Santa Cruz Bikes

This Is Peaty Episode One

Sit back and enjoy 15mins of Steve Peatness.

Ratboy Coverstar!

Josh Bryceland takes center stage on the cover of Wideopen 18, he also features later in the mag with some pretty amazing airborne styling.

Head on over to Wideopen issue 18 now!

Demo Days this Spring

Come and join us at one of our demo dates this year – run in conjunction with some of our best dealers around the UK. We will have a pretty good smattering of models from every line in the Santa Cruz range: from XC to All Mountain, 29’er to Trail.

This is a real chance to not only ride the bikes you read about, but also chat with us about the technologies involved, get advice on individual set up and check equipment spec. For specific models / size requests and further info on bookings, please contact the dealer listed.

Demo Days for 2012

• 19th May - Biketreks
• 26th/27th May - Skyline Cycles
• 2nd June - Biketreks – Ladies specific
• 9th/10th June – Fort William (display only)
• 23rd/24th June – Mountain Mayhem (display only)
• 30th June – 18 Bikes
• 14th/15th July – Blazing Bikes
• 21st July - Biketreks
• 28th/29th July – Mud Dock
• 4th August – Prestige Cycles
• 29th September - Biketreks
• 17th November - Biketreks

Tallboy LTc features in DIrt 123

The brand new Tallboy LTc features in the new Dirt Mag (issue 123), read what all the fuss is about and enjoy some amazing images captured by Dan Barham.

PIck up a copy of Dirt Magazine 123 from you local mag store or supermarket in the next couple of days.

SPS at BDS 2012 Round 1

Video report from last weekend's season opener in (mostly) sunny Wales.

Steve Peat Syndicate 2012 Team at Combe Sydenham from Duncan Philpott on Vimeo.

No April's Fool, 2 more models added to our line.

"Are You sure you want to launch a new bike on April Fool's Day? You know it's a Sunday, right? Aren't you afraid people will think it's a joke?"

We heard a lot of that in the leadup to unveiling these, our newest bikes. And to be honest, those are some sensible reasons NOT to launch the bike today. But we were waiting, patiently and it would seem eternally, for Roskopp's new van to get restored, and the time when we wanted to let the public know kept on getting pushed back. Finally, we had to cut bait, as they say down on the wharf.

As you can see, Rob's new van/pickup is nowhere near done yet. That kind of delay is to be expected when one trades a couple hundred signed Roskopp Face decks and a used pair of Michael Toschi shoes to the local autobody guy and asks him to perform the ultimate sacrilege of chopping a relatively straight '66 VW Window Van into a pickup. Someone, somewhere, is going to end up disappointed. Good thing they managed to talk him out of putting in that 302 Ford motor with a Pantera transaxle that he was eyeballing. Anyway, we finally convinced the boss that we could launch the bikes before the van was finished, otherwise the damn things might never see the light of day, and he gave us the okay.

We still have no idea when the van might get finished...

Meanwhile, we've got some new bikes that we are very proud to talk about. Please meet the newest members of the Santa Cruz family:

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Video from South Africa

We forgot to upload this video gem, enjoy it, it's a long time until round 2!

Huge win in for Mr. Minn and the Santa Cruz Syndicate at World Cup opener!!

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
March 18, 2012

Greg Minnaar wins the UCI World Cup Downhill season opener aboard his Fox/Shimano equipped carbon V-10 with an exhilarating run that had the hill alive with the roar of thousands of fans including the oneLife crew and the Minnaarmy! Steve Peat came in 15th and Josh Bryceland 21st on this improved, pedaling course in Greg's hometown of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

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Santa Cruz Bicycles - Test Lab

Pinkbike recently dropped in on Santa Cruz's California headquarters for a tour of the grounds, including their prototyping facility and company skatepark - including a look inside their test lab, watch as carbon frames are destroyed in the name of development (and fun)

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Two New Bikes For Spring!

It has become something of a spring tradition at Santa Cruz Bicycles to spring some new bikes on an unsuspecting public. While it might be a bit early in the year, there are blossoms on trees around here and we're optimistic that spring is beginning to be sprung, so what the heck, let's introduce two new big wheel bikes.

HIGHBALL in Aluminium

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