Yeti 2008 AS-R Seven + 303 Updates
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007At Eurobike 2007, Yeti released information on their 2008 line. Yeti’s got some new stuff as well a lot of refined products. You can see the full catalog here (pdf).
The big changes that are noteworthy is updates to the 303, and a new bike called the AS-R Seven. The AS-R Seven is an innovative design that challenge the norm while offering functional benefits. Hopefully it doesn’t fall into the lefty mentality. Check out more inside to see what Yeti’s got planned with this bike.
2008 Yeti AS-R Seven
AS-R Seven (keep in mind its still a prototype for the most part)
- New platform. Has the same main pivot location as the ASR family, but the linkage is tailored for longer travel and designed to work with an air shock. Some key
features on this bike. - Incorporated a single-sided carbon chain stay to increase tire clearance, give better front derailleur clearance, and eliminate the noise associated with the chain hitting the chainstay.
- Alloy Seat Stays
- 1.5″ headtube
- ISCG tabs
- We are still testing the new design, but expect it will meet our standards on the next iteration.
- The rear pivots rotate around the rear wheel axle and the rear brake attaches to the chain stay – this isolates braking forces.
- The dogbone is carbon for added stiffness.
- All tubes are hydro formed and custom made for this application.
- Rear wheel travel (7â€).
- Weight (7.25 lbs).
- Available March 2008.
- 30.9mm seatpost
- The AS-R Seven also looks to have a split-pivot on it as well but unconfirmed at this time.
- MSRP expected to be $1899
303 updates
- Key new features - New hydro formed top tube and front mount (where rail attaches to frame), new tube set on the rest of the bike. 30.9mm seatpost. New colors and graphics. Available December 2007.
- lighter weight 225g thanks to the new butted/tapered hydroform top tube (cycling news)
- MSRP expected to be $3469
September 11th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
If the brake is on the chainstay of the AS-R Seven, it’s not a split pivot. The whole idea of the split pivot is to put the brake on the seatstay so that you can control the brake reaction force.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Agreed. It’s hard to tell 100% but it looks to be on the seat stay but the press release does say its on the chain stay.
The clearance for the caliper if it were mounted on the chainstay would be rather interesting. It’d need a really wide chainstay to clear. So my speculation is that the caliper is mounted on the seatstay for those reasons. I guess we’ll find out soon enough though
September 11th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
This probably qualifies as “reading too much into it”, but if you open up Yeti’s Eurobike pdf product presentation in Illustrator, the brake mount is in fact drawn as a part of the chainstay.
I have to assume Yeti doesn’t design their bikes _entirely_ in Illustrator, so that might not mean anything. (Is it obvious I’m interested to see this bike in the flesh? Heh..)
September 11th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Nothing wrong with that. I too opened it up (just in acrobat) and zoomed in on it but its still inconclusive for me as its not a real picture. Soon though…
September 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
slightly sketchy video, doesn’t seem 100% correct on some of the details (from eurobike too)
http://www.bigbike-magazine.com/index.php?module=bigbike&action=News&ido=257
September 11th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
OH MY GOD!!!!! the bike i’ve been praying would come out is really coming out! count me in, it’s between this thing and the marin quake now. wooo hooooo!!!!
September 13th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Bike Mag’s got an update on the 08 yeti’s including a picture of the asr-7. It also says that the caliper is indeed mounted on the chainstay, but the picture looks like it might be on the swingarm still. If its not, that’s going to be some interesting caliper clearance as mentioned. I’ll email Yeti to see if they’ve got a more definitive answer.
I can’t wait for a good picture… but more info below.
http://bikemag.com/news/freshproduce/Yeti-preview-08/index1.html
September 13th, 2007 at 10:34 am
don’t the wheel and the caliper have to be attached to the same frame member? with the chainstay being run inside the seatstay the caliper would then have to be on the chainstay, which is what it looks like from that pic. at bikemag.
this appears to be the workaround to not interfere with the split-pivot patent which specifies that the caliper mount be on the seatstay, which is run inside the chainstay.
from dw himself: “If the brake is attached to the chainstay, then there is nothing that the design can do to “isolate braking forces”. It will perform identically to any other single pivot bike (with the same main pivot location) under braking. The person that wrote the information on the other site was just confused, thats all.”
September 13th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Yeti emailed me back and it is indeed attached to the chainstay…
September 13th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
do we know if the listed frame weight is with or without the shock?
September 24th, 2007 at 12:59 am
http://yetifan.com/2008_yeti.html