Yeti turned a lot of heads yesterday when they announced the addition of Reed Boggs to their athlete roster. With their downhill racing days a distant memory, the brand has predominantly been focused on enduro racing on its suite of long-travel trail bikes. However, with the release of the SB165 last year, it makes sense that they would be on the hunt for a rider who could put it through its paces and prove it lived up to its freeride designation.
Boggs' bike is far from standard, with the most obvious change being a dual crown fork up front, replacing the 180mm single crown fork the bike normally comes with. Despite appearances, Reed has only jacked the front end travel up 10mm to 190mm as he runs the fork lower than stock. There are also plenty of other changes to make this a freeride-specific rig that we should see at Rampage in 10 months' time. Let's take a closer look.
A new marque for Boggs and one that nobody saw coming.
Check out the bike in action:
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Pinkbike commenters: "404 does not compute, commence shutdown"
186 (6.1) here When I reached 84 Kg I was basically a skeletron.
Also, I never understood people saying "if you feel your bike is too heavy just lose some weight"
I've been 60-61kg for the last quarter century and the number of times I get asked if I've lost weight and told I should eat more is getting to me. Stupid fat f*cks.
I think this also maybe speaks to the fact that modern freeriding seems to be shifting a little bit away from janky, steep, raw lines and in the direction of a big-air dirt jumping style of riding (at least if Rampage is any indication).
@GhostRing: If you want to raise your jumping game for real, take a DJ and start sending every single double on your local pumptrack, especially those out of corners. Then go to real steep dirt jumps.
Kind of a bummer; not enough new Element buyers for Honda to keep cranking them out, but not enough used Elements for the people who do like them.
That being said, I've had mine, the 2003 AWD version, since 2007. It has 260,000 miles on it. I almost always have a bike in the back. You can go to work, go shopping, etc with your bike locked INSIDE it instead of on a rack waiting to be stolen. I regularly fold up both back seats and put two bikes back there and then two of us can go ride with no bike rack or removing wheels. I've put a trunk mount rack on both the front and back of the car and shoved 5 grown men, plus all our bikes and done shuttle runs up the Wilson Pass in Jackson Hole (2500 feet ) plus 3,000 foot shuttles in Utah. You can also open just the top of the clamshell and hang bikes off the tailgate like a truck.
I've camped in it, slept in it when I was in-between apartment contracts, gone on endless road trips, taken it offroading where no Honda was meant to go, used for many ski seasons (skis fit under the back seats when folded down), abused it, missed oil changes, high centered it dozens of times, wrecked it twice, and still it goes. It won't die. I keep saying I need to retire it and get a truck, but every time I drive it to the trailhead I just can't let it go. Its one fine vehicle.
The gang beats boggs
WADE BOGGS CARPET WORLD, WADE BOGGS CARPET WORLD, WADE BOGGS CARPET WORLD
Aussies back me up here
Yeti: Donāt reed into it too much
"Do you think maybe we could put some XT RT-86 rotors on there instead of Deore RT-56?"
"No, you get what you get. Now do the freeride for us."
Shut up and ride!!!
Reed Boggs is gonna be great for Yeti! Congratulations!!!