manufacturing successor schwinn purchased in 1995 ; volant purchased in 1999 ; chris conroy purchased in 2001 founder john parker in 1985 headquarters golden colorado united states products zeroloss technology patented ; switch technology patented website http www.yeticycles.com this article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in norwegian . june 2012 click show for important translation instructions . view a machine translated version of the norwegian article . google s machine translation is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the english wikipedia . do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality . if possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article . after translating translated no yeti cycles must be added to the talk page to ensure copyright compliance . for more guidance see wikipedia translation . paul rowney riding for yeti in 2010 yeti cycles is an american bicycle manufacturer 1 2 3 located in golden colorado . 4 early history edit yeti cycles was founded in 1985 by john parker in california during the time when mountain biking was first getting started . 5 parker was a welder who built movie sets in hollywood and later became a mountain bike designer and racer . he later became one of the sport s guardians inducted into the mountain bike hall of fame in 1995 and a trustee of norba board of directors for five years . the first mountain bike world championships took place in durango colorado in 1990 and the next year parker moved the yeti cycles factory from california to durango to be closer to the action . the company made a range of mountain bikes but were best known at the time for their iconic turquoise colored fro for racing only models . 6 early sponsored riders included tinker juarez john tomac and juliana furtado . in 1995 schwinn bought yeti cycles company and later sold it to ski company volant in 1999 . revival edit in 2001 two yeti employees steve hoogendoorn and chris conroy bought the company . 7 8 conroy is currently the president and general manager of yeti cycles . the factory is now located in golden colorado . yeti cycles competed in downhill mountain bike racing with the successful lawwill dh 9 full suspension downhill bike developed by former motorcycle champion mert lawwill . 9 yeti has a patented suspension system that they call zeroloss technology or linear guide technology . the suspension system consists of two gliding pivots . the wheel path follows the direction of the impact so it transfers directly into the mountain bike suspension system and goes into the shock rather than flexing the frame . more recently yeti has patented a new suspension design called switch technology which is basically a dual link design that utilizes an eccentric mechanism that switches direction as the bike moves through its travel . this type of suspension is found on their 2012 2014 era mountain bikes the sb 66 sb 75 and the sb 95 . in 2014 yeti introduced a refinement to the switch technology dubbed switch infinity . this design was developed along with fox racing shox and involves a translating pivot which is said to improve the bike s rearward axle path . 10 this rear suspension design change has been used on recent yeti models including the sb5c sb4 .5 c sb6c and sb5 .5 c. current yeti riders include richie rude mike west and chris heath . 11 12 references edit blevins jason november 12 2001 . riders set out to rescue golden colo. based yeti cycles . . the denver post via highbeam research . pp . e 01 . retrieved may 24 2012 . the purchase of yeti calms industrywide fears that one of the nation s most storied top shelf bike makers was heading toward collapse . subscription required yeti cycles announce big mountain enduro series . boulder weekly . march 9 2012 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