Spotted: New YT Tues - Lošinj DH World Cup 2018

Apr 18, 2018
by Mike Kazimer  
New YT Downhill Bike

The first round of the 2018 DH World Cup is in full swing, and the pits are bustling with activity as mechanics assemble this year's race rigs and get prepared for the wheel smashing carnage that lies ahead. Pinkbike photographer Ross Bell spotted Neko Mullally's new YT race bike, and although it still resembles a Tues, it's clear there have been a number of changes to the design. The top tube mimics the look of the new Capra, losing the brace that extended from the seat tube to the top tube on the previous version. The chainstays look like they're carbon, a departure from the alloy stays that were used before.

The bike still uses YT's Virtual 4 Link suspension layout, which is a Horst Link at heart, but there's a new rocker link that connects the seatstays to the downtube and drives the shock. From the driveside, the rocker link is completely smooth - the mounting bolts are located on the other side of the bike. It also looks like more internal cable routing has been added - the derailleur cable disappears into the downtube just underneath the rocker link.

YT weren't ready to disclose any details, and there wasn't a 29" version to be seen, but if I had to guess I'd imagine that the reach has been increased and the head angle slackened slightly, changes that have become the norm for nearly every new bike that's released these days. Nothing's confirmed at the moment, so feel free to ogle the photos and speculate away.


New YT Downhill Bike
New YT Downhill Bike
The rocker link has been revised, and the mounting bolts are now found on the non-driveside.


New YT Downhill Bike
New YT Downhill Bike

New YT Downhill Bike
That downtube protector is going to have its work cut out for it this weekend.


New YT Downhill Bike
The toptube has a design that's similar to the new Capra that was announced earlier this year.


New YT Downhill Bike
It's all carbon at the back of the bike; the alloy chainstays have been replaced with beefy looking carbon ones.


New YT Downhill Bike
New season, new bike. Race day can't come soon enough.


