Yeti launches SB130 Lunch Ride At The Sea Otter – A Beefed Up Trail 29er

Yeti has launched the SB130 LR (Lunch Ride) at the 2019 Sea Otter. The SB130 has been out nearly a year, featuring 29in wheels and 130 (actually 136mm) of travel. The ‘Lunch Ride’ edition is based on the bikes that the Yeti Cycles employees spec out for their own riding. The concept first came about with the SB5LR a couple of years ago which was the current hot rodded bike of the time, but with the new SB130 and SB150 coming out, it was only a matter of time before one of them got Lunch Rided (Lunch Ridden?)

The SB130 LR gets a 160mm 36 fork, up 10mm from the stock 150 34.

Yeti has a famous daily lunch ride, which takes in the great trails around its Durango base. As such, the bikes ridden on the lunch ride tends to be burlier than stock, probably due to everyone going as hard as they can for a short period of time on trails they know well. This generally means a short stem, longer and beefier forks and a more capable, piggyback rear shock.

yeti sb130lr — Even with the DPX2 piggyback shock, there’s room for a bottle cage.

The Yeti SB130 Lunch Ride is designed for Trail and Enduro, apparently… But then, so is the SB150…

Yeti is distributed in the UK (and Europe…) by Silverfish…

Chipps Chippendale

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Comments (3)

timraventimraven April 12, 2019 at 12:40 pm

That is one of the prettiest bikes I’ve seen since I fell in love with my Rocket.

bobg05bobg05 April 13, 2019 at 9:41 am

Standard SB130 is still 130mm travel. LR has the same DPX2 piggyback shock, but 55mm stroke vs standard 52.5mm, which is where the extra 6mm rear travel comes from. Other differences are the 160mm GRIP2 fork (vs 150mm FIT4) and beefier Code brakes.

bobg05bobg05 April 13, 2019 at 10:10 am

Oh and the geo changes very slightly as a consequence… taller, slacker, slightly less reach.

Large comparison here:
https://geometrygeeks.bike/compare/yeti-sb130-2019-lg,yeti-sb130-lr-2019-lg/

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