Post by kidfeech on Jan 20, 2008 23:10:25 GMT
Now it’s been at least 6 months since I have been on the site and it’s seems to have changed quite a bit.
One thing that always annoyed me with the old site was the constant negativity. Yeti is a small company and although it has history that does count for much nowadays. I always use to get frustrated with reading stories about how yeti shouldn’t make bikes in the Far east or in turquoise, who gives a sh*t, this type of talk just turned me off and made me think that most yetis are not really ridden hard there just looked at or rode around the family trails. As a mountain biker I like to keep it simple, is the bike fast, is it value for money, is it put together properly and will it stay together?
I have a 575 and have rode it for 3 years its a great bike but as a design engineer and keen biker I found problems, dog bone breaking (X3), premature bearing wear (X4), rusting bolts(x2) and high speed instability these small problems were apparently down to me setting the shock up wrong, washing the bike incorrectly and not drying it properly (according on the old forum) based on this my new bike was going to be an intense 5.5 because all these problems have been addressed.
Well imagine my surprise when the new 08 575 seems to have fixed all the small problems I didn’t like about my old 575.
So this brings me back to the start. I was going to buy a new bike and move away from Yeti, not because yeti wasn’t good but because the competition is better. I came back to review a forum that although negative always had good advice. Only to see this has also been fixed, this is a sign and I think a new 575 is definitely back on the shopping list.
I will continue to pop in and take a look at what’s being said just try and keep this forum positive!
One thing that always annoyed me with the old site was the constant negativity. Yeti is a small company and although it has history that does count for much nowadays. I always use to get frustrated with reading stories about how yeti shouldn’t make bikes in the Far east or in turquoise, who gives a sh*t, this type of talk just turned me off and made me think that most yetis are not really ridden hard there just looked at or rode around the family trails. As a mountain biker I like to keep it simple, is the bike fast, is it value for money, is it put together properly and will it stay together?
I have a 575 and have rode it for 3 years its a great bike but as a design engineer and keen biker I found problems, dog bone breaking (X3), premature bearing wear (X4), rusting bolts(x2) and high speed instability these small problems were apparently down to me setting the shock up wrong, washing the bike incorrectly and not drying it properly (according on the old forum) based on this my new bike was going to be an intense 5.5 because all these problems have been addressed.
Well imagine my surprise when the new 08 575 seems to have fixed all the small problems I didn’t like about my old 575.
So this brings me back to the start. I was going to buy a new bike and move away from Yeti, not because yeti wasn’t good but because the competition is better. I came back to review a forum that although negative always had good advice. Only to see this has also been fixed, this is a sign and I think a new 575 is definitely back on the shopping list.
I will continue to pop in and take a look at what’s being said just try and keep this forum positive!