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145 Comments
  • 260 4
 You can remove that chain and that back tire because Gwin and Mulally give zeros about that stuff
  • 95 3
 Neko is going to one up Gwin and run with no rear shock.
  • 29 7
 @medardlefevre: Or no fork... just manual the whole run
  • 134 9
 @dubieB: i predict Gwin winning with no bike: just him running down the hill
  • 40 2
 Unchained Mullaly, by the YT brothers - my favorite duo.
  • 7 1
 @RedBurn: Especially if it's raining so hard you can't walk without slipping.
  • 5 0
 "That downtube protector is going to have its work cut out for it this weekend."
Ha, understatement of the year!
  • 3 0
 @RedBurn: ha ha ha ha
  • 1 0
 @RedBurn: :beer
  • 1 2
 Looks like Rallon.
  • 3 0
 @dubieB: both of them are going to just fly their bike down with telekinetic super powers
  • 1 0
 Put a secret tent up around that bike you crazy maniacs.
  • 200 15
 No water bottle cage. All im gonna say.
  • 10 1
 What? you can easy fit a water bottle where the shock was on last years bike, Arron dont need no shock or chainset just rides the track like a pump track!
  • 2 3
 Baaahahahaha
  • 5 2
 Not even the thirst master 3000??
  • 4 1
 Can't even fit a dropper post.
  • 4 0
 @chyu: and forget a frame bag for bikepacking. Next.
  • 6 0
 It's a combined water bottle and shock. Pressurised drink system, next level stuff...
  • 6 0
 Gwin doesn't need water - Water needs him.
  • 2 0
 @paulsproat: Everybody knows that...its the 40 days and 40 nights stuff in that book innit Wink
  • 2 1
 @paulsproat: Are Gwin jokes the new Chuck Norris jokes?
  • 63 4
 That looks fast as hell while sitting still in the stand with the wheels off!!
  • 2 0
 I’d like to see how fast it would go without them
  • 1 0
 @prenderville: Chainless, wheel-less, frame-less
  • 47 11
 New YT Tues news on a Tues-day!
  • 73 2
 except it's Wednesday.
  • 9 3
 it's wednesday though
  • 139 2
 It's Thursday you slow pokes!
  • 28 1
 its Tuesnesday
  • 8 0
 We're all too young and have no talent for puns on a Wednesday
  • 5 0
 2:32am Thursday here dude.
  • 26 0
 It is Wednesday my dudes
  • 19 0
 @handynzl: Good to know the world will not end at least till tomorrow, Please give a heads up from Down under at least a day to get stuff in my space ship?
  • 3 2
 Why's everyone so silly, how it can it be 2 different days, it's wednesday.
  • 13 0
 it's clearly Sunday
  • 8 1
 @dhrider38: nah, that was an iron horse from a while back.
  • 1 2
 I often ask what day it is. Gettin' old sucks. OR, I've learned that it doesn't matter what some dude somewhere invented re calendars and such...a day is a day, relax Man! heehee
  • 2 3
 @Ozziefish: #lookslikeasunday ...? if only (different gens, both gorgeous)
  • 2 2
 @Jack-McLovin: aaaaaaAAAAAAA
  • 1 1
 @hairy-g: Cant tell if your trying to be funny, or just incredibly stupid.... hhmmmm
  • 3 1
 @ridehard84: Wow, I'm not that simple
  • 3 0
 @dhrider38: www.pinkbike.com/photo/15756500
  • 2 0
 @rcrdrvr: instant "add to favorites"
  • 1 0
 @dhrider38: yup
  • 32 2
 YT is really showing us how its done! Rad looks, affordable pricing, and class-leading performance.
  • 26 2
 Amazing how the usual "pressfit is shit" doesn't appear on YT's comments.
  • 3 2
 @jclnv: Beat me to it sir!
  • 6 0
 @jclnv: water bottle cage > Pressfit
  • 4 0
 @jclnv: Was thinking the same thing.
  • 1 0
 It looks like an external cup!!!!!!!!
  • 2 0
 @theminsta: Maybe but all the trail bikes are PF.

I'm playing devils advocate as I like PF.
  • 26 2
 27.5 or 29 who cares? It's world cup season.
  • 19 0
 Oh look! Its a properly designed bicycle! Surfacing, graphics and cross sections all talking to each other.
  • 5 0
 I thought the same, its such a beauty. Would love to turn bike sketches into CAD. Carbon frames raised the design stage on another level, thanks alias and rhino!
  • 1 0
 @damaci: might wanna give MODO a try
  • 1 0
 @miguelcurto: Yeah Alias is a bit too painstaking for turning sketches into CAD (better for surface control but not for fast workflow). Can be done just very time consuming. Rhino and MODO are better for generating quick iterations and building small parts.
  • 9 0
 Gwin raced a few of the Fontana Winter Series, so no 29er should not be any news to anyone. However, he had a cover over his front triangle the whole time. It's still not clear what he was hiding from this.
  • 17 0
 nah just super aero
  • 56 1
 Water bottle cage
  • 2 0
 @scary1: haha. That would have been awesome since it would have meant Gwin couldn't use it!
  • 1 0
 Doughnuts, obviously Wink
  • 6 0
 probably either unpainted or junk painted

Another World Cupper had a proto frame sent to him so quick earlier this year that the paint never cured and it did a gnarly looking roughed up battle worn thing that would make for a cool stock paint job.

