Thread: My Yeti ARC, Team Marin, and too many questions

Quote: Originally Posted by Sizzler that ARC is so sweet looking! what would happen if you road it, catastrophic head tube failure? speaking of which, is that blood spatter on the crank? Well hopefully you'd leap over the accident and land running, holding the front end; handlebars, fork, and still spinning front wheel, while the rest of the decapitated bike tumbles down the hill. It did photograph that way didn't it? I should make...

Quote: Originally Posted by colker1 well... what's not broken there already will break this raises a question I have had about yeti's. many vintage yetis I have seen for sale have cracks. was this because they were structurally flawed or just ridden hard? Maybe the ones being sold are the ones with problems or perhaps cracked yetis still have value while other brands couldn't be sold after cracking? Am curious!

Quote: Originally Posted by Sizzler this raises a question I have had about yeti's. many vintage yetis I have seen for sale have cracks. was this because they were structurally flawed or just ridden hard? Maybe the ones being sold are the ones with problems or perhaps cracked yetis still have value while other brands couldn't be sold after cracking? Am curious! from the 1992 yeti catalogue: "The A.R.C. frameset is sold with a...

Quote: Originally Posted by sherijumper I cannot believe somebody gave away that Yeti ! well... what's not broken there already will break soon so how are you gonna sell it?

Quote: Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya i highly doubt that would be a lasting solution. Ok then, JB Weld and a hose clamp around the tube.

Quote: Originally Posted by biss-ness Seriously, your still talking about this... never forgive, never forget.........................

Part-out the broken Yeti and create a battle fund.

It wouldn't be a tragedy to put those high-end purple parts on the Marin (it is a Tange Ultralight-tubed frame, after all). But, you could buy several of those Marin frames with the money you would make parting out the Yeti. If you want to go with something more subtle, a period correct XT group would probably work just as well, if not better. Nice problem to have. And by the way, anybody who recognizes the purple parts on the Marin would...

Why not just Chris ( 3D ) or Frank put a new headtube on the ARC? Chris has most of the original yeti powder colors at his shop. Replacing a headtube really isn't too hard... Last time I was up at Franks he was, in fact, replacing the headtube on an old Manitou...

Quote: Originally Posted by sever Has anybody ever tried to translate the stuff in these MTB catalogues back from german? It's really hilarious that we're relying on the You-ropeans to keep track of our history for us. I've been trying to do the page from the Marin catalog above in google translate and I get mostly gibberish. Quote: auf der suche nach einem chromoly rohrproduzenten fur die Marin palette sind wir eine liaison...