I guess I should be careful about what I bid for on EBay. I didn’t even expect to get taken seriously. Now I just hope that I’m not being taken advantage of?! I’ve wanted a Yeti since I was a teenager (14/15) but they were just too expensive and I had a great deal on a Specialized S-Works team bike that was about the same price as the Yeti I coveted but I was able to get it for about half of the store price because I worked in the bike shop and I earned my discount by doing the boring stuff like breaking down cardboard boxes and the minor repairs like changing out tubes and tires and adjusting brakes and derailleurs for customers who didn’t want to get their hands dirty.
@Lugwho Yep N+1 is the way I see it too!! This will be the 6th bike once I get it built to ride. I have 3 other unfinished project bikes too but this one is going to take precedent over the other unfinished ones. 🤓
@Offthetop it says that it’s used. I don’t think it was used very often or very roughly. My bikes from that era have more chips and bare frame showing than paint left on them. I’m going to make it into a single speed townie bike. But I’m going to have to keep my eye on it even when locked or it will get stolen. The mtn town I live in has a huge bike theft problem. The first year I was local they caught a family of bike thieves with over $50k in stolen bikes in their flatbed truck and over $100k in stolen bikes stashed in their home. They had been making the rounds to all the mtn towns and just snagging $5-$10k bike’s when they saw the opportunities. Open garages bikes on car racks not locked etc. I have a bike that costs more than my Toyota truck and I’m very careful with it. It’s always double locked while it’s on the truck and at home I lock it to an anchor in the cement floor of my utility room. I’ve had a $5k track bike stolen from me while I was riding it and I just stopped at city hall thinking it was safer (it was a night ride) and as I put on an extra layer 3 guys came over and grabbed it and I was pretty helpless to run after them in my cycling shoes but I was angry so I asked the other people who were talking to them before the theft and they told me where they lived out of fear that I would call the cops on them as they were minors and they were drinking and smoking weed in public. So I set off and walked about 15 city blocks into a worse side of town and I almost got beat with a baseball bat from an irate gangbanger who didn’t Ike me walking my his house repeatedly making his weapon of a dog bark and his female neighbor came out and asked me what I was doing on that side of town at that time of night and she implied that I was too white to be in that neighborhood but she was able to get the guy to calm down and I walked away and called my dad (a retired police captain) to come get me and he was not impressed by my risk taking behavior. He came up with a plan and I posted signs for the bike offering a reward and then I waited. Less than a week later I got a call. The people who stole it wanted $400 to sell it back to me and so I met them in a park with my cell phone left on so my dad who showed up separately in a vehicle was able to hear everything that the contact was saying to me. He wanted me to give him the $400 and he would go around the corner to get the bike. I told him that I couldn’t trust him and he got mad and I said adios. Luckily he was a stupid criminal and he went to his residence right away and my dad followed him and got the address and then we turned it over to the police and a detective that my dad knows called me a few days later and he had me ID my bike. The frame was the only thing that was left every other part was gone and the parts that were on it were just crap. But I did get three gangbangers busted and they were all on parole or probation so they got significantly more time than a bike thief and I had learned their tagger names because they didn’t want to tell me their real names when they were organizing the meetup so they were busted for graffiti too. Unfortunately they told me that I would not be able to ride through the city because they planned to rape me and kill me if they saw me again and I had just put a deposit on a place 4.5 hours away in the mountains and I didn’t plan on going for any more night rides in the city anyway. This was pre Covid19 and it only got more dangerous to ride in the city after Covid19 too. I only rode alone because I didn’t have any friends who had my schedule as I am on disability and I would ride whenever my pain was less than an 8/10. Now I only ride in my parents neighborhood with my niece and nephews or in the mountains around my place. Sucks to feel limited due to criminals but it’s not the city I grew up in which used to be the safest big city in the nation which I know my dad was proud of because he spent his career working hard to make it that way. Unfortunately he was almost killed less than a block from home while dropping off a Christmas gift when 3 gangbangers who were very high on meth decided they wanted his vehicle and the one who jumped in the drivers seat couldn’t figure out how to get it into gear as my dad was talking to the neighbor he was giving the gift to. When he saw the guy in his vehicle he ran after him and he picked up a rock to help mark the vehicle and he threw it as the attempted thief was running away to get back in the car he came out of. When one of the other guys saw that my dad threw a rock (that missed the back window by inches) he got out of the car in the middle of the street in the middle of the day and using an AR style rifle that was later found to be a ghost gun too he fired at my dad and the neighbor as well as a dog walker who had quickly gotten his phone out and filmed everything and luckily the shots went over the heads of my dad and the other two men and one of the bullets went through the wall of a garage and punctured a hot water heater tank. The criminals fled and 911 was called and 45 mins later they were pulled over on the north side of town and the shooter tried to flee the scene and took his gun and dumped it in a dumpster in the underground parking garage of an apartment building and then claimed that he had nothing to do with the other men in the car. Fortunately the apartment building had surveillance cameras pointing right on the garage entrance and the garbage dumpster. They were all busted and they all got their residences searched and it was discovered that they were both manufacturing and selling meth as well. So they all got about 3-6 years. The house that’s diagonally across the street from the house my dad was stopping by had a security camera system that caught the entire incident and it has full audio. So I was able to see just how close things got to being a tragedy. And the house that the bullet ruptured the hot water heater belongs to a retired sheriff. Lots of cops mostly all retired now live in the neighborhood I grew up in and we have never had any incidents like that one. It was 3 days from Christmas and I don’t even like to imagine what if the bullets hadn’t gone over the heads of everyone.
@BlueGreenGrey just the frame and I believe the headset and bottom bracket. I have parts from that era that I want to put on it. Turquoise blue is the other color that the team used and I have a handle bar and front hub in blue as as a wheel and a carbon fiber rear hub that has a yellow nuclear ☢ symbol logo on it as the company was called Nukeproof. I have some disc brakes but I have to find some hubs that they are compatible with if I want to use them. I have a titanium railed saddle that was the popular choice in the nineties. I need to find a stem and I have a couple sets of cranks and pedals and making it a single speed solves the issue of having to find a derailleur. I’m excited to have a project bike and a bike from a company that I idolized because they had the best racers on their team and they had the most style and attitude out of any of the other brands that were just a bunch of “stick up their ass” preppy nerds. lol. 😉 It took me 31 years but I finally got my first dream bike lol 😝
