Santa Cruz

V10

It was only a matter of time before the weight and strength benefits we were seeing in our other carbon fiber bikes tempted us to apply the material to the V-10, with the same goals: reduce weight, gain strength. In this instance there was an additional goal: put the prototypes under the Santa Cruz Syndicate riders and go win World Cup Downhill races. Halfway through the 2010 season, the bike pictured here is still a prototype Syndicate frame, the frame weighs a pound less than the aluminum frame it will supercede, and the new V-10c had won two out of three World Cups, finished third once, and was leading the World Cup Overall. Only a prototype, already a winner.

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Driver 8

Give us this day our daily... driver. Driver 8 in this case. Named after the much missed former head dog of Santa Cruz, the Driver 8 is a tough beast to categorize. Combining 8 inches of next generation VPP travel with a solidly built chassis that allows 7 inches of up and down seat adjustment - and well thought out details like a super burly pair of long life, low maintenance pivots, a 1.5" headtube, an 83mm bottom bracket with ISCG05 mounts, and a 150mm spacing rear end with a Maxle thru-axle - the Driver 8 is a versatile, tough, fun loving, gravity fed wrecking ball.

Daily duty DH racer? Park bike? Freeride bike? Heavy duty hucker? Backcountry bomber? Yep. All of the above...

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Nomad

Freshly redesigned, reaping the benefits of next generation VPP technology, the all-new Nomad further messes up the boundaries between trail riding and gravity performance. 160mm rear travel meets 1.5" headtube and ISCG05 chainguide mounts in a lightweight but aggressive aluminum frame.

Newly revised shock rates, grease ports in the lower link, carbon fiber upper link, 15mm diameter pivot axles rolling on angular contact bearings are part of the plush, stable, fiex-free design.

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 Nickel

With a long top tube and snappy pedaling manners, it's a climb-happy, nimble bike with sure-footed geometry that begs to go claim some tall peaks in the backcountry. And with five inches of sophisticated APP suspension travel designed to eat rocks and roots and jumps with all the ability of longer travel bikes, it also does a mighty fine job of whipping the descents into shape as well. Does that sound a little schizophrenic? Maybe so.
The Nickel's a perfect bike for those days when you have to flip a coin to decide where you want to.

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• 125mm of rear wheel travel 
• New APP Pivot
• Tapered Headtube

Bullit

Every once in a while, the demands of the terrain and the people who ride that terrain are such that a blunt instrument is the preferred tool for the job.

Something built like a proverbial two wheeled brick shithouse - sure handling, simple, a heavy duty aluminum frame with a massive 20mm pivot axle swinging the rear suspension through 180mm of travel, a choice of 135mm quick release or 150mm thru-axle dropouts, and a 1.5" head tube.

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Blur LT

Our best selling bike, and also one our most durable and dependable rides, the LT received a complete redesign this year. The next generation VPP incorporates revised shock rates, grease ports in the lower links, carbon fiber upper links, 15mm diameter pivot axles and angular contact bearings into a completely new suspension design.

Featuring 140mm rear wheel travel, the aluminum chassis is sweet handling and confidence inspiring. It climbs with ease and efficiency, and descends with authority.

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Blur LT Carbon

Take our beloved all-duty trailbike, the Blur LT, complete with 140mm of plush, sophisticated, no maintenance VPP suspension. Now, make the frame a pound lighter, make it several orders of magnitude stronger and stiffer, make it out of carbon fiber. Don't candy-ass out and make just a carbon front triangle, make the whole bike out of the stuff, and use a proprietary one piece molding process that ensures maximum strength and minimal weight.

The result? The strongest bike we have ever built, bar none. It's a nimble, fast climbing, flex-free, confidence inspiring, trail bombing demon of a bike. Build it up however you want - there are no weight restrictions or fork travel limits to worry about - then ride it hard as you dare. Try to refrain from cackling like a madman in the process.

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Blur XC Carbon

The new Blur XC represents a radical departure for Santa Cruz. Having pushed the concept of lightweight VPP suspension as far as it could go with the old aluminum Blur XC, we turned to carbon fiber to take the next step. It turned out to be a pretty huge step.

Meet the new carbon fiber Blur XC. It features 105mm of next generation VPP travel (including grease ports in the lower links, angular contact bearings, large diameter pivot axles and enhanced shock rates) tailored specifically to address the hard pedaling dynamics of XC racing while maintaining superb bump absorption. And it's made out of carbon fiber.

The result? Our lightest ever bike (a full pound lighter frame weight than the old model), with blazing fast acceleration and incredible climbing performance, built into a chassis that is also one of our stiffest, most flex-resistant frames, period. Those traits, coupled with stable, surefooted geometry, shatter some of the old preconceptions about cross country compromise, and spell the same thing in whatever language they are spelled out:

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Heckler

Over the years since its introduction, the Heckler has undergone a steady evolution and made a lot of friends along the way. Not wanting to alienate any of those friends, we worked long and hard before pulling the trigger on the latest version of everyone's favorite workhorse.

We retained the long-legged, predictable handling, bumped the rear travel up slightly to 150mm, designed the chassis around a 140mm-travel fork (but able to handle 160mm), built it strong with a 15mm diameter pivot axle and gusseted tubing, but kept it light with a 6.4lb frame and shock weight. In human athletic terms, somewhere between marathon runners and wrestlers, you'd find the Heckler. A damn good rugby player. Even got a built-in bottle opener...

Superlight

It was Leonardo Da Vinci who once said "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

While bicycles in general are essentially simple wwwices, those words ring especially true when considering the Superlight. An exercise in minimalism, it offers 100mm of rear wheel travel through a clean single pivot design that has been optimized and refined for more than a decade now.

This suspension, one of the most copied in the world, is housed in an elegant and lightweight aluminum chassis that handles with confidence and snap. specific. The Juliana is available in sizes to fit all kinds of women, serious or not.

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Juliana SL

Take the traits that define our Superlight – lightweight aluminum frame, simple, durable, proven single pivot suspension design, confidence inspiring handling – and shuffie them along the size spectrum a little bit to the left.

Bringing all these characteristics to fruition in sizes with more fit options and standover clearance is the essence of the Juliana. We're not going to try and slap pink paint and fioral patterns on a kids bike and call it women's

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Chameleon

It can't change color, and it's made out of metal, but the name is still appropriate.

With a stiff and sharp handling aluminum frame designed around the ability to run any length fork from 100 to 160mm, an eccentric bottom bracket allowing the option of geared or singlespeed use, enough material to stick some hard landings but still light enough to climb like it means business, the Chameleon is the kind of bike that can be built to be at home in whatever surrounding you might have in mind.

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Jackal

Freshly redesigned after two seasons of input by Syndicate riders Jamie Goldman and Kirt Voreis. There aren't any fancy suspension links to talk about, and notions like ride comfort and bump compliance don't apply.

It's all about short, stiff chain and seat stays, the right feel when transitioning from ground to air and back, a top tube that stays out of the way when throwing legs over it, and a frame that's strong enough to stick every landing and handle the times the landing goes wrong.

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Stigmata

Introduced quietly last year, our made in the USA cyclocross frame found itself being thrown over shoulders from California to Massachusetts, slid across frozen ice in Kansas, and slammed into barriers from coast to coast.

The super lean (1300 grams for a 54cm in powdercoat) Easton EA6X frames sucked it all up without complaint and did their riders proud. Low bottom brackets, great tire clearance, taut handling, and no excess fat from fender and rack mounts make these purpose built race bikes

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All Santa Cruz frames are available in many colourways and shock options. Please contact us to discuss these options and check availability