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OPEN and Yeti team up for Yeti-inspired Turquoise U.P. gravel bike

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It may not seem like it on the surface, but according to OPEN, the company has a lot in common with Yeti Cycles. According to OPEN co-founder Andy Kessler, he and Yeti owner Chris Conroy frequently crossed paths early on in their career and they would both go on to create companies based around “bikes they wanted to ride.”

Even though one company focuses on full suspension mountain bikes and the other on all terrain gravel bikes and super light rigid mountain bikes, both have similar customer-centric business models. When you buy a Yeti, you become part of the Tribe, when you purchase an OPEN, they’re working to develop the same sense of community with events like the Crossfondue.

All of this leads up to the new Yeti-inspired OPEN U.P. painted in Yeti Turquoise. The frame is the same highly acclaimed all carbon gravel bike with aggressive geometry and clearance for 27.5 x 2.1″ tires, just with yet another color option. Priced at $3,200, the Turquoise U.P. sells for the same price as the recently updated U.P., which added flat mount brakes, and a new fork. The new color should be available in time for the holidays, if you’d like to give yourself a new ride.

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Collin S
6 years ago

Does Open actually sell any bikes? I’ve only ever seen one in the flesh in the 4 or so years they’ve been around.

Kevin Capo
Kevin Capo
6 years ago
Reply to  Collin S

I see one almost every ride up in the Marin Headlands. Good looking bikes.

Open up ur wallet
Open up ur wallet
6 years ago
Reply to  Collin S

Maybe because they’re just another made in china frame priced 1/3rd more than anything similar?

Gregory Curl
Gregory Curl
6 years ago
Reply to  Collin S

I saw one on a gravel ride this past weekend. It was a really nice looking bike and would certainly be on my short list for a gravel race bike.

Gordon
Gordon
6 years ago
Reply to  Collin S

I have 6 clients with them and they are loved!

donald lewis
donald lewis
6 years ago
Reply to  Collin S

there were about a dozen at grinduro this year not including mine.

Eric
Eric
6 years ago
Reply to  Collin S

I see a surprising number around New York City.

Nicholas
Nicholas
6 years ago

Iv seen several probably 3 in the last year and they are pretty sick. One of the owners raced his in the dirty Kazan with rave reviews. Iv never personally spent time on one but they look great, I really like some of the build kits they spec and every owner iv talked too loves theirs.

Stu
Stu
6 years ago

Have look on instagram… They sell plenty.

fullum72
6 years ago

My friend has 2.

JBikes
JBikes
6 years ago
Reply to  fullum72

Do you constantly ask him why?

donald lewis
donald lewis
6 years ago
Reply to  JBikes

I have the upper and I am actually thinking about a original up as a back up beater bike I like them that much and considering getting rid of all my road bikes Once you ride one you won’t question way better than my santa cruz stigmata was

JBikes
JBikes
6 years ago
Reply to  donald lewis

I was thinking the friend has two identical bikes (like two up’s)

wayne
6 years ago
Reply to  donald lewis

Howdy, I was gonna go for the Stigmata in a few weeks, can you please elaborate why the Open works better for you? Thanks

donald lewis
donald lewis
6 years ago
Reply to  wayne

the stigmata is a great bike for cyclocross tough and responsive but for gravel and single track it lacks the versatility of a open as it can only handle 700×40 you might be able to push a little bigger tire it depends on rim size but the Open up can handle 700×45 and 650×2.1 that alone make’s it worth it but for me it really comes down to ride quality the Open is compliant as well as stiff light and and super responsive it just feels right and really is a joy to ride for gravel rides and occasional single track it just preforms better while being more comfortable and weighing less with more versatility as it also can double as great road bike as well. Test ride one somewhere to see for yourself.

JBikes
JBikes
6 years ago

I’ll take the Yeti in the background.

Frippolini
Frippolini
6 years ago

I’ll just hang on to my Yeti Arc-X for a Yeti-retro-comeback. 🙂

FFM
FFM
6 years ago

Yeti doesn’t make road bikes. Yeti’s pro riders need road bikes for training. Yeti doesn’t want their riders on a competitor’s road bike. Open doesn’t make MTB so they don’t compete. Voilà!

Jerry o'Day
Jerry o'Day
6 years ago
Reply to  FFM

Maybe but there are plenty of bikes the yeti “pros” could ride for training that are not made by competitors in the Endurbro market. However Yeti does have a history of jumping on bandwagons after they’ve long discredited those new markets. Great examples are 29ers, plus tires and now gravel bikes.

FFM
FFM
6 years ago
Reply to  FFM

I foolishly forgot about the ONE+ which admittedly is XC. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment anyway.

Matt
Matt
6 years ago

I like it.

Old fut
Old fut
6 years ago

Phew. This prices are certainly Yeti like.

Gregory
Gregory
6 years ago

What does this bike do that my current one doesn’t?? Nothing

tv
tv
6 years ago

At this day and age when nobody wants an MTB unless it is eagle/boost/plus/enduro/wide rims/wide bars/etc, it is nigh-on impossible to sell high-end XC machines. Unless you stick some road bars on them and all of a sudden they become AWESOME and everyone wants them! 😀

Colin
Colin
5 years ago

And it just won Iceman

Jim in FL
Jim in FL
3 months ago

Yeti needs to re-release the ARC-X as a gravel bike.

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