Seb shredding the gnar on board a carbon v10. Photo Jordan Manley
Whistler, BC. 24th June 2010. I will remember this date for a long time to come, and for two excellent reasons. Firstly, I got my grubby mitts on a Carbon V-10. Secondly, I had the opportunity to meet and work with uber photog dude, Jordan Manley. READ MORE
Wow, what a busy trip in Portugal for the Santa Cruz Syndicate this has been! Landing in Porto, Portugal last week and having 20 pieces of baggage (large baggage at that), all arriving with us started the trip well. With Ricky Bobby and the brand new Peaty Syndicate van waiting curbside for us, we stuffed the van full and hustled down to Lousa to meet up with Cedric Gracia and his new Brigade rig. The mechanics and Santa Cruz engineers, Joe Graney and Josh Kissner went right to work to get the new Santa Cruz Carbon V-10s ready to test. Jon Cancellier from SRAM/RockShox was also there to keep things top notch in his department. READ MORE
I’ve been a bit slow getting this post up as my poor little cell phone couldn’t really cope with all the images (I’m on the road you see). But now I’m sitting in Red Bull’s Auckland offices poaching internet, so here is the real scope on the Santa Cruz carbon V10. I think we can all thank Cedric for the preemptive press release. The big news is it features • 9.5 X 3.0 shock • Adjustable travel and geometry • Collet pivot axle system • Double sealed lower link bearings • Hidden greaseports • 150/12 maxle rear end • 83MM BB shell • 1.5 HT • Fully carbon intergrated ISCG05 tabs that are taco approved • Lifetime crash replacement and a TWO YEAR DESIGN DEFECT/MANUFACTURING GUARANTEE READ MORE
Pink Bike has a 15 minute interview wih Cedric Gracia from Sea Otter. CG fills us in on his new team ‘Racing Brigade’, updates us on his recovery from injury last year, and talks us through his V10 & Nickel 4x bike. Did I hear him say that the new V10 is going to be a different material? Hmmm . . . . finally a carbon V10? READ MORE
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, and yes, this is the official release for the new carbon fibre Santa Cruz Nomad. Do not confuse it with any of the previous, most likely inaccurate, information that has leaked already. There’s a lot of ground to cover here, so we apologise in advance for the length of this email, but bear with us. You can download a detailed PDF here or keep reading for the full press release. READ MORE
But I’m pretty sure that is none other than GT-hating, Tallboy riding, Spoke writing and the quite often naked Sebastian Kemp. This is the latest ad from Santa Cruz. It’s a double page spread in Bike Magazine (I’m sure it will pop up elsewhere). If you don’t believe that it is Seb check the below close-up image. Seb you’ve made it son. READ MORE
Coppermine winners Harriet and Robin, there must be free beer over to the left or something.
The Santa Cruz Coppermine Epic mountain bike race, now in its third year, attracted a large, diverse and competitive field of riders on Saturday 21st February. Riders came from all over to test their skills and fitness against some of New Zealand’s best trails and arguably its toughest mountain bike race. Full results here. READ MORE
Here you were thinking that the Carbon V10s were here. But alas no, however we just received a press release announcing that one of the Syndicate Team’s new partners is Edge Composites. Edge make bullet proof carbon fibre wheelsets, and setting them up on World Cup DH rigs is a brave move from the Syndicate but obviously something they are pretty confident about. The press release also confirms the resigning of Steve Peat, Greg Minnaar and Josh Bryceland for 2010. Full Press Release Below READ MORE
Dain Zafke, AKA Golden Boy AKA the Dark Lord’s son AKA WTB marketing guy, crashed Bike magazine’s big Whistler bike test a few months ago. You may remember that Seb Kemp was part of the Bike test team and consequently fell deeply in love with the Santa Cruz Tallboy (29″ carbon beast). Well anyway it looks like Dain put a little iPhone movie together and Seb pretty much owns it on the Tallboy. I mean he schools all mountain legend Andreas Hestler, Lezyne market guru Dillon Clapp and a bunch of others. All this comes as no surprise to those that have ridden with Seb. WERD.
I�m pretty sure that Santa Cruz was the first mountain bike company to spout the �one bike� line when they originally released their do-it-all Nomad back in 2005. Since its release, the all-mountain, six-inch travel market has blown up and every mountain bike company worth its Taiwanese phrasebook has the words �one bike� somewhere in its marketing literature. READ MORE
