Who Does Yeti Sponsor For Enduro? - Video

 They did, but changed the name to Engel...

 I know I guy who's got the hook up, been trying to sweet talk him into gettin' me one....also holding out.....butt hole

 I am ready for them to make another downhill bike

 Yeti WTF. I want a hydraulic beer hat built into the bike

 @kobld: they could call it "Beer Infinity".
I'd be down.

 Yeti DH - Where the Gwizzard got his start.

 DH is still the ultimate proving ground and as cool as enduro may be for some, to abandon DH for it is a bad move. Yeti, bring back the DH bike and team...respect your roots.

 @b-mack: What do you think the Return on investment is Enduro vs DH

 @RLEnglish: Good question--I wonder the same thing.

 @endlessblockades: and Vorheis, Deaton, Tomac, Giove, Furtado, Llanes, Streb, Rockwell, Rennie, Leov, Blenkisop, Graves...

 @RLEnglish: Exactly why people pull out from DH, lots of money to develop a world class bik and run the team, quite a lot of exposure as it is the most exciting to watch but as DH bike sales make up an absolutely tiny amount of a brands sales volume the return on investment just isnt there and cross-model sales dont really happen.

E.g. not many people will buy a Giat Trance because people are doing well on the Glory etc.

To some companies the added 'prestige' of running a WC dh team is worth it, I couldnt imagine not seeing Santa Cruz and Intense out there now.

 @b-mack:
I'd argue that enduro is the ultimate proving ground, some of the trails are just as gnarly as some top level DH tracks and then you've gotta pedal back up again! Pure mtb.

 @Golden-G: Good ole Marla Streb! She was awesome and cool to talk to at local Norcal DH races. She was a skater at the Federal Banks in Boston before her MTB career. World Champ SS racer too.

 @RLEnglish: I'm pretty sure every year company's are selling more bikes due to exposure on the EWS than DH

 @sam264: Take Mont Saint Anne, I don't care who you are, no one is going down that WC course on a Enduro bike at the speeds that you see WC racers go down it on DH bikes. Yes some Enduro trails are straight up gnarly DH trails, and yes you can go down Mont Saint Anne WC course on a Enduro bike, but they are not even coming close to the speeds a WC racer will pull off on a DH bike and getting use to that kind of speed is something totally outside of Enduro modality, it's just not the same and the bike makes a big difference.

 @dirtyrig:
Whatever you say man. Depends what you're trying to 'prove' I guess.
Try racing a downhill bike in an enduro race.

 @Emu-Jon: But Yeti is probably a really good example. When they had a Dh team everyone lusted after their DH sled but they ended up buying a trail bike of some sort.. I wonder how many sales they get from their enduro team? You will never really know because the numbers don't tell the truth, us as mountain bikers have seen the light and buy trail/light freeride/enduro bikes because we are informed as to what we really need. If Yeti didn't have a Enduro team they would still sell a crap ton of enduro bikes.

 @endlessblockades agreed... kinda funny that name didn't get dropped...

 @Racer951: And F1 sells a bunch of F1 cars? No, it highlights the brand's prestige, technical ability, and social impact - leading to sales in other models.

 @sam264: How many EWS pro's have crossed over to WC DH racing and have done well in any races, if I'm not mistaken the answer is zero? How many DH pro racers have crossed to EWS and done well, I'm pretty sure the answer is quite a few and 3 of them were EWS overall champs. Now if that's not indicative of ultimate proving ground then I'm wrong and apologize.

 @dirtyrig: I think that's unfair given that enduro racing is still in it's infancy, whereas DH is relatively well established and therefore has (had) a higher level of competition, which then migrated over. More indicative of where the pools of talent were at that particular time than the sport itself IMO. But you're entitled to your opinion.

 Santa Cruz is a weird case. I might be biased, but the work and help they do for our local trail systems along with how well they treat LBS's, how open they are about their products, and their warranty far outweighed any other brand when I was looking for a bike to rip. Much more so than the ever-sucessful Syndicate and EWS teams, although that definitely trickles down into our local Enduro bike market. But the soul of Intense has made it appealing for riders far removed from their native SoCal, wherein LA and SD I see a disproportionate amount of Yeti's and Specialized bikes.
Just my $0.02 here. Didn't expect my comment to form a discussion on the microeconomics of the entire industry.

 @sam264: I know how badly you enduro fanboys want your "dh-lite with climbing" to eclipse the prestige of downhill but it's just not gonna happen. Like F1, World Rally, Supercross, or any other elite level wheeled sport, the top is the real proving ground and is where most of the technology (and racers) trickle down from. Enduro has it's place, and for sure it is a little more representantive of "pure mtb" (whatever the hell that is), but whether you want to see it or not, those top tier sports in fact do sell lower level, more realistic rides to the masses. Race on Sunday, sell on Monday. Incidentally, let us not all forget that the very first mountain bikers and racers were downhillers...shuttles to the top of Mt Tam and timed runs gettin' sideways on the way down. Guess that's not "pure" enough.

 @b-mack:
Ooooh struck a nerve there did I?
I'm not trying to take anything away from DH as a sport, I don't even follow enduro (I race occasionally). Yes downhill has more heritage. Yes it's more exciting (that's why I watch and follow it), but that's not what we were talking about here.

Anyway. You have your opinion, I have mine. This conversation is circling the drain (and in this case the plughole is somebody getting butthurt because they took something on the internet too personally).
Happy trails

 @boardnz: not too good at reading huh? You just re wrote my last sentence.

 Indeed.

 @panaphonic: haha, sorry. It was bugging me.

 Funny thing, his dad really is known as Old Dog.