Here is another one of my personal bikes that I finally got the chance to finish and wanted to share.
I did a full writeup on the bike on my blog which you can see here : http://www.secondspincycles.com/2016/06 ... xr309.html
To sum it up this is a one of the earliest Yeti FROs out there, serial number is XR309. Assuming Yeti started with 300 it would imply that this is the 9th Yeti FRO ever made. This is not in any way of a statement of fact, but based on my conversations with Parker that's what happened, who knows. It was most likely a team bike early on, the later used for testing during the development of the C-26 (there is a mount for a strain gauge on the downtube).
Here is how the bike was sold on ebay some 10 years ago.
It was purchased by another vintage bike collector who executed a pretty damn good build.
I acquired this bike a couple years ago in a trade and it just sat there for a while. I recently got off my ass and pulled it out of mothball and did a few small modifications in an effort to start riding it. Here is the end result.
Finally here are some trail pics from the first shakedown ride
I did a full writeup on the bike on my blog which you can see here : http://www.secondspincycles.com/2016/06 ... xr309.html
To sum it up this is a one of the earliest Yeti FROs out there, serial number is XR309. Assuming Yeti started with 300 it would imply that this is the 9th Yeti FRO ever made. This is not in any way of a statement of fact, but based on my conversations with Parker that's what happened, who knows. It was most likely a team bike early on, the later used for testing during the development of the C-26 (there is a mount for a strain gauge on the downtube).
Here is how the bike was sold on ebay some 10 years ago.
It was purchased by another vintage bike collector who executed a pretty damn good build.
I acquired this bike a couple years ago in a trade and it just sat there for a while. I recently got off my ass and pulled it out of mothball and did a few small modifications in an effort to start riding it. Here is the end result.
Finally here are some trail pics from the first shakedown ride
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