I had hoped to make many more of these videos, but this will be the last. We’re packing up museum bikes to send back to their owners, so I decided to finish things off by revisiting the bike of one of my favorite riders - Missy Giove. Missy the Missile is an absolute legend, and she won World Cups on a bike with only 1-2 inches of suspension. It got me thinking about how closely related ‘90s DH bikes are to modern XC bikes.
Watch Our 2016 Missy Giove Interview:
youtu.be/vPTkDuIfvkw
Read our 2016 story about Mike Wilk’s restoration:
theproscloset.com/blogs/mtn-bikes/missy-gioves-1993-yeti-arc-aslt
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0:00 You’ve heard this one before
1:39 Were the early ‘90s peak Yeti?
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