New Yeti Bikes, anyone? [MTB]

[kelseyh]

I feel like it’s just awkwardly caught in the middle between the downcountry bikes and true trail bikes with more travel. It has the travel and geo of the downcountry bikes but the weight of a trail bike with more travel and better descending geo. Most of the downcountry bikes are light enough that they fill a niche of longer travel XC bikes with varying degrees of more oomph than a dedicated race bike, and the true trail bikes are heavier but also have more travel and geo that is even better suited for descents than what the SB120 seems to offer. Mike Kazimer seemed to like it well enough in the Pinkbike review as a bike evaluated on its own and not in comparison to the competition, but even he pointed out that it would’ve been nice to see it commit to one or the other and stand out against the competition. I’m not the market for this either (I’m definitely more in the lighter downcountry bikes market personally), but it reads like a miss to me too, even if the whole lineup is shifting toward bigger bikes.