Not that i’ll be getting it but hey ho. Full story on pinkbike

The first comment on the PB article 😆

That’s fugly, must be a GT

That’s fugly, must be a GT

That was my thought when I saw it at first.

Is it just the camera angle or is that quite a large diameter front wheel?

That shock is in a nice mud friendly place. I wonder why they released this ‘spy’ shot. They did the same for the last nomad and solo.

I can’t see Santa Cruz putting the shock there. Too many UK customers.

Thought they may do a long travel 29er for the next Nomad, this looks like a 650b

So, reading those comments, prior to the newmad design, they explored this design before:

Pic taken from 9mins into this vid:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaC_UOsnRRQ[/video]

It looks quite polished to be a prototype to me – carbon and painted? No doubt it’s a Santa Cruz with that rear triangle though. Also has the single sided chain-stay.
Very interesting, surprising if they do totally change the suspension like that – pretty much all the current range they have is based from the Nomad.
Looks like a new Fox shock too?

It could have far better rear suspension driving the shock from the lower link like that (as on the V10), as that turns it from being stuck as a regressive/linear/progressive to allowing a progressive/linear or fully progressive design. But the mud, the mud!!!