Originally Posted by serious
And while you are at it, make sure your bike is a beefed-up rigid roadie with fat tires and toe clips. That way, your chances to hurt yourself on technical trails are increased ten-fold.
Actually the C-26 that Tomac and quite a few others (such as Julia Furtado) were using was a bit of a timebomb waiting to go off. They didn't know it at the time of course and the bike performed well and was quite strong... at least for a season. However over time, there was delamination issue of the CF at the bonds with the aluminum lugs. The problem of course was that Yeti neglected to properly isolate the interface between the CF and aluminum with an inert material such as mylar. I think this was caught and fixed fairly early on but Tomac's C-26 from 1990 is not a ridable bike.