First Look: Yeti's New SB140 - Splitting the Difference
Nov 17, 2022
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If you're a Yeti fan, it's been a pretty pinnacle month. Matt showed you the cutting-edge SB160 consistent with week ago, then got here Kazimer with the SB120, and nowadays we are splitting the difference with the moreover-new SB140. There's however a 27.Five" model in the lineup, but this SB140 is largely the subsequent technology of the SB130 (confusing, I apprehend), and can be configured with both a 150mm or 160mm-travel fork counting on the assemble package deal.
Like the other new bikes, the SB140 is offered in flavors. S up for one of the burlier Lunch Ride models with that 160mm fork and there are six complete bikes to select from, all with a Float X marvel and burlier tires and brakes. The C1, C2, and C3 are all based totally definitely at the heavier carbon body and retail for $6,600, $6,900, and $7,800 USD. There are every other three fashions based on the pricier and lighter Turq body that uses pricier and lighter carbon fiber. You'll want $8,800, $10,two hundred, and $eleven,seven hundred USD to get the T1, T3, and T4.
SB140 Details
• Intended use: Trail using and more
• Travel: 140mm
• Fork tour: 150mm / 160mm
• Frame material: Carbon fiber, two variations
• Head attitude: sixty five.4º / 65º
• Seat mind-set: 71.8º - seventy three.7º
• Wheels: 29"
• Sizes: SM - XXL
• Reach: 435mm - 525mm
• Frame weight: three,375 grams (med Turq frame w/ DPS marvel)
• Price: $6,four hundred - $eleven,700 USD, $four,500 USD (frame best)
• More info: www.Yeticycles.Com
If you need that 150mm-excursion fork and a bit lighter construct kit, pricing starts at $6,four hundred for the C1 or $6,seven hundred USD for the C2. Turq-framed bikes start with the $8,600 T2 and $10,000 T3, or you can get the pinnacle-surrender T4 for $11,500 USD. There are eleven specific SB140s to pick out from, as well as the $four,500 USD frame, so head over to Yeti's internet site for all of the specs and data. 
The C1 model is the least costly SB140 at $6,four hundred USD.
You can get an SB140 with a Turq body in non-Lunch Ride for $8,600 USD.
If you need a 160mm fork and piggyback wonder, Lunch Ride SB140s begin at $6,six hundred USD for the C1.
$10,two hundred USD gets you a Lunch Ride SB140 T3.
The new SB140 appears much like the previous model, however Yeti's made a bunch of updates starting from geometry to cable manage.
Frame Details
The new SB140 looks masses like the preceding version, however the variations are extra apparent up close to... Or if you've already look at about their special new motorcycles. The low-hanging little bit of bulbous carbon inside the front of the lowest bracket has sooner or later been trimmed all the way all the way down to a slimmer shape that also gives more floor clearance. That's also wherein you may find a twin-density downtube protector that makes use of a softer internal layer blended with a greater tough cap bolted over the pinnacle, all of which may be removed to make it less difficult to course the dropper put up line.
Cables enter and exit at the same old places, but Yeti's introduced small clamps at each of these factors that gently hold them in vicinity and ought to preserve excess slack from rattling round within the body. Other notables encompass a transfer to a threaded backside bracket shell in location of Pressfit BB92, masses of rubberized protection at the swingarm, and a distinctly reasonably-priced and clean-to-locate Universal Derailleur Hanger. 
The downtube has a much slimmer form and further ground clearance around the lowest bracket.
Cable routing isn't tube-in-tube, but they will be held in vicinity with small clamps at each get entry to and go out point.
Yeti has moreover changed a group of stuff inside the suspension department with an eye on reliability, most sificantly moving to pressing all of the motorcycle's bearings into the metal suspension components in preference to the carbon the front or rear triangles. This makes feel for all the plain manufacturing and prolonged-time period reasons, however it is also easier and much less risky to eliminate and install bearings in a piece of aluminum than a few highly-priced hand-laid carbon fiber. There also are new floating collet pivot axles to hold all of it together, and Turq-series frames see better seals, bearings, and hardware used on the sliding Switch Infinity unit versus C-spec frames that use remaining yr's stuff.
