Been there, got the photo!

We wish to thank all the customers who have kindly supplied photos of their Dave Yates bikes for this gallery.

Do you own a Dave Yates bike? Have you been to some interesting, unusual or amusing corner of the universe on it? If so, please share the photographic evidence with us so we can add it to the site. You can email your photos (preferably as JPEGs) by clicking here.

Wayfarers to Rome........

William and Bronwyn Marques cycled from Canterbury to Rome on their Dave Yates Wayfarers in summer 2007. The trip is approx 1,900 km, plus the distance from their home in Hertfordshire to Canterbury!

Diabolo in Denmark........

A Dave Yates Diabolo, built in 1991, restored to its former glory after a re-spray in 2007.

"The frame has a LOT of memories connected to it - I've raced against (and been humiliated by) Henrik Djernis, Michael Rasmussen, and Steve Peat on it. It's the bike I rode in the Dark Peak area (which I miss like hell) until I moved to Denmark. I have tried a lot of bikes in my time and it's been the bike that has stayed in use longest and it's had a lot of kit fitted onto it. I've had the option of some very tasty MTBs during my time with Heino Cykler and my previous employer, Jupiter, and none of the mountain bikes have been able to bear the comparison."

David Bouch

A Wayfarer in Armenia.........

"I'm just back from a months hard riding in Armenia.  Tougher than the Pyrenees or the Alps.  Over 82,000 ft of climbing.

Anyway, I was riding my faithful Wayfarer which you built 4 years or so ago.  What a comfortable ride.  Feels like it has suspension.  The roads were the worst I've ever encountered, and even when you find a repair crew (as in the photo above) all they do is bring out a pneumatic drill, dig up a load of holes and then go away.  They don't fill them up - that''s for next year's budget.

I was riding with Pete Jarvis who appears in both photos.  Good pic of the bike, Rohloff included."

Bruce Logan

Made for singletrack........