the arc hardtail i bought from you
I have turquoise and white one in my garage.
The Denim Destroyer gets a well-deserved factory ride!
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GT Factory Racing Adds Denim Destroyer Johannes von Klebelsberg and British Ripper Ethan Craik to 2020 Roster
GT Bicycles, and GT Factory Racing (GTFR) today announced exciting changes the 2020 team roster. New riders Johannes von Klebelsberg (IT) and Ethan Craik (UK) will join seasoned vets Wyn Masters, Martin Maes, and #2 ranked Noga Korem. “I’m stoked to have Johannes and Ethan join the crew for...
didn't Maes get second at 2018 worlds on a GT right after winning a round? and at least one EWS round the same year?
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It is amazing that the same bike that was winning world cups for Gee just a few years prior could be so subpar. Even former GT riders have come out and said so straight up. (which is very rare)
The new GT looks to be alot more up to date, pretty amazing how DH rigs just keep getting better and better.
Bruni and Pierron are at the very top of the game 100%.
It would be interesting to put them on say a 2018 GT Fury for a few races. My money says they would still be top 20 but not on the podium?
And Wyn was struggling to qualify in a bunch of races...I think Maes is just a beast. Put him on a '98 KHS and he'll probably get a top 40
There's quite a few of them around where I live, the Norwegian importer is in my town. From what I can see, the Sanction was a better enduro-bike than the concurrent Fury was as a DH bike. Both Maes and Wyn did very well on that thing.
The new Fury does look like a monster though, anybody in here got some time on it?
didn't dangerous dan ride a yeti for a bit back in the day?What the shit? Yetis in the freeride game.
Reed Boggs Joins Yeti Cycles - Pinkbike
Reed Boggs signs with the Colorado brand and shows off a wild SB165 build.
The new GT is pretty legit. I think it was their old ones which were hopeless. They seemed to spend so long trying to invent the next bike thing with I-Drive and a bunch of weird proto rigs etc, and eventually just went to a simple design with good geo and look at the results it has gotten them.
Johannes will probably benefit mostly from having some tech support and a crew around him. Getting his results as a privateer was impressive.
yeah, danger & super t rode yetis for a bit in the early aughts.
Which is fitting. Average house price in north vancouver looks to be around a cool 1 million pesos. Dental communities?yeti is basically returning to their north van freeride roots...
Yeti even made a dedicated freeride bike back in the day, the AS-X, round about the same time the DJ and the 4x were in "production". Yeti actually used to be cool.
that AS-X was a beast as I recall.
Yeti is still cool. Times change. You can't fault anyone for following the market.
Yeti is still cool. Times change. You can't fault anyone for following the market.
detached? $1m would be on the tear down end of the spectrum.
A friend had one while I had an Uzzi VPX, both with Sherman forks. That bike was so sketchy coming from the VPX it was not even funny. Sky high BB, even shorter feeling TT, steeper and a super flexy swingarm. I seem to recall that he broke that swing link thingy multiple times as well. Even at the time there were way better options.
Dunno, all? I just googled it. I thought it would have been higher.
I never see GT bikes in the trails, though the brand was founded 30 miles away. Global capitalism is weird.
But I’m thankful, as they look godawful.
I’d assumed they were only sold in Euro.
But I’m thankful, as they look godawful.
I’d assumed they were only sold in Euro.
Geometry on that bike kinda sucked. I bought it to run 7" FR / 7" RR, but setup like that the BB was way too high and the front end way to steep. It felt best running the rear in 6" mode. Pedal kickback was terrible in granny.
It came out in 2003, everything sucked in 2003. Steep HTA and a high BB was par for the course, anything under 70 degrees was "slack" back then, but at least it had a 1.5" head tube unlike my Foes Fly so you could run a sub 900lb single-crown. Not that it mattered, back then we were all just happy to be on something that wasn't a 70mm travel Y-frame.
I doubt anybody who looks back fondly on the rails actually had to live with them. Great concept, and fine for a dedicated DH bike that gets serviced more than ridden, but good god those were a PITA. I doubt we'll see an SB200, but agree that if by some chance we do see a new Yeti DH bike, it'll have some form of the Fox mini slider thing.
Signing Boggs seemed very last minute, more of an "Oh shit, we could have a Rampage rider that cheap? I guess maybe send him a frame or something"
Yeti is still cool to their present audience. I'd say the massive cachet they had back in the 90s and even as recently as the graves 4x era has subsided dramatically. And, I'm sure their business is just fine.
Memory lane: https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/member/Yeti-Old-School-1989-1993,2308/89-93OldSchool-01,19382/Yeti-Cycles,2748
Meh... the Titus Quasimoto I had before it and the Giant Reign X I had after it both had better handling geometry.