You know who you are..and if you're reading this, get them to do it brother. "Hair toss"
  • 5 2
 There is a reason that the bike pictured doesn't have a shock on it yet. Friend asked Gwin about it at Bootleg and he said, "Just wait till the first World cup" so we should see what was hiding very soon. Could have just been this new frame but I don't think so.
  • 3 3
 It was his world champs frame. The cover was so the bike wouldn’t get scratched while shuttling. Dead serious.
  • 1 0
 Longer, and more progressive. That's on the geometry side of things, for the rest it's just some aesthetics changes
  • 2 0
 @kleinblake: which year was his world's frame solid black with the new rocker, down tube protector and cable exit port/cover under the rocker? ep1.pinkbike.org/p6pb15644535/p6pb15644535.jpg
  • 1 0
 @literally: haha you right. He was on the worlds frame at the most recent south ridge race
  • 3 0
 @mixmastamikal: Gwins frame has a pretty stock looking X2 on it over on Vital
  • 1 0
 He was probably using the cardboard tube that day at the races no shock at all @mixmastamikal:
  • 10 0
 The first news in a while no one can complain about
  • 18 2
 But Israelis might ride it, and it might be ridden on tracks that aren't WC worthy, and WAKI might comment on it, and can it hold a water bottle?!
  • 14 36
flag WAKIdesigns (Apr 18, 2018 at 11:08) (Below Threshold)
 @Jvhowube: do you have a slightest clue what I was referring to when I wrote this? I couldn’t give a tiniest fart about politics in Israel or US or Kekistan. It was a friendly poke at a dude who gives and kind of saying: huh we can finally focus on bikes, not dumb politics. Now to the bikes, this is a rather unexciting bike, I’m more into watching it’s pilot fly it
  • 3 0
 I can 100% complain... I wanted the same bike as Gwin and can’t now! Ha. Will have to get a low spec TUES for the year. Fml.
  • 3 0
 @WAKIdesigns: I'm sorry that you know what Kekistan is
  • 5 0
 @WAKIdesigns: I was just joking that people were complaining about you in other threads, not calling you out directly. I understand your immediate defense mode though - people are really on your case today.
  • 1 1
 @WAKIdesigns: what has all the monkeys fired up today? I missed the thread referenced here...
  • 7 2
 ....you don't care if the bike has a good leverage ratio curve, stiffness, weight, wheelbase, HA......most of you out there just look at colors, and overall shape Smile
  • 34 1
 Same with my women, except any color is fine..
  • 1 0
 The tues has like the lowest ratio of all right? But they toned that down on the Capra (much to my disappointment)...wonder if it’s the same story here? I doubt it if Gwin has anything to do with it and he definitely did.
  • 3 0
 @endlessblockades: THe wheelbase of women is really important to me
  • 5 0
 Looks like 62 deg HA to me. Fight me.
  • 3 0
 the top bridge of the 40 looks also a bit different. the clamps for the stanchions go a bit down and do not stay in one line with the steerer tune clamp.
  • 2 0
 And it doesn't look like it's GRIP2
  • 1 0
 @vid1998: could imagine to only aaron run on it. not many riders have em yet. last year i think it were just minnaar, hart, gwin, while others where instead using an completely different RAD damper cartridge.
  • 1 0
 @westagil: Maybe... Maybe there will be more info in next days/weeks since the new Boxxer just came out.
  • 1 0
 @vid1998: I would not be surprised at all if fox released something in the next couple of days, with Sea Otter and the first WC happening this weekend.
  • 1 0
 @Trudeez: Totaly forgot about sea otter, fox always reveals something there but since they already revealed the news about new forks/shocks last week or the one before I don't know what they can come up with other than Live valve or whatever it's called.
  • 3 0
 hey guyz. none of these pics are gwin's bike. if you're wondering about shifters and shocks and stuffs wait and see if there is anything different on his bike.
  • 1 0
 VITALMTB.

