Here you will find all the Yeti's of the Month featured in 2003

February

The one and only- This is John Parkers prototype Yeti, the bike that is the reason your on a Yeti today, Its now owned by Michael Staab.

Owner of www.mtb-classic.de where you will find old skool Yeti, Fat Chance, and many others.

Here is what he says about his bike.

. Awesome bike with some really unique details. Frame Size is 19". top tube 59,5cm, wheelbase 109,5cm, chainstay lenght 47cm, head tube and seat tube are 69°. Seatpost diameter is 22,2mm (!). Rear Brake WTB Rollercam, BMX bottom bracket with Bullseye bearings.

I'm really glad that i got it, will hang from the wall in my home-office and will get a ride from time to time (have to fix the headset first). Fits perfectly to my other 2 FROs since I own one bike for every Yetiman Logo now ;-).

March

Here is the March Yeti of the Month,

Its a Yeti AS-R that was owned by Tara Llanes herself! Now owned by Laura in the UK, this bike features all the best bits from Yeti and its sponsors from the 2002 season, this was one of Tara's training bikes.

As seen in Chainsmoke 2 !!

Aprils Bike- Tracy Bike set up with 2 chainrings, 34 and 44 by 11X32, 32 is locked out to act as protection to the disk wheel. 66T Mammoth ring will be framed (unless I decide to also crash one day at Mammoth thru the banners into the crowd.) top tube is a LLLLONG 24", seatube is a short 16. the bike rides pretty stiff as air pressure has been adjusted to 175lbs. The handle bar looks like a proto thermo plastic bar in natural color. Yetiman saddle by Selle and other goodies like a ringle seatbinder in orange gold. The Rock shox DH of the period completes the bike with a super long 80mm travel for the day. The bike is in mint condition. This bike handle well. more like a stiff sprung XC bike. It tracks very well. At speed it's stable due to the long top tube. when I ride it I feel like i am on a Ferrari.

May's ~Yeti of the Month.

Here is some pics of my new ride.

Spec: Boxxer Team with Goldtec crwn/stroke Hope 205mm discs XTR MRP Goldtec/Hadly with tubeless Mavic D321 and Michelins Ti-spring Ti/mag V12 pedals Matching saddle (!) Easton Scandium bars, RF Steelset and Thomson seatpost finishing the deal.Just over 18,5kg Cheers! Jakob

Matts Yeti of the Month for June

It rides like a soft tail and yet is so stiff and light, it accelerates like an F1 car and climbs like a mountain goat. I have tried to retain a part of the traditional Yeti image with the Ringle and Hed rims and combine them with the best of the 21st century with the Hope discs and Rockshox Psylo's. I love this bike, to me it is the best bike I have owned and that includes the 5 Yeti's that I already have. Note the Yeti Hed King rotors? A personal touch that is subtle and yet superbly cool I believe.The bike is not quite finished, with 2003 XTR and some other little touches like Yeti decals for the Hed rims but nonetheless, I am fairly happy

July Yeti of the Month

Custom Yeti's don't get much more unique than this! Its a one off Yeti AS-R Tandem, made by Yeti as a wedding present to Steve (Part guardian of Yeti ;) ) and his new wife. Apparently it took some making, and there are no plans for a full production run. Maybe $25000 would make them change their minds?

August

Yeti of the Month August was spotted while I was at the Yeti factory.

Custom parts are all over this thing, Ti ARC seat post, less cable guides, and more that are secret.

Yeti OTM for September - Matt's Yeti Lawwill 6.

Pearlescent paint by Spectrum in USA- The guys who paint all new Yeti frames (For now-Yeti want to move it back in house, like in Durango) .

I could write tons of crap about this bike,like, Custom King 12mm rear hub, custom painted this and that, special finish on the 'stickers' on the HED rims (natural carbon of the rims), 3 chain rings, custom Hope rotors, But I don't think I need to write such things, just check out the pictures.

OCTOBER- What would be your dream bike? For Jean is his ARC that he rode at the UK TribemeetBuilt up with a long list of dream parts inc- Avid Ti brakes, USE carbon post,Answer Carbon bar, Middleburn Cranks, SRAM X0 groupset,Rockshox SID, Chris King (Yummy) Headset and Hubs.

I'm sure you'll agree, a pretty pimpy bike

NOVEMBER- Not many bikes have been sent in for the Yeti of the Month Competition,

So here is my ARC,the bike that started Yetifan, I have owned it since new, and try and ride it as much as possible. re-painted by Yeti at Durango in 95, its a 1993 ARC HT. frame no A0850

Parts include Ringle, Kooka, Mavic, Cooks, Chris King, Manitou 3, Yeti bars and Grips, Grafton brakes and Cranks, Onza bar ends, thumb Shifters, flite, Old XT and XTR

December- Henning has sent in his Ultimate, Henning who is from Norway, was one of the very first people to discover Yetifan, and has helped out with a lot of the old Adverts and magazine clippings etc, this is just one of his many Yeti's...........

U1585 - ca.1991?

The frame was originaly bought by one of the former owners of "Sykkeldelisk", the norwegian Yeti importer since 1990. The original color was "Forest green", and the original owner built it up with first generation XTR and a mag21.

Eight years passes, and in november 1999, I found the frame after e-mailing a fellow in a norwegian newsgroup. He had bought the frame from a police auction for stolen bikes. we agreed on a price of approx. £180 - and my dreams started!!!

This was my second Yeti - but I realized this would be a different project!! This was before I discovered EBay, and when thinking about how this should be built, I understood that getting the "right" parts for it would be a problem...

After sandblasing, two different painters had a go at trying to powdercoat it, the second made a decent job - and the choice of color was inspired by the original Ultimate project bike in MBA.

Jim Potter (back then at Yeti Cycles - now at Maverick American) provided me with original stickers, and my goal to build a 110% Shimano-free bike started!!! (Yes, it hasn't got a single bolt from the big-S)!!!!

See the 04 Yeti's of the Month here!