What's all this approximately Turq and C-collection? The versions of the body are made in the same vicinity and look identical on the outdoor, however Yeti says that the Turq variations, "are made with the high-quality super carbon fiber available and provide the proper stability of stiffness and compliance." The C-collection frames get keep of, "small changes within the carbon fiber layup" that cause them to lots less highly-priced to manufacture, consequently the marginally decrease charge element for whole builds. The adventure fine and frame pressure are stated to be identical, but the fancy SB140 Turq frame weighs 3,375 grams, 174 fewer than the peasant-y C model while they may be each equipped with the equal Fox DPS wonder. 
The SB140 makes use of a revised version of Yeti's Switch Infinity to govern its 140mm of journey. Lunch Ride construct kits get a Float X, even as the standard version comes with an inline Float DPS.
Suspension Details
Some oldsters thought that the new SB160 might use a similar six-bar layout due to the fact the motorized E160, however Yeti caught with a barely revised version of the sliding Switch Infinity layout they had been refining for years. It's the same tale with the SB140, too, and that's an splendid detail; we've usually liked the balanced nature of Switch Infinity for a manner it's far always managed to do the pedal and bump-soaking up jobs further properly.
Yeti has an interesting records with unconventional suspension dess, and in case you're not familiar with Switch Infinity, right here's the gist of it. The stable rear triangle floats on two hyperlinks; the pinnacle one drives the surprise through a cut up clevis and is pretty regular, however not so down at the bottom. That's in which you'll see that the main pivot is on an anodized black aluminum provider that slides up and down on Kashima-blanketed rails and a tough and fast of upgraded bushings. Grease ports let you inject some love as wanted without taking the whole lot aside, and Yeti's also introduced higher seals, bearings, and hardware. 
See that black aspect? That's the service that determines the motorcycle's axle direction and suspension traits.
Switch Infinity exploded.
What does all that do? "When Switch Infinity reverses direction, anti-squat drastically drops for freedom of suspension movement," Yeti explains, with the black service sliding up on the two gold rails within the first a part of the motorcycle's tour for greater anti-squat and higher on-strength experience, earlier than shifting backpedal later on inside the journey in order that the chain has much less effect on the suspension movement. 
Geometry
The refinement maintains within the geometry department, with a few small adjustments right here and there but also the high-quality transfer to length-specific chainstays. While the preceding model had a 433mm rear-forestall throughout the range, the present day motorbike receives 2mm longer consistent with length, starting at 436mm for the small and as much as 444mm for the double-more-massive. The equal goes for the actual seat angles that begin at 71.Eight and go up to 77.Three-levels at the Lunch Ride model (slightly steep on the regular fashions).
The Lunch Ride builds get a 160mm-tour fork that places the pinnacle angle at sixty five-degrees even, whereas the much less aggressive builds with 150mm forks sit down down at 65.Four-tiers. Reach numbers run from 435 to 525mm, with a large sitting at 485mm and a 623mm effective toptube length.
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248 Comments
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- 146 5
More like “flossing” the distinction [Reply]
- sixty 4 3
Braces yourselves for the dentist puns. [Reply]
- fifty seven 4
My dentist has an obsession with exceptional types of dinosaurs. But his preferred type is the Flossiraptor [Reply]
- 10 eight
the yeti hate element need to be a USA thing i dont anticipate ive visible one inside the uk on a course whilst you don't forget that CRC were punting them out the door without a comeback for 50 p years in the beyond [Reply]
- sixty four 1
Give this guy a plaque. [Reply]
- 14 5
@Compositepro: They are very steeply-priced inside the US, they're extortionate right here. Nobody in their right thoughts gets them. All the dentists move for Santa Cruz. [Reply]
- 32 2
Let's drill down and get to the premise of these new motorcycles. [Reply]
- 20 2
The fees for frames and motorcycles these days, will depart a hole area in most financial institution money owed. Its almost sufficient to make me want to write in all caps. [Reply]
- 5 1
@redrook: oh santa cruz, love baby of MBUK [Reply]
- 24 1
That pun deserves a crown. [Reply]
