Yeti’s SB150 is a big wheeled, big travel enduro racer that has been tested through all of the nastiness of the Enduro World Series.
Seriously, just how good does the new Yeti SB150 look?
It’s said that some bikes just look ‘fast’… and in our eyes the SB150 has that in spades. I mean, come on, doesn’t it just look like it’s sat on the launch pad, revving its engines for take off?
The SB150 is brand new and fresh from a season of testing on the EWS by two times Champion Richie Rude. We were treated to a quick look at the new bike, thanks to UK Yeti distro Silverfish UK.
So the Yeti SB150 is a 29’er, with 150mm of suspension out back, angles for a 170mm fork up front and a full carbon frame. Tucked away down below is Yeti’s Switch Infinity link which we’ll tell you more about below.
As you’d expect, the bike has been developed with the help of EWS superhero Richie Rude. Richie and the team spent time testing the Yeti 5.5 and the SB6 bikes and then used what they’d learned to make the SB150.
They brought together the best bits of both of those bikes, evolved them and made a new long travel, big wheeler. They’ll also now phase out the 5.5 and re-make the SB6 with a different rear suspension platform.
The Yeti SB150 is available in two levels of carbon frame. The ‘T’ Series (T stands for Turquoise) frame is the top end version and will be available as an XO1 build. The ‘C’ version adds an extra 200g but brings down the price tag, available as a GX build.
Geometry is a step forward for Yeti and looks to be more aggressive than you’ve previously seen from the brand. The SB150 has a 64.5° head angle, 77° seat angle, a 480.2mm reach on a large and 433mm chain stays – all thoroughly modern, hard hitting numbers.
The goal of the new SB150 was, as you’d expect, to create something that would crush downhills whilst still climbing beautifully.
The heart of that is the Switch Infinity Link which is a bit of tech that’s has been developed with Fox and inspired from their off-road car research.
The Infinity Link is “essentially a carriage that replaces having a small linkage. It moves up and down freely and the idea is that Yeti can control the bike’s rear wheel axle path as it moves through its travel.
As the bike hits a bump and the rear axle moves upwards the carriage slides upwards and meets an inflection point and the carriage moves back down the other way towards the bottom bracket.
This means the bike can climb really well and really bite on the climbs but as it reaches the end of its travel it gives a bottomless feel”.
If you’d like a Yeti SB1150 they’re available in the UK mid-September 2018 and are currently available for pre-order through your local dealer. They’ll only be available through bike shops, and not sold online. There will also be chances to demo bikes via UK distributor Silverfish in October 2018.
The T-Series SB150 Frame Only is £3499.00 and SB150 X01 Bike is £7199.00.
The C-Series SB150 GX Bike is £4999.00.
