While Yeti has made many different bike flavors over the years, much of the Colorado-based brand’s identity lies between course tape. Yeti has a rich history of developing not just some of the fastest racing machines, but the quickest athletes as well. More than a few elite racers throughout the last couple decades have broken onto the scene in turquoise kits. Driven by this passion to win races, Yetis are often more planted and stable than zesty and snappy.
Even the popular SB130 mid-travel 29er, a bike you’d think would be devilishly mischievous, really prefers getting down to the business of pinning it. There’s unfortunately not a race format that mid-travel 29ers are exclusively used in, but if there were, the SB130 would no doubt be on the podium. It’s the sort of bike that drinks a protein shake after rides. But Yeti has been focusing energy of late on a couple bikes that’ll smack the protein shake off the table, slam down a couple shots of tequila and peer pressure you into staying out late. The SB140 is one of them.
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