TRP
FOX40
FOX X2 AIr
SRAM XO
E13 bits...
Renthal Carbon
NON Crank Brothers pedals (think this where Hts)


Pretty standard.

www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/2018-Losinj-World-Cup-Pit-Bits,11680/Aaron-Gwins-New-YT-TUES,121386/iceman2058,94
  • 3 0
 I looked at the first photo and was like, is this a new suspension design??? But than I realized they haven’t put the shock on yet.
  • 5 0
 This is one sexy bike!
  • 2 0
 Very nice, props to yt for being innovative, on the other hand brendog is getting roosted on his insta coz his scott looks identical to a session lol
  • 4 1
 Wheres the bottle cage mounts...
  • 2 0
 Damn, I was about to pull the trigger on a Tues. Do I wait, not wait? What to do?
  • 25 0
 you can win a World Cup on the current model, but only if you race it last year.
  • 1 0
 Snap. Thinking the same thing. Would be sick if these became available but probably next year.
  • 1 0
 @jamesdunford: with Boxxer 2019
  • 1 0
 Hold out just a little longer, the new range is closer than you think, and spec and colours are sick!
  • 1 0
 You will be waiting for 8-12 months to get your bike anyway - It will not make a difference.
  • 1 0
 @bizutch: Mid pack, old man class in local races. I race for mediocrity.
  • 1 0
 I notice these photos are of Suarez and Mullaly's bikes, not Gwin's.... Perhaps Gwin is running a different proto frame?
  • 2 0
 I mean, we all knew it was coming...
  • 2 0
 That simple badge on the headtube tho! Damn.
  • 3 0
 Silver spokes FTW!
  • 2 0
 spokes come in different colors?
  • 2 0
 Looks amazing! I’m in love Big Grin
  • 3 0
 not like a session
  • 1 0
 Downtube protector. More like BB protector while the rest is hung out to dry and get smashed.
  • 1 0
 Just waiting on Claudio’s course preview
  • 2 0
 SEND IT RICKY
  • 1 0
 Gwin would kick ass on a road bike
  • 1 0
 Great attention to detail and a nice looking rig!
  • 2 2
 Could quite see the shifter but the rear mech looks like a regular SRAM mech.
  • 2 0
 definitely a sram shifter judging by the profile shape and barrel adjuster
  • 3 0
 @ctbiker888: Gwin's could be different?
  • 1 0
 It’s always been that
  • 2 1
 www.pinkbike.com/news/aaron-gwin-box-shifter-and-derailleur.html

Good to have some confirmation after Sherlock got a bit overzealous in the off-season.
  • 1 0
 @vinay:

VITALMTB.


SRAM XO derailleur




www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/2018-Losinj-World-Cup-Pit-Bits,11680/Aaron-Gwins-New-YT-TUES,121386/iceman2058,94
  • 1 0
 So nothing happened
  • 3 1
 Looks like.... a Tues
  • 3 0
 looks FAST
  • 2 0
 Looks like a Harley Davidson.
  • 2 1
 Oh it wasn't a water bottle holder...
  • 1 0
 No 29+ minions? Harsh toke core-haas!
  • 1 0
 Sweet!!! Now if some people can pronounce the name correctly lol.
  • 4 0
 two-ass Smile you're welcome
  • 1 0
 My next bike, now I just need to wait a year for the close out deal!
  • 1 0
 Looks like they've moved from a 10.5 shock?
  • 1 0
 Is it world champs already?? (Paint job )
  • 1 0
 it is Angel Suarez's world champs bike from last year
  • 1 0
 all the hype and secrecy for NOTHING (nothing very important)
  • 1 0
 Is that the bike Gwin had covered in Fontana
  • 1 0
 did they change the headset which keeps loose every ride.
  • 1 0
 I'm a big fan of low, long, sleek looking bikes. And this thing is porn.
  • 1 0
 Essentially the same bike, just more refined. Beautiful.
  • 1 0
 Looks Awesome
  • 1 0
 NICE!!!!
  • 1 0
 ..wow..top
  • 1 0
 no bottle cage
  • 1 0
 Hot bike!
  • 1 3
 I was faster than the guys on this team, but now that they are racing this machine, I’m afraid I will be beat.
  • 2 5
 it's also on their website so not really much of a spy shot.
  • 3 0
 It's also not the same as the 2018 model on their website if you have those things...you know...eyes.
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