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@redrook: startfitness.Co.Uk/merchandise/yeti-sb140-c-series-lunch-experience-clr-c3-five-carbon-mountain-motorbike-2022-turquoise?Gclid=Cj0KCQiA1NebBhDDARIsAANiDD32W_X1tsSQT36kdSjcyZqmdJ4tT-193h84NvlyeriM5Xg8CMxUgHQaAt5jEALw_wcB five grand ? [Reply]
- 50 1
Lunch ride??? More like fluoride. [Reply]
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...Beginning to look increasingly more like an e-bike. Is there a battery within the seat tube? [Reply]
- 10 4
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Yeti is the muse of all evil [Reply]
- 6 6
this comic story deserves to be in a few plaque [Reply]
- 1 three
Looks like a duplicate and paste of the vintage one [Reply]
- 4 zero
@redrook: I'm a therapist and on occasion now not in my right thoughts, especially with admire to my addiction to bikes. My SB one hundred forty modified into the maximum pricey motorbike but, positive, but a whole lot much less highly-priced to my pockets and psyche than divorce. I'd genuinely purchase one once more. They climb properly and are very playful downhill, shape of like my cat. [Reply]
- four zero
$6400-10,200 is pretty difficult to palate, some may additionally say a bridge too a long way. [Reply]
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I like Yeti walked in for the five yr checkup on the SB130 and said yup the whole lot looking appropriate. Let’s simply send them a bill [Reply]
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@Compositepro: now not positive wherein you enjoy. Loads at the path spherical Surrey Hills. [Reply]
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@Hairyteabags: sheffield innit , whole of oranges and quicker levos [Reply]
- seventy three 1
Pinkbike reviewing a purple motorcycle, extraordinary [Reply]
- 28 zero
Is it awful that I truly like that coloration?!? I’m leaning no…. [Reply]
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@TooManyBikess: it is ideal enough we're proper right here for you. We'll work through it. [Reply]
- 1 0
however it's miles...Hot......Great
....Satisfactory [Reply]
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@TooManyBikess: sure it's totally k. I'm digging it too (had a crimson 2016 SC Bronson) [Reply]
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@vhdh666: That frame come to be beauty. [Reply]
- 2 zero
@TooManyBikess: I locate it impossible to resist, too. I absolutely do not love that I ought to genuinely purchase an entire Stumpjumper comp for $500 more. [Reply]
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@jrocksdh: thank you bro, I wished that. [Reply]
- 38 13
So do Yetis suck? Or are they expensive? I get careworn from the remarks... Do you hate them due to the fact they suck? Or due to the fact you cannot have the funds for to buy one? Has everyone simply ridden one and now not preferred it? [Reply]
- 114 2
Yes [Reply]
- 30 1
I’ve demoed the SB130, SB140 and SB150 and that they were ok, but nothing precise aside from the price tag. I do much like the look of the cutting-edge one hundred and twenty, but I don’t see how it can be any higher than a Spur or Element. [Reply]
- 36 zero
They’re correct motorcycles. Just price as heaps as a used car [Reply]
- 37 three
I art work at a yeti supplier, and despite the fact that cant manage to pay for one. They are super bikes they're just very high priced [Reply]
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They ride usually well however you WILL crack the frame from an effect or simply preferred riding and the switch infinity bushings put on out fast and expand a number of play, and you cant clearly restore that with out changing it(yeti will say its desed compliance). The amount if brake jack killed me although when I became racing it. It's absolutely an absurd quantity. [Reply]
- fifty six three
I’ve had that I’ve bought 2d hand. Both had been extraordinary! It’s particularly a PB lifestyle to hate on them due to the fee. The aspect is, they’re just one of these brands that only does excessive-end, now not anything mid range or cheap. You can spend the identical or more on a Trek, Specialized, Cannondale, Rocky Mountain, and so forth., but they all provide bikes that start in the masses (youngsters motorcycles) and move all of the way to north of $10,000. Anyways, that’s my take, but I don’t simply ever preserve for a modern-day bike. I’ve been in reality happy with mine, and when I run into others on them, the tale is the equal. [Reply]
- 13 five
someone wrote an entire article for you may decide [Reply]
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@wealthy-2000: I demoed an SB130 and didn't love it. [Reply]
- 17 2
I even have demoed Yetis and didn't sense like it modified into really worth the coins.
Realistically people hate on them because of the rate and the kind of rider that you usually see on them (more regularly than no longer older, mediocre riders).
