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Looks like a nice bike 😀 150mm , 142mm back end stealth dropper nice 😀
will make a good DH enduro
TrCLt?
Is it 650/27.5?
That is pretty much my dream bike, with dream spec.
Apart from the colours, they're gopping. 😕
Shame it'll have a 21' top tube.....on an xl 😕
yeah.. sc bikes always feel way too short.
Also, it make I larf that the biggest rear sprocket is bigger than the rear disk....
Is this a beefed up blur?
Blur L'tweener
Where are the details of this bike? Can't seem to find anything since I imagine it's being announced tomorrow?
20 YEARS IN THE MAKING
Two decades of evolution at Santa Cruz brought us here. An entirely new frame, new wheel size and new perspective on what a 6" travel bike can conquer.
Bronson is not some rehashed 27.5" tribute act to anything else in our range. It stands alone as testament to the years of designing and refining at our old Bronson Street facility.
Locked up for months of secret testing, Bronson breaks straight onto the scene as the Syndicate's race bike for their Enduro World Series campaign.
From Tazmon to Bronson... Santa Cruz continues to lead each new era in mountain bike design.
- 27.5" (650b) wheels
- 142 mm rear axle spacing.
- New molded rubber swingarm and downtube protectors.
- 2 x bottle cage mounts.
- Forged upper link.
- Forged aluminum lower link with angled grease ports: offset for chainguide clearance.
- Collet axle pivots: lock in place without pinch bolts.
- Angular contact bearings: all pivots.
- Direct mount rear derailleur hanger option: standard hanger comes as stock.
- Full carbon dropouts and disk mounts.
- Co-molded aluminum hardware on frame pivots: no bonding.
- Carbon ISCG-05 tabs.
- Routing for Reverb Stealth.
- 73mm threaded BB: creak-free riding and easy installation.
Carbon Frame $ 2699
Powdercoat Frame $ 1925
The best thing about that is that it has a threaded bb shell 🙂
seems like a very long winded way to say 650b nomad to me.
more like 20 mins of development than 20 years.
Must......have.......
Carbon Frame $ 2699
Lets see how much jungle pump that price up by......
It's got.....wait for it.....2x bottle mounts! 😀
That alone was worth the 20 year wait for me.
I like it.
if the bottle mounts are where i think they are they're pretty unusable, 1 seems to be in the middle of a mess of cables and the other below the downtube.
seems like a very long winded way to say 650b nomad to me.
Its based on the Blur LT, which its going to replace. Not even remotely similar to a Nomad.
Me likey. Me no affordy.
So that's what Donny has been riding in the Enduro gravity series then
Aluminium frame.
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Me thinks more Blur Trc Lt longer TT than BlurLt, will be awesome , I'm a funny shape and fit Santa Cruz geometry ...
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I really like it ...
Wipe the drool off the keyboard Mr M 😆
That's nice, but I'm sticking with my baby thanks
Too short in the top tube, as usual.
is the second bottle cage mount underside of the downtube? or am i imagining things?
more like 20 mins of development than 20 years.
As much as I like SC bikes - I despise obvious marketing BS.
It says two decades of EVOLUTION, not development: Two very different things.
is the second bottle cage mount underside of the downtube? or am i imagining things?
Yep, so what? Can't see many people running two bottle cages on this. Fine for light battery or a pump or something.
Hmmm, that's makes things interesting. I was set on a tracer 2 but might have to consider this now.
Jungle will probably just change the $ for a £!
It says two decades of EVOLUTION, not development: Two very different things.
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Surprise surprise a 650b Blur.. not :p It looks very nice and I'm sure they'll sell a bucket load.
Shame they only make bikes with TT's designed for midgets.
I'm sure everyone will tell us because of the wheels its 5.48659% more awesome than a 26" bike & you simply have to have one. If it fitted.
How tall are all the people complaining of the short tt? I'm just over 6ft 5" and ride an xl carbon nomad and find it fine. I run a 65mm stem.
They aren't as long as the likes of a yeti but for what the bike is meant for i think it feels Great.
Donny's been riding a Tallboy LTc not one of these
I despise obvious marketing BS.
yep to that
early April fool?
I despise obvious marketing BS.
Not a 29er fan then?
Forged upper link? Wonder why they've given up on the carbon one?
I like it a lot actually! Would I trade my LTc for it? Maybe if it was stolen or caught fire...
Hob Nob - MemberShame they only make bikes with TT's designed for midgets.
I'm sure everyone will tell us because of the wheels its 5.48659% more awesome than a 26" bike & you simply have to have one. If it fitted
Funny that in all the time you plastered your ever changing blinged out Nomad all over MTBR, you never bleated about how short it was then.
No doubt you'll be slagging off your SB66 once the next new thing comes along...
love the early rip off importer shots...
US prices normally no sales tax, add import & VAT then the price will be close to the UK price.
Look nice. But when are Santa Cruz gonna do internal cable routing? To me every SC bike looks like the inside of a wiring cabinet. Cables all over the place.
love the early rip off importer shots...
US prices normally no sales tax, add import & VAT then the price will be close to the UK price.
FFS! IMPORTERS DO NOT PAY RRP!!!
FFS! IMPORTERS DO NOT PAY RRP!!!
Yes I know that, but when people try and compare RRP in the states to here in a "I could buy it cheaper" way it's worth pointing out the price comes out similar. The Rip Off part is the tax and the fact that the £ is s***.
Anyway having ridden the Nomad C and Blur LT back to back this slightly different wheel size in the middle version (looks more 650 LLT than nomad) doesn't massively appeal.
The LT was a very capable bike which handled the terrain in the lakes as well as the Nomad. If I was still up north then the LT would be in the garage, down here I'm just waiting for the Tr to land (nice price as the Au$ is actually worth something)