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 a complaint and did their riders proud. Low bottom brackets, great tire clearance, taut handling, no excess fat from fender and rack mounts make these purpose built race bikes. Go get yourself some cowbell!
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 a complaint and did their riders proud. Low bottom brackets, great tire clearance, taut handling, no excess fat from fender and rack mounts make these purpose built race bikes. Go get yourself some cowbell!
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 to allow the option of geared or singlespeed use, enough material to stick some hard landings but still light enough to climb like it means it, the Chameleon is the kind of bike that can be built to be at home in whatever surrounding you might have in mind. Do you want your lizard to run fast, or jump real high? Your call...
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 q.r or 150mm thru-axle dropouts, and a 1.5" head tube. It's the perfect sledgehammer for demolishing big obstacles.
V - 10
Overall World Cup champion. Overall World Cup team trophy. Junior World Cup overall. Junior World Champion. Silver medal, senior World Championship. 4th place, senior World Championship. A V-10 on every single World Cup podium. To say that the 2008 season was a good one for our flagship downhill bike is a bit of an understatement. Beneath the guiding hands of Santa Cruz Syndicate riders, the V-10 has become the definitive downhill weapon of this era. The VPP suspension has been refined to offer 254mm of seemingly bottomless travel while tracking with precision down the most demanding and technical courses that can be found anywhere in the world. Shock rates and ride characteristics have been honed to precision, creating the ultimate podium-seeking missile.
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...
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, flex free design. So, what is it? A heavy-duty trail bike? The new all-mountain contender? Freeride lite? Yes.
Blur LTc
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.