............but not just any YETI FRO.

Its Jimmy Deatons bike, as raced in DH, Slalom & XC (remember those days!) back in 1991.

Spec is exactly as it was in 1991, nothing changed, nothing modern. Even the cables & tubes are from 1991.

There are a lot of perfect and unused modern 'retro bike' builds, but I love the fact this is all period & wears its use well. This is no perfectly built spotless machine(maybe it was once), this thing shouts ' I've been raced' all over it.

Each scratch, chip and scuffed sticker has its own story, I love that this bike has raced against some of the greats, and was ridden by a true hero of early days MTBing. Jimmy won the Repack in 83 & 84 !

Some nice little touches here and there too.

Thanks for looking, hope you like it as much as I do.

I loved this when I saw it in Deaton's shed. He has a great collection and I'm glad this ended up in your hands.



Likely that thing went in to get the seattube fix 92-93, but yeah, its all right there.

He rode it for 91 season only, and that was that.

Still has all the 91 sponsor stickers on it, so not had a respray.

Wow ¡! a true piece of MTB history, love it ¡!

Bloomin' heck I remember the name of that rider but I didn't remember him being so tall!!
Nice bike though, must not have been cheap....

Nice catch Andrew!

Do you have any other historic collectibles ?

It must be Yeti special month or something

Nice piece of history there, good work in sourcing Deaton's actual bike. Does look big mind, also don't recall him being so tall!

Awesome Impressed.

Yeah, Jimmy is pretty tall. Met him a couple of times now. Myles was pretty tall too.

Yeah Yeti-man I have another nice bike from the period, although thats less original, its probably a lot more famous if you were around back in the day.

Andrew

that is awesome. nice pick up, how did you convince him to let it go!?

They thaught he would grow into it

Fantastic,

You have to love an original bike like that, such a period feel.

You see some lovely retorations but the lack that spark the bike develops with use and ownership. Just personal details like stickers the owner's stuck on, marks and cratches from racing. The history of it

Bike's like this make the hair stand on end

Regarding Deatons height...

That's funny that you just posted this, I was just looking at these pictures.

Hi Andrew,

thanks for showing us! It's so nice to look at the real thing, relieves me everytime to see that they really do look and feel like in my memories, just real and not 'retro'. I'm all with you in regard to the scratches, chips and scuffs, keep them coming and let them tell the great stories ! Do you have by accident some (race) pics of this bike in action?