Tell me about your Santa Cruz Nomads – inc pics

Cruz it was an anodised finish slate grey 😀 Mk1 Nomad awesome..

Found a picture of mine, not with the Vivid Air on it though – I popped my RP23 & ended up getting a refund on it, and whilst I was deciding what to go for I picked up a Monarch for not very much money.

I’ve actually been very impressed with it, doesn’t blow through it’s travel like the RP23 did, yet still feels pretty composed. I know the Mk2 Nomads can have a habit of feeling a little harsh on the chatter bumps – something I have experienced with mine on the RP but less so with the Monarch.

The Vivid Air has really surprised me though. Like everyone, we all want coil performance but without the weight penalty. The Vivid so far, is pretty close.

Get rid of the coil and put a Puhed Monarch on it, that will save 2lb.

You then need to start trimming weight bit by bit. First on days when you want a lighter bike leave the dropper post at home and put a KCNC seatpost on. That will save another 1/2 an lb.

You could save 1/2lb moving to formula R1’s with 180mm rotors. If you moved to a BOS Deville, you would save 200 grams over the Lyrik Solo Air.

Then look at getting a lighter seat, A Tioga Spyder saddle will save you 100 grams for 70 odd quid.

Changing to a 10 speed cassette and going to a 1×10 34/36 setup would give you almost as much range as a 2×10 setup and save you another 200 grams.

Stripping the paint and polishing it will save another 100 grams.

So far at a guess this would save you 1700+ grams.

There’s more you could do, ghetto tubeless….tune bottom bracket….titanium bolts…..bladed spokes…..all with decreasing returns for the price.

Overall you could get it down to 29/30lb if you REALLY wanted to.

hobnob any chance you are selling the monarch – email in profile

looks good apart from the hoses

Love mine!

Goes up, goes down, goes round and round 🙂

used and abused just as it should be.

Doing well if that’s the only negative! 😉

They will be getting trimmed down soon 🙂

Frame Large Nomad

Fox DHX5 coil

Fork Solo air Lyriks – TFTuned with “boxxer mod” to make them more plush, 1.5″ steerer.

Cranks and bash SLX 175mm 22/36 with new Hope bash.

Stem Easton havoc 65mm 1.5″ steerer

Bars Easton Havoc 750mm wide (pewter)

Seatpost Joplin 4 with remote

New style XT brakes with 203 and 180mm floating (shimano) rotors)

XT rear mech 10 speed medium cage

XT cassette and chain 10 speed 11/36 and matching chain – <100 miles old

Wheels Hope pro 2 evos on stans Flow rims

Tyres 60a 2.35 High Roller up front and 60a 2.35 crossmark on the back

Saddle Fizik Tundra

Shifters XT

Grips Superstar standard lock ons

Pedals Nukeproof electrons

Apart from the shock is their anywhere ELSE i can lighten it up a bit (got £100 ish to do this)

You running tubes?

If so, tubes and tyres from that lot. That wheelset has a fair amount of heft to it as well.

The rest becomes the law of diminishing returns.

I might have missed someone mentioning this already: lose the lock-ons and get some foam (or slightly heavier ESI) grips. That’ll be 60-100g right there for as little as a couple of quid.

Otherwise you can get carbon Easton Havoc bars for about £90 from a few German retailers right now. That’d be about 80g down.

the grips are only 95g a pair as it is

tyres are tubeless on the flows

go 1×10 with a lightweight chainguide. Swapping the 36t ring for a 32t would mean you would only lose your current 3 easiest gears. (+ 2 hardest gears)

should be doable for some weight saving and under 100 quid

Not an option really – think i will stick as is and replace the bars when i can get some spare cash together in a month or 2, also may get a Kronolog or reverb in place of the joplin when that dies

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Not sure the exact weight of mine, but probably around 33lbs. Used to have lighter Fox 36 TALAS and DHX Air but weren’t as good as the coils on now.

Have used it a little for Street, DH, Dirt Jumping, but mainly normal trail riding and road riding!

i think i have finished for now – weight lost = 1 3/4b or 810g, outlay = £81! Not bad i reckon.

changes are:

Crud – neoguard – 14g
Tyre st – 60a high roller – 200g
Easton Havoc bars – easton havoc carbon bars – 115g
Charge spoon – fizik tundra – 138g
Grips – normal s/star lock ons – 105g
Nano pedals – nukeproof electrons – 167g
Cane Creek spring – fox spring – 70g

these are all actual weights not catalogue weights btw

Are you not selling the coil shock now

Not sure you never got back to me

Oh go on then, excuse for gratuitous Nomad shot 😀