Scott and I quickly made the deal in a Boulder coffee shop. The color scheme, size and component level matched my 2002 ASR exactly! A call to Seth (Bubba) at Yeti confirmed that the ride had been built by former Yeti factory sales guru Scott Damman and was still for sale. The first one served up was a beautiful cream and clear coated 2002 Dura Aced road ride with a familiar sounding e-mail address. A trip to E-bay and a for searching for Road Projects quickly ended my torture. Being a loyal Yeti mountain bike fan, I resisted the impulse to drop mega bucks for a Postal Service look-a-like and shave my legs. My cycling coach (Medically Based Fitness, Boulder, CO) broke my heart when he insisted I acquire a road bike to improve my cross country racing endurance and overall fitness during the fall, winter and spring months. The clear is really cool because you get an almost metal flake look with the bead blasted finish on the frame, it is a smaller size and has a lighter wheelset than the yellow bike 16.25 lbs. It is Clear powder coated with a purple dart. My other Road Project was one of the first ten that they built. It is built up with blue anodized Campy Record brakes and driveline, Grafton cranks and Hi-E hubs, it weighs about 17.5 lbs. After that it got 12 coats of hand sanded clearcoat!! Pictures don't do the paint justice. The frame was powdercoated and baked then they applied the graphics. Unfortunately, it was a pain to keep looking good, tarnished REALLY badly, so I sent it back to have it painted. I wound up buying the bike back from him (The other Road Project was my original)and rode it for about a year. very strange dude to say the least as he did the same thing with 5 different bikes. The customer rode it once or twice and lost interest. The frame was originally ordered from Yeti raw and we had it polished for one of my customers when I owned a shop. My Yellow/Black Road Project is the Last bike that was powdercoated and painted in Durango before they tore the ovens and paint booths down after Schwinn/Questor bought them and moved the offices to Boulder. I've not had time to ride it yet, too nice to get covered in road grime! ,Cheers Col. Its specced with Campag record and Chrous stuff and Mavic wheels, I'm going to get a Chris King headset on when they arrive. Its pretty sweet with a one off paint job done by Spectrum, it red in this pic but changes with the light from gold through green and back to red, its awesome! You need to ride road every once in a while, and I'm Yeti loyal!! Will post my '92 ProFro when I get around to taking the pic.įinally got round to getting you a photo of my Road Project I got off Scott at Yeti. Original 8spd Ultegra (yep, it still works) with Mavic hubs and rims. I bought it direct from Yeti and have been riding it fairly regularly ever since. The Road Project section needs a little more flavor so here's my '96 R.P. The Yeti really skips over rough road sections and climbs super well. I have a carbon ONCE frame and a Merlin Extralight. All Dura Ace with a Paul's Front derailluer, Ultimate Ti seatpost and a sweet Alpha Q carbon fork. Got direct form Yeti a few weeks ago to add to my collection. I noticed you only had one Road Project in Your Yeti's so here's a picture of my new Orange Road Project. Hi, my Name is Zele, this is my Road Yeti, it is equipped with Dura-ace 16 speed, ergal bolts, Carbon fork by Look, wheels by Mavic, Titanium stem by Ibis, Saddle Flite Gel Titanium and rear gear by tiso Here are some pics of my yetis and I hope you will enjoy them I have a 1996 (97?) Road project in a special yellow/red Troy Lee design. Road Project Single Speed, Easton bars, post, stem, Dura Ace crank 39x17,Speedplay pedals, Conti GP4000
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It's like I went back in time 12 yrs and found a hardly used small frame with full dura-ace groupo and awesome matching red Mavic Heliums. The planets aligned for me getting this, picked her up off Craigs List whilst visiting the Colorado last year.