Yeti SB-95 29er visits Singletrack Towers

The cheery northern two-metre Pete*, road warrior for Silverfish, popped in to see us yesterday with the first Yeti SB-95 in the country. Conveniently in XL, just his size…

It's hard to believe that those are huge 29in wheels...

* Not to be confused with the Original Two-Metre Peter who works for Shimano Europe…

The Yeti SB-95A is the big wheel version of the SB-66 and we first saw it at last year’s Eurobike Show where it caused a lot of frothing, along with the new SB-66 carbon. Back then the bikes were probably very early samples, but the production bikes are now available, and more importantly, available in the UK.

Fox 34s. You're going to see a fair number of these on 29ers this year.

Intense is making System 29 tyres for, yes, 29ers.

e*thirteen hubs used to be Chub hubs. Sorry, but we preferred the old matt carbon look to the new plastic-look carbon.

Quite what the ’95’ bit stands for, we’re not sure because the bike offers 127 of rear wheel travel. The suspension system is Yeti’s ‘Switch’ system which changes the shock ratio during the suspension travel. (We covered it here at last year’s spring SB-66 launch)

So… bike out now (in normal people sizes too.)
Stay tuned for our long term review on the SB-66 soon.

Features
· Custom butted hydro-formed alloy main frame
· Tapered inset head tube
· Oversized pivots
· Endure Max angular contact bearings
· Yeti Chip System dropouts can be upgraded to 142mmx12mm axle
· Dropped post guides
· Removable ISCG05 tabs (sold separately)
· Large tyre clearance
· E-type front mech
· Custom chain slap guards

Neatly flaring head tube

The Switch System just visible in the blue anodising there.

Without 6ft-something Pete in the shot, it doesn't look that odd, eh?

Head angle – 68.5degrees
Travel – 127mm
Shock – Fox Float RP23 Kashima
Colours – Black and Grey or Grey with Turquoise
Sizes – S,M,L & XL
RRP – £1999.00
Out NOW

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (7)

the_lecht_rocksthe_lecht_rocks May 4, 2012 at 1:04 pm

nice, how similar in Geo is that to the Tallboy LTc ?

ratherbeintobagoratherbeintobago May 4, 2012 at 1:05 pm

I thought it was SB95 as it’s a 29er and has 5 in (127mm) of travel, and the SB66 as it’s a 26er with 6 in?

Andy

bebbeb May 4, 2012 at 1:12 pm

slightly slacker in the HA and shorter chainstays than a TB LTc. Was lucky enough to spend a couple of days on one of these and had a LOT of fun

ChippsChipps May 4, 2012 at 1:46 pm

That’s a fair point Andy… 🙂

ashfanmanashfanman May 4, 2012 at 5:13 pm

Hubba hubba.

ashfanmanashfanman May 4, 2012 at 5:14 pm

p.s. you should do a mag test between this and the Tallboy LT.

warpowarpo May 6, 2012 at 12:03 pm

“Without 6ft-something Pete in the shot, it doesn’t look that odd, eh?”

It’ll start looking weird as soon as you hit the size “S” of the same bike.

29’er kinda make a lot of sense for bigger blokes, I think. Same as 12″ are good wheels for toddlers.

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