Bike Check: Johann Potgieter’s custom World Champs bike
It’s the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland this weekend and Johann Potgieter will be representing South Africa in the Elite Downhill race on Sunday afternoon. He’ll be piloting a custom painted YT Tues for the event. The Team Racing Dudes were presented with custom painted YT Tues frames for the 2018 World […]
Bike Check: Theo Erlangsen’s YT Industries TUES
Last month, Theo Erlangsen won the 2018 South African Downhill Championships at Hartbeespoort besting a stacked field of former champions and up and coming hopefuls. When not racing Theo also displays some insane freeride skills on his YT TUES including some huge air at the recent DarkFEST. Take a look at South Africa’s fastest bike […]
YT Industries announce new TUES downhill bike
YT is introducing the new generation of their successful carbon downhill bike TUES. During the last two years, YT and the MOB have teamed up closely on the development of the new TUES in order to take the bike to the next level. YT TUES CF Pro Race Mob Edition. The gained knowledge of two […]
YT launch new Capra in both 27.5 and 29
Just four weeks after their Brand Relaunch Campaign and the launch of the 2018 JEFFSY and TUES range, YT is hitting the news big time again, presenting the much-anticipated new CAPRA range for 2018. The YT Brand Relaunch Campaign has established one thing for sure: the guys at YT don’t do ordinary. And the new […]
YT Industries reveal 2018 range and new branding
Following on from an anonymous series of films telling the stories of four incredible Young Talents – the 87-year-old IronNun, downhill skateboarder Ryan Farmer, Mixed Martial Arts fighter Polly Beauchamp and reformed mob enforcer, James Giuliani – YT Industries (YT) revealed their role as teller of these empowering stories the weekend just gone. The four […]
Johann Potgieter’s YT Industries Summer Youth Camp
The 2017 YT Industries Youth Camp will once again take place this year at the majestic Vuurberg Wine Farm just outside Stellenbosch. Hosted by 4-time South African downhill champion Johann Potgieter. It will take place this year from the 12th to the 16th of December. The camp is usually 4-days, however this year I will […]
Long Term Review: YT Jeffsy CF Comp
YT’s 29er Jeffsy has been part of our long term fleet since February and has been put through its paces on a variety of trails during the test period. For those who are not familiar with the Jeffsy 29, it is a 140mm 29er trail bike with geometry that can be adjusted using a flip […]
Three months with the YT Jeffsy CF Comp 1
We had a YT Jeffsy on review earlier this year and they have been kind enough to give us one for our long-term fleet to see how it will stand up to a full year’s use. For those who are not familiar with the Jeffsy 29, it is a 140mm trail bike designed around 29-inch […]
Video: Catalocos – Erik Irmisch visits Lacondeguy and the rest of the Barcelona crew
This is the last stop of Erik Irmisch’s winter trip where he met his team rider bros Andreu, Bienve and Adolf. Some impressions from Erik: After the intensive training session in Italy, we headed off to Spain (we were up with the sun!). Ahead of us, a 10-hours drive. It’s a long way to go […]
Video: Aaron Gwin meets the Jeffsy 27
To complete the launch of our new trail bike Jeffsy 27, YT just dropped another edit. Aaron Gwin and rider Ray Syron enjoyed some sweet “winterish” moments on the all new Jeffsy 27 in California and Nevada. Edit by Brock van Heel / Suspended Productions. Bonus video: It is the latest video of YT team […]
Where are the German bikes?
German cars are the focus of our four-wheeled desires, but where are all the German mountain bikes? It’s the great curiosity of contemporary mountain biking, an absence of German bikes despite the crushing excellence of German mechanical engineering in relation to all other things wheeled. And it’s not a case of Germans being averse to […]
YT reveal smaller wheeled Jeffsy 27 trail bike
Not even one month after presenting the new 2017 bike range YT is at it again, rolling out another trail bike – the JEFFSY 27. Jeffsy 27 CF Pro Race Silver. It was only last year that YT appeared in the all-mountain market, where they made quite an impression. This segment now sees further growth […]