1994-95 Yeti ARC

Team edition with HED wheels & blue Ringle. Pure mid-nineties race bike porn.

1991-92 Yeti Ultimate

No surprise to see this one in my garage. The classic Yeti Ultimate. One of the most recognizable frames to come out of the mid-nineties in a classic Yeti paint scheme. This thing is heavy and handles like a shopping cart. Its such a fun bike to ride. A

1993-94 Specialized S-Works Epic Ultimate

This is one of my favorite bike projects. Specialized had been doing the carbon/steel Epic thing since late 1989. In 1992 Specialized commissioned Merlin Metalworks to craft titanium lugs that could replace the steel ones to make it even lighter. I think this frame would have cost like $4,000 in 1994.

The frame was an ebay purchase in Vail, and amazingly the guy was kind enough to drive it all the way into Denver to my house. This was no garage queen, but it was in decent enough shape. This project originated as a weight weenie vintage bike that, while it ended up light enough, was never really that light. 20lbs I think it came out to with the rigid Direct Drive fork.

If you were building a bike from scratch, in 1994 this thing would have set you back a few years financially. Carbon and titanium everywhere. The lack of color anodized anything just makes this thin even cooler: a serious race machine.

95 Catalog photo:

1992 Klein Rascal

I was never a big Klein fan as a teen. For some reason they just weren't that prevalent in New England, and all the rumors I heard and magazine reviews I read said the same thing: pretty to look at, expensive, harsh, fragile, etc. I bought this on ebay mainly to flip, as stayed cheap yet came with some real nice parts. I ended up throwing some period-correct stuff on for just one ride. Pretty fun! I decided another Klein purchase was around the corner with an Attitude or Adroit.

This is also my first real example of the photo studio set up. I had yet to get the lighting results I wanted, but we all have to start somewhere.

1992 Grove Innovations X-Frame

This is the only bike to date that I'm embarrassed to have put effort towards. I was impatient in looking for a Ritchey fork for the Breezer and ended up getting the fork with this frame. I had some XC-Pro parts laying around and decided to see how it rode. It actually handles nicely but its heavy and ugly as sin. I ended up taking this to Keyesville as nothing else functioned at the time, and although it performed well, I regret "showing" it.

1994 Breezer Lightning

The blue Breezer Cloud 9 was the bike I wanted most when I was 14. The paint and clsasic parts selection just oozes class. As I couldn't find a Cloud 9, I had a Lightning repainted with the color scheme. I was waiting to fall in love with this bike, but I never did. It still made for some nice photos though.





This was also featured in the 2010 Privateer article. The photo took up two pages!

1998 Fat Chance Yo Eddy! Restomod Project

This was an interesting project that took almost three years to complete cradle to grave. By 98 the Yo Eddy frames were designed around an 80mm suspension fork and had more "modern" details like a threaded bottom bracket and 1 1/8 headtube. I wanted a vintage bike on which I could thrash, so I had this frame retrofitted with disc tabs and had Rody at GroovyCycleworks (the chief Fat restorer) mix up some team lavender paint. To this day the lavender paint is still one of my all time favorites.

As purchased:







This was no garage queen







This was my main rider for about a year. Sadly, the wet paint just doesn't hold up like powder, and this is currently de-commissioned and in need of a serious round of touch up paint.