[RD3]

Would be an awesome museum piece or addition to a collection.
YETI-LAWWILL-Curly-LANDSPEED-RECORD on Ebay UK

Thats one BIG chainring...

 

[konastab01]

its been on before....

 

[dump]

remember seeing that in the magazines.

 

[dump]

Would be an awesome museum piece or addition to a collection.
YETI-LAWWILL-Curly-LANDSPEED-RECORD on Ebay UK

Thats one BIG chainring...

don't buy it

 

[ridingsupreme]

why would you have suspension when your trying to set a landspeed record? any road bike with suspension is cool in my book haha

 

[dump]

Because at those speeds you need it to smooth out the track. A small bump can get you in real trouble at 120MPH

 

[Sandwich]

good thing they've got rim brakes to slow them down from that speed...

 

[Brian HCM#1]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, the good old days of the Kamikaze Downhill

 

[epic]

Kamikaze? Looks more like Les Arcs to me.

 

[dump]

good thing they've got rim brakes to slow them down from that speed...

Got a hydraulic rim brake on the front... disc on the back. pretty much the best of the time.

 

[dhr-racer]

i dunno i think id want the disk on the front for the modulation... plus hitting and locking the rim with hydro rim brakes at 120mph doesnt sound very fun for your face

 

[Zutroy]

There were no mounts on the fork for a disc. Also the run was done on snow, so braking power wasn't that big of a deal.

 

[Brian HCM#1]

Kamikaze? Looks more like Les Arcs to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8wJjZ34ZQl0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8wJjZ34ZQl0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

[Sandwich]

this is true...but the bike already has a disk in the back, and back then yeti wasn't exactly known for "run what you brung," they tended to do things their way regardless (see pullshocks, floating brakes, disks on the rear, etc.).

Not sure that hope c2 was much of an improvement though.

 

[ohio]

a rim brake is just a disk brake with a 26" rotor.

 

[Hulkamaniac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8wJjZ34ZQl0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8wJjZ34ZQl0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

I think what he was referring to was that the bike is that of Carolyn "Curly" Curl and she made her attempts on snow at Les Alps if my memory is correct.

She was a well known speed skier at the time and was one of the first to bring the speed skiing suit/helmet, as well as the style/approach, to setting the mtb speed record. She even did the speed event at the winter x-games (way back, think when the still did that stupid modified snow shovel racing event!), it was a straight on run with a huge net at the end of the "braking zone".......her x-games fame came from going head-on into the net, dramatically flipping over the bars with bike in tow, and taking a huge digger on her head on the opposite side of the net.....where she put a huge dent in the top tube of her bike with her knee!!!!

Edit: Sorry, just noticed the link on the first post with a bit of the backstory.....my excitement of seeing that bike again caused me to miss the link the first time!!!

 

[Jm_]

i dunno i think id want the disk on the front for the modulation... plus hitting and locking the rim with hydro rim brakes at 120mph doesnt sound very fun for your face

You think the magura HS33 doesn't have modulation?