[Closed] Oh Lord: New Chameleon AND a alu TRc to follow..

But will the back end be comfortable enough for you?

Sauce?

Oh and wouldn't it just be a TR?

Or a TRa

But was it ever a minicab ???

Stevelol - Member

Sauce?

Chameleon was in WMB a while back.

Now that I like... a lot. Any idea how the swinger dropout thing works?

Nice photos and a video over at [url= http://www.chopmtb.com/2012/11/05/steve-peat-and-josh-bryceland-give-the-2013-santa-cruz-chameleon-a-damn-good-thrashing/ ]Chop mtb[/url]. Price tag still very Santa Cruz 😕

A Blur TRa is just what I've hoping for after riding the TRc a while back and loving it, £2.7k is way to much for a frame though! Where's the info about it?

I wonder how much a TRa would be???

hora - Member
I wonder how much a TRa would be???

*Sits patiently waiting for late 2013*

TRa... meh. Did I mention I like the look of the new Chamy though? Wonder if they'll ever do a carbon one of those?

Notice they've also quietly dropped their single pivot bikes. I thought they'd been generally well received, at least by the media.

I might get a bit excited about a carbon Cham, but the new one is the least right looking one I think. I'll probably end up with one though when/if mine breaks. There's nothing else comparable on the market

Carbon Cham? Thing is- by the time it got through Jungle with their markup it'd be well over 1k wouldn't it?

Yep, which is why they'll never make it ( despite me asking them several times!!) heyho it would've been ace.

Alternative is the carbon 456 which fails the " mustn't be ugly" test

Notice they've also quietly dropped their single pivot bikes. I thought they'd been generally well received, at least by the media.

You mean the APP Butcher and Nickel? The Heckler and Superlight are still there...

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Definitely in 17" (too small for you) frame size!!!

I really fancy another Chameleon. But this time, can we cut to the chase, take as read the bit where you build it up, ride it once, then strip it down again and put it on the classifieds.

This time can you have it delivered straight to my house instead please? 😀

It looks properly slack. Apparently the tubes are thinner too so that might make it more compliant. 😀

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binners you need to [i]ride[/i] it though

Seeing as you cancelled the Pootle last weekend....this is what you could have done last Saturday with us:

You sure its an Alu TrC & not an LT3 Mule?

The pictures floating around from the TP show it with a big Fox 36, which is way outside the parameters the TR was designed for.

Plus they have been spunking out LT2's everywhere clearing old stock...

Looks quite specialized rockhopper? Nowhere near as chunky looking as the old ones.

Wheres the pics of the TRa / LT3 ?

How much are those new Chameleons going to be ?

It is the TR Alu. Check out the Santa cruz USA site. All the info fr both bikes.

Pics of the TR(not carbon) or it didn't happen and my credit card is safe

hora, can see the beast on the vid any clues for the rest looks good.

Scruff £499 I think. Expensive for a reasonably conventional ali HT.

I Ache never had an issue with the stiffness ( bit of a myth IMO) and I use a I fly saddle.

Can't find any pics/info of it on the SC USA site?

This was what I saw on the TP:

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Looks more like an LT that

Looks too slack/low to be a LT?

Sprock' That other stuff is on Whinstone Lee Tor/Cut Throat.

cheers will have a look, if that is a tra it seems to have 160 forks on bit like the blood, seems to me to be maybe a new version on the lt which is a bit tall and steep as is. Looks good whatever it is!

The pricelist i have before me says the Chameleon will be £599 in yellow or blue and you can have a custom colour for an extra ton n a half.
Complete bike options are £1599, £1999 and £2699

There are other upgrades available too.

Bargain then 🙄

Nothing is getting any cheaper eh.

The pricelist i have before me says the Chameleon will be £599 in yellow or blue and you can have a custom colour for an extra ton n a half.
Complete bike options are £1599, £1999 and £2699

There are other upgrades available too.

blah blah- TRa?

hora - Member

Looks too slack/low to be a LT?

Allegedly SC are coming out with a new bike reasonably soon that will address this issue. That picture looks very LT like so perhaps its a mule for the new LT3. Presumably an LT3 would be released as both alu and carbon versions. Timing would be about right as the LT2 is now 5 years old

Thats got to be an LT3 shirley, shock (and forks) look too long to be a TRa.

£599?
I'm out.

I think I'm going to become a SC whore again.

Nothing called a TRa in my list - although i could be missing something as i have not researched the range yet.

Sneaky Leaky 😉

Yes, 599 on the santacruz UK website too. Are there any more expensive ALU or steel hardtail frames from a major brand that are more expensive than this? Still it's not a huge markup and it would be on my short list when the time comes.

Imagine a carbon chamy would be similarly priced to the carbon highball at about 1600 quid 😯 Quite glad they don't do one!

hora - Member

I think I'm going to become a SC whore again.

You've been doing it on a bi-weekly basis for at least 6 years

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It wont be called the TRa. The LT is the LT or the LTc not the LTa.

You've been doing it on a bi-weekly basis for at least 6 years

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At least it'd get ridden 😉

Ah the bike I have been waiting for. Any more details on when the TR/TRA will make an appearance?

Hang on a minute... are you stating that your bikes get ridden more than mine? During their 3 days of ownership? Because I cancelled my trip down to the Pootle last weekend?

Is this some kind of situationist, web-based, performance art installation you've been working on? 😆

Binners...never argue with an idiot...

Hes not arguing with you though, is he. You know when friends are discussing something in the pub and a stranger overhears and barges in presenting their opinion? Thats you flange, kindly leave the thread to constructive discussion. Bye bye.

So there is no confirmed alu TR, there isn't any info on the SC US site, and that bike is an unknown proto.

Ace hearsay thread! 😀

Stevelol - Member
So there is no confirmed alu TR, there isn't any info on the SC US site, and that bike is an unknown proto.
Ace hearsay thread!

Hes not arguing with you though, is he.

Ha - see, I see what you did there. And surprisingly on topic, well done you!

hora - that videos pretty good, where is it though? looks like the beast first, but then i dont recognise owt else after that? any links 😉

I'm not allowed. 'someones' kicked off saying even though the Bogtrotters regularly feature it on their rides/document it/put it on their website with a GPS map I'm not to mention it once..

🙁 hora

is it around the same sort of area though? im only intruiged, as it looks pretty sweet, i would probably only go on my tod anyways!

Have you been riding on footpaths again? You're a very very naughty boy!

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I've got the cheeky trail Police telling me I can't re-advertise a Bogtrotter well worn path.

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ill take a look on bogtrotters then, whats the route/day out called though?

we have one of the new Chameleons landing with us thurs/fri this week - watch this space for extra photos....

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That would go very nicely with my HD...