ASR
A DECADE AGO YETI PEACED OUT OF THE LYCRA GAME. WHILE THEY WERE BUSY GETTING DOWN, XC GOT A LOT MORE X, CALLING FOR THE COMEBACK OF A LEGEND. THE ASR HELPS TODAY’S RACERS BE FASTER WHERE THEY HAVE TO BE. ON FIRST BLUSH IT MAY APPEAR TO HAVE PEERS, BUT DON’T GET IT TWISTED. THE REINCARNATED ASR IS A LOT LIKE NOTHING ELSE.
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The new ASR marks the most extensive carbon project Yeti has ever tackled. Yielding the lightest full suspension bike in their history, contemporizing their flex stay design to check today’s kinematics standards, providing proper sag, killer small-bump sensitivity, insane traction and 100% usable travel.
IT'S BACK.
BECAUSE XC IS X AGAIN.
The ASR is back. Yeti has never made a lighter full-suspension bike, but that’s just half the story. It brings proper suspension to proper mountain bike racing. The kind that takes skill, not just lungs.
FEATURES
HEAD TUBE ANGLE: 66.5
REACH: 465
SEAT TUBE ANGLE: 75.5
ZERO REDUNDANT CARBON
Custom ply shapes, critical material choice, intelligent draping methods, and smooth transitions between every carbon ply have eliminated redundant carbon, giving radical strength for super lightweight. Such a boundary pushing schedule driven from in-depth carbon analysis tools marks a Yeti first.
TUNED AND LEVERAGED TO WIN
With 30% sag (yes, you read right), and a relatively linear leverage rate that compliments short-stroke shocks, small bumps and trail chatter dissolve. What’s left is a sprint efficient suspension, that also delivers 100% usable travel to meet the features and fringes on today’s XC courses.
MADE FOR WINNING
THE WORLD.
The ASR is back to win at today’s world cup level. Super light and radically responsive with all the pedaling efficiency? Check.
But that’s just XC table stakes. The bike for modern XC needs modern geometry that’s just as stable tipping it over at 45 km/h as it excels on chest high drops and hugging the inside line on the steepest switchback climb.
THE FASTEST CLIMBING POSITION
At 115mm of travel and 30% sag, ASR geometry puts riders in a power position to efficiently spin, evenly weight the wheels for traction, and transition more smoothly from saddle to full-throttle sprinting.
MORE RESPONSIVE, NO TWITCH
Modern XC rewards brilliant passing, which takes brilliant cornering. The ASR’s forward-bias geometry delivers responsive steering and predictable characteristics to slash fast.
"JUST RIGHT" BB HEIGHT
A bottom-bracket positioned high enough to pedal through rock gardens, but low enough to sit below the axles for rail-like cornering thanks to that coveted, “in bike” feel.
FEATURES
REAR TRAVEL: 115MM
FORK TRAVEL: 120MM
YETI TUNED ASR FLEX STAYS
SIZE SPECIFIC STIFFNESS.
FINE TUNED.
Another goal was to engineer each frame for the same ride characteristics to give every rider the same feel, regardless of size. Every ASR frame has size-specific carbon schedules tuning at a much more sensitive level, and accurately matching torsional stiffness and chassis-flex profiles too. Tedious? Yes. Worth it?
A LEGACY OF FLEX
The year was 2003 – Yeti's flex stay design was a decade’s ahead approach to XC full suspension. Today, the reincarnated ASR considers the relationships between leverage rate, link size, material properties of the carbon layup and modern short stroke shocks to deliver responsive, efficient, and astonishingly light XC-specific suspension.
CARBON LAYUP
IT'S WHAT'S NOT INSIDE THAT COUNTS
Yeti wanted to kill carbon redundancy everywhere, not just where it was easy. Their 20+years of carbon-only experience told them they could remove solid volume at pivots and still exceed the demands of XC, with no downside on performance or bearing life. Slimmed, solid-carbon dropouts cradle the axle with far less carbon for the same strength. More efficiency, better responsiveness, less weight.
CHASING GRAMS
Once they achieved their desired kinematics, they looked at how to shed weight with the link. This quest turned the one-piece 7075 aluminum alloy link on T-Series frames into a structurally rigid exoskeleton, as functional as it is sculptural.
ROOM FOR TWO WATER BOTTLES INSIDE THE FRAME.
Room for two water bottles keeps racers fueled for the biggest efforts.
XS:21 oz on seat tube, 15 oz on downtube
S-XL:21 oz on seat tube, 24 oz on downtube
CUSTOM INTEGRATED CHAINGUIDE.
A custom, proprietary designed chainguide mounts efficiently into the lower pivot bolt for a lightweight, clean and effective solution. 28-36t Max (38t MD-XL) chainring compatibility.
INTERNAL LOCKOUT ROUTING KEEPS SPRING EFFICIENCY TIDY.
Working in conjunction with their secure cable port system, internal routing allow for a clean integration with the RockShox 3-Position TwistLoc lockout system.
AMPLE TIRE CLEARANCE FOR MODERN, FULL-VOLUME RUBBER.
Clearance for a 2.4 tire with 30mm internal rims provides maximum traction and ride quality.