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@swcyclingproducts: why are you breaking at the same time as racing? Seems like their racers don’t have an issue with that. [Reply]
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@HB208: There's moreover extra youthful dentists [Reply]
- 11 1
I can’t communicate to the state-of-the-art ones however I had a contemporary yeti 303WC lower back inside the day. It dented upon itself - no impact. The yeti production facility dh group knew it became an difficulty. I called yeti to get my frame warrantied and they denied a layout flaw. It however baffles me that they're capable of have a frame dent on itself and flip their head.
I offered all of my yetis (had 3 new ones for racing that season) and switched brands.
The new motorcycles appearance really top notch and I’m positive they journey nicely but that still sticks with me.
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@HB208: is it because it didnt have a hole in the downtube [Reply]
- 20 1
It's no longer that human beings can't find the money for them. It's that you can pick out to pay $5k for a Yeti frame, or $5k for a whole motorcycle it is simply truely as nicely. [Reply]
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@swcyclingproducts: Usually I hate the folks that always supply up these damaged frame conspiracies, until I surely did snap my sb130 in half at the motorbike park. Hit a table a terrific 20ft to flat, but I turned into quality and have been given it warrantied. I’m on a 100 fifty now and I gotta say, the a hundred thirty become excellent till it’s unlucky prevent, and as some distance as I can inform the only hundred fifty may be even higher [Reply]
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@rich-2000:
"I’ve demoed the SB130, SB140 and SB150 and that they were appropriate enough, however nothing particular apart from the fee tag."
^^^This. There are severa bikes available that journey as well or higher than Yetis that have even greater capabilities and drastically lower charges. The call and charge exclusivity seem to be the massive promoting elements for Yeti.
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- five zero
I test rode some 4-5 years ago, I notion they have been outstanding....SB4.Five and SB5.Five I suppose, I became very inspired. [Reply]
- 6 0
They may be steeply-priced and or suck. Unless they may be red. In which case they rock. [Reply]
- 12 eleven
It comes from envy. People can’t come up with the money for them [Reply]
- 6 four
They're too expensive and do no longer experience right sufficient to justify their rate. And they make a few clearly weird spec alternatives. For instance, their preference of CrankBrothers wheels at the C models...Barf. [Reply]
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@swcyclingproducts: do not understand why this is getting down voted, EVERY yeti we had come thru the store that we bought had at the least one guarantee problem inner 6 months of buy. [Reply]
- 3 2
Yes. I have become underwhelmed when I rode a 2020 SB150. It became meh. The price modified into not. I mean, it's far a fucking bicycle, it is not going to be all that extraordinary to some other excessive-give up bicycle, so the fee seems unjustifiable. [Reply]
- 11 1
@darkstar66: I labored at a yeti company for years and I’d say perhaps 20% had a guarantee difficulty. Maybe EVERY unmarried one due to the fact to procure ? [Reply]
- 20 8
I've had a 130LR for years and it come to be and though is the right motorbike for me after demoing heaps of motorcycles that did not galvanize me. Geo is great and the suspension sense blows everything else away. If you gave me unlimited funds to shop for one motorcycle, it might be the 130LR all day. Several guys that crush trails spherical me journey Yetis - dudes that do not care approximately the logo or bling, simply need the great bike for his or her purpose.
Some human beings do now not like them due to the fact they may be kind of high priced and that they prefer to complain approximately some thing that costs above $3k despite the fact that the uninteresting huge producers have even extra costly bikes on the immoderate give up. Some human beings don't like them b/c they don't have a one hundred% no-failure fee even concept it's far a product that human beings beat the shit out of and no exceptional logo does both (I've in no way honestly met everyone out of doors of the comments that clearly had a body wreck). Some people much like to rehash the same worn-out dentist shaggy dog story ad nauseum b/c that's what other people do inside the remarks. Some people assume that something they ride is superior and the entirety else is shit. Some people love Yetis. Some others actually gave them a straightforward shake and weren't inspired. Just like the whole thing.
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@cuban-b: Or possibly Enve? [Reply]
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@brookscurran: 20% is surprisingly excessive for guarantee issues. I've labored at a Spesh provider for eight years and I'd say our guarantee claims are around five%. That's not to mention that extra bikes do no longer ruin, they truly do not fail because of a warranteeable problem.
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