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2019 Yeti SB150 TURQ X01 Eagle Race

Sb150. Yes please. (Product Review)

The Good

Excellent climbing position and pedaling platform. Cutting edge geometry seems to work. Plows through any line, but still pops and plays. Quiet, and the internal routing is clean and easy. Can race enduro almost out of the box. Highly tunable suspension. Truly a bike to progress on. Can run a coil...

The Bad

Expensive, particularly this build with no carbon wheels. Tires are not up to race spec for most tracks. Did I say expensive? Sizing could be tricky. Definitely requires an aggressive riding style and position to really attack the corners( this is also a pro I think)

Overall Review
I don’t have time to type up a full review, but I have put about 100 miles on a demo SB 150 in the mountains of Santa Cruz, CA. I have also been on the SB 130 an equal amount of time and I will give thoughts on that bike another time. My experience on the SB 150 has been really fun so far. I have been privileged to demo a lot of bikes and tend to favor long travel bikes for the riding around here. Climbing: This bike climbs well, particularly up long fire roads. It has excellent traction up rocks roots and loam. The front end stays down really and drives precise up technical sections, but that...
Posted by yetimike2019 on 3/2/2019 8:42am
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