Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #201652 in Sports & Outdoors
- Size: Large
- Color: Matte Carbon/Grey
- Brand: Santa Cruz Bicycles
- Model: HIGHBALL-MED-GCRD
- Dimensions: 2.45 pounds
Features
- Frame Material: Suspension Linkage: Pivot Type: Leverage Ratio: Recommended Fork Travel: Rear Travel: Suspension: Rear Shock: Rear Spacing: 135 x 10Headset: Head Tube Diameter: 1.5 - 1.125 inAccessory Cable Stops: ISCG Tabs: Seatpost Diameter: Front Derailleur Mount: 34.9 mmBottom Bracket Width:
- Replaceable Rear Derailleur Hanger: yesCompatible Components: Weight: Frame-Only Weight: Measured Effective Top-Tube Length: Recommended Use: mountain biking, racing, XCManufacturer Warranty:
2012 Santa Cruz Bicycles Highball Carbon - 2012
Product Description
Greyhound, Moscow Mule, and Screwdriver are some names for highball drinks that seem appropriate as metaphors for the Santa Cruz Highball. It's a full-carbon hardtail (the first for Santa Cruz) that answers the call for a lightweight hard-charging race bike with their logo on the downtube. The folks at Santa Cruz have been practicing their craft with carbon fiber for their latest round of full suspension designs, and here they put their knowledge and experience to good measure to create a superlight, race-ready 29er hardtail.The advantages of the bigger wheels are hard to dismiss when your number one priority is speed. The larger diameter hoops have a reduced approach angle in comparison to smaller 26" wheels. This is the key to their fast, smooth rolling capability. This is also why the Santa Cruz hardtail had to be a backwards evolution of their light yet plush Tallboy 29er full suspension bike. The Tallboy was something of a revelation for Santa Cruz and for us here at Competitive Cyclist. The demand has nearly outstripped availability. As a 29er and being one of our best selling mountain bikes ever, it's certain that they've got big wheels dialed. The technology is anything but backwards. Santa Cruz employs all the same molding techniques among their carbon fiber frames to make them superior to alloy. They achieve groundbreaking strength and stiffness through three unique carbon processes: (1) By using a one-piece lay-up for the front triangle, as opposed to assembling joints that require bonding or wrapping, Santa Cruz eliminates excess material and weight. (2) This one-piece process incorporates continuous fibers around the tube junctions, resulting in a structure that can distribute loads and absorb impact energy better. (3) Their net shape lay-up and fiber compaction ensures that Santa Cruz can control the outside shape as well as the inside shape and that the layup is compacted to promote an optimum cloth/resin ratio. The frame looks as good on the inside a
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