New Santa Cruz Nomad in Carbon!

According to the official Santa Cruz blog, the cat is officially out of the bag. They’re making a carbon version of their popular Nomad 160mm travel ‘freeride lite’ bike.

Ironically, the news of this much-rumoured bike came about by the earlier than expected printing of the new Decline magazine, in which there’s an official Santa Cruz advert for the new bike. The official launch of hte bike is on April 1st, but in the meantime, if you’ve been so desensitised to modern media that you’re happy with a web-resolution copy of an iPhone photo, then here it is…

Here we go. A sneak preview of a reproduction of a printed advert...

More details will appear here when we get the official launch details. Oh, but don’t think that that’s all you’ve seen from Santa Cruz this year. Make sure you stay tuned to our upcoming Sea Otter coverage in a few weeks.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (15)

sillyoldmansillyoldman March 26, 2010 at 11:41 am

Carbon V-10 coming???

alal March 26, 2010 at 11:44 am

Carbon Nomad is launched April 1st, then two other bikes are launching April 14th. If you have some nouse you can figure much of April 14th out from online (well…).

xc-stevexc-steve March 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm

DARN IT I WANT A CARBON CHAMELEON!

chameleon78chameleon78 March 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm

Please please please BLUR 4X

slowriderslowrider March 26, 2010 at 2:29 pm

ill take all 3!

RepacKRepacK March 26, 2010 at 3:24 pm

Want one…Anybody wanna buy a Blur LT?

RickosRickos March 26, 2010 at 3:35 pm

Blur 4X would be ace, especially with the better looking swoopy frames.

showermanshowerman March 26, 2010 at 4:33 pm

april fools day comes early

nickcnickc March 26, 2010 at 7:23 pm

DARN IT I WANT A CARBON CHAMELEON!

I emailed them, they had no plans to make one, lets see how keen they are after I start kidnapping employees…

allankellyallankelly March 26, 2010 at 8:51 pm

I want one of those neato carbon pencils.
al.

freegan bikefascistfreegan bikefascist March 27, 2010 at 5:30 am

Sing along with me xc-steve and nick

carbon-carbon-carbon-carbon-carbon-Chameleeeooon

you come and go, you come and gooooo

xcstuxcstu March 27, 2010 at 4:29 pm

what no carbon superlight yet ;-(

eurocliveeuroclive March 29, 2010 at 10:36 am

Carbon or Aluminum you can’t go wrong with a Santa Cruz rig. I am overwhelmed at the performance of both my Blur LT and Nomad, a BIG THANK YOU to the guys at Syncros – Jungle and Santa Cruz US for there support this season. Here’s to a successful 2010. All the best guys.
Clive. Syncros-Endurance.

swollenswollen March 29, 2010 at 12:11 pm

Sing along with me xc-steve and nick

carbon-carbon-carbon-carbon-carbon-Chameleeeooon

you come and go, you come and gooooo

Genius

nobby nomadnobby nomad March 30, 2010 at 4:32 pm

So long as they don’t paint it in the same Philadelphia based paint that they used on the new Chameleon, they could be onto a winner.

Chameleon+North Yorkshire Goo= Buggered Paintwork!