I must be lucky I didn't have high end suspension as a kid. I had old an old USD DNM and after my father changed a few things inside it started performing quite well. The only problem I had is I let a fat man parking lot test it and he bottomed it out so hard the top cap was pushed out of it by the main rod inside it. Yes he was very fat.
Yeti 303 Carbon
- Thread starter Trekrules
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Hahahaahaahaa!
Now here's a nightmare fork from back in the day. Eleven pounds, 4.5 inches of travel and it twisted in the crowns every other run (the only fix we found was running a second top crown). Don't miss the uncut Club Roost bars that were maybe 24-inches wide?
Project X? Props to you for getting it off the ground!
Momentum...
what kind of fork is that, trixxxy?
The Champ!
Haha, I had a Hanny LT10 on my first DH bike. Had to carry a can of triflow in my pack and spray the seals/stanchions at the bottom of every whistler run. Good times! 
since this thread took a turn for the nostalgic.... http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/gear/article/inside-yeti-cycles-massive-photo-gallery-33589/
some sweet pics in here of bikes I recall drooling over while reading MBA back around 1993-1996
I had an ARC AS/LT(like this) with Schwinn paint on it for a few months when I was a little kid. I never built it up. A wooping 1.5 or 3(!) inches of travel with two shock mounts. I have a feeling there weren't many of those things floating around. Sold it for an Ellsworth hardtail. doh.
Italy and Switzerland are so nuts for old Yeti stuff that FTW and Chris Herting(3D), (the original Yeti fabricators) get paid handsomely just to repair old bikes and make replicas of obscure dumb **** like prototypes of prototypes that some geek saw in MBA.
Ain't no brand with more enduring cool than Yeti, fo sho. Rabid, rabid fans.
Your frame w/SWEET Risse shock and final iteration proto swingarm is only 9.5 pounds though. I just weighed it!
Apply Ridemonkey "looks flexy" meme now;
Vaguely remember that thing. thought it was pretty badass... mistake selling it!
You're telling me . . . you wouldn't believe the calls I get from non English-speaking customers looking for crazy bits and pieces from frames made 15-20 years ago. It can be a pain dealing with these sorts of requests, but I definitely love the fanaticism.
JP
I reckon . My old graves dj frame paid for my ticket home after selling it at 07 worlds at fort bill . You sure have the ethos sewn up John.