There have been rumors flying around the Santa Cruz camp with several spy shots hitting the web, but it is now official…Santa Cruz has 3 new bikes to add to their already impressive lineup.
Santa Cruz Highball
Probably the most anticipated addition to the Santa Cruz lineup is the 2.4 pound full carbon 29er hard tail frame. While this is not Santa Cruz’s first jump into hard tails (see the AM/DJ Chameleon), it is the first lightweight hard tail out of the Santa Cruz lineup geared towards the XC crowd…specifically racers looking for an ultralight, super stiff 29er frame. From what we have heard…this is going to be a HT frame that is aimed specifically at those riders, so racers that are huge Santa Cruz fans should be extremely happy.
Santa Cruz Tallboy AL
Building off of the massive success of the Santa Cruz Tallboy, SC has release an aluminum counterpart to the all carbon frame. For those of you that have been drooling over the carbon frame but didn’t have the $2,400+ to pony up for the carbon version…you will now have a much more affordable (in boutique bike terms) option to get rolling on the Tallboy frame design.
Santa Cruz Blur TRc
The new all carbon Blur TRc is Santa Cruz’s new look at the trail bike. With a frame weight of right at 5 pounds and 5 inches of rear wheel travel (between the XC and LT models), the new Blur TRc looks to mate XC rigs with slacker AM sleds. You get the same carbon layout as the Tallboy and similar VPP suspension setup.
The New Bikes From Santa Cruz
From what we can see, the new rides out of the Santa Cruz camp marks an expansion year for 2011. They are building off of their already stout carbon lineup by adding in two new bikes to the mix and looking to gain off of that popularity with an affordable option of a once carbon only bike. With the new 29er HT, they are really rounding out their entire mountain bike lineup by having a purpose built race rig all the way to a World Cup DH champion with the Santa Cruz V10.
It will be an exciting year for Santa Cruz and we can’t wait to see the bikes in person. You can expect to see these shipping to showroom floors around the beginning of April.