It’s been a while, what with planes, volcanoes and the Dalby World Cup, but here continues the first of many remaining reports from the big season-opener…
First up, David Turner has been busy – in between tweaking his downhill/freeride designs, he’s had time to design a new cyclocross bike. It’s still in prototype form (expect to see those pointy tubes rounded-off in production. Anyway, without further ado…
The things you do when you're bored of doing 8in bikes
No chainstay bridge = correct
Flared downtube, one set of bottle bosses.
Production bikes will feature the new 44mm headset 'standard'
No disc mounts here. Proper canti mounts.
David's running his as a 1x10, but he admits that some riders might want a front mech.
MRP G2 SL (superlight) chain device, includes a guide and a roller and has a bash guard rather than a ring-guard for weight.
MRP
MRP is also making this Brian Lopes signature device.
MRP camber two-piece cranks. Designed for chain devices.
The Yeti Big Top that we brought you before the Sea Otter, now in more detail.
Here it is in all its new paint-job glory.
Thermoplastic back end with alloy dropouts bonded on.
Rather complicated back end there...
Different dropouts are available - this is the singlespeed guise.
ISCG mounts and one set of bottle bosses.
Bolt-on tab for bolt-on front mechs.
The new Yeti team DH bike - probably what you'll be able to buy in 2011...
Where's the rail? There's one there under the shock spring.
OK suspension buffs, get your axle curves plotted.
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.)
Those Yeti SS d/outs are a disaster!
First the Pace 104 and now that Turner ‘cross. There’s something about light blue bikes that gets my credit card twitching. Yummy.