Behind the Numbers: Yeti SB140

We now come to the final bike in the trail category and a slight, and hopefully welcome, difference in wheel size and suspension system compared to the bikes we’ve already looked at. 27.5” wheels are certainly not dead.

Yeti have always had an alternative take on a suspension system. Sliders and spinning elements have graced their designs for a very long time and the bike we’ll take a look at, the SB140, uses their latest incarnation dubbed Switch Infinity.

While we’ll look at what the SB140 looks like on the graphs, we can also do a bit of explaining on just how the Switch Infinity system works.

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