Originally Posted by
ErichVonCartman
... SB66 may be fine for you since you are already have a DH bike for the DH runs. But I think you would be much happier with the SB6. It's nice to have "DH" bike that you can pedal uphill with! As you probably already know, the SB6 is a totally different bike than the SB66. SB66 is more XC oriented, even more so than the SB5 and Ibis HD3. The SB6 is more like the Nomad (the specs do match up very close), it's made to bomb! but at the same time, you can also decently climb with them (unlike a Full-On DH bike).
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Sounds like you havent spent much meaningful time on an SB-66, because you are somewhat describing my bike there, which is the SB-95 29'er. And that bike is hardly xc oriented either with 5.5" of travel but the SB-66 has more.
The SB 4, 5 and 6 are simply the most modern incarnations of the '95 and '66 utilizing a modified linkage system that is Yeti patent specific , while the older Switch system is not Yeti specific but works in a similar manner
-- (I'm a Nomad fan too - those are great bikes