Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes
Santa Cruz Bullit
Blunt Force Trauma Never Sounded So Good
Big, beefy, burly – Santa Cruz Bullit. There are times when delicacy will only get you hurt, or laughed at, and when gravity is calling like some freakish ghost yodel that only you can hear.
Times like those might call for a simple, heavy-duty bike. One with a plentiful 180mm rear travel, a massive 20mm single pivot axle, ISCG05 mounts, a gusseted to hell 1.5" headtube, and the choice of 135 or 150mm dropouts. That’d be the Bullit.
Santa Cruz Butcher
Way up in the Sierras near Downieville, California, is a trail that leads into more than 5,000 feet of descending during a sixteen-mile feast of singletrack.
Along the way, riders encounter frenzied rock gardens, brake searing straights between tight switchbacks, jarring compressions, flowing turns, sphincter puckering transitions into cliffside traverses, and some of the fastest ripping, tree-lined singletrack anywhere in the world.
Superb suspension, strong pedaling legs, a tough bike, and a relaxed grip all count for a lot here. The name of that trail is Butcher Ranch. We named this bike, with six inches of abuse-hungry APP suspension and a frame designed to be shown the meaning of tough love, in it's honor.
Santa Cruz Heckler
All Time High Grin Per Dollar Ratio
Sharing the same surefooted and fun-loving geometry as the Blur LT and LTc, but with a super-bomber single pivot rear suspension offering 150mm travel, the Heckler recipe remains true: a tough aluminum frame, a solid, efficient suspension and some of the best trail manners out there. Mix together, and go shred some trail. Then go do it again. And again. And again...
Santa Cruz Nomad
Carve A Different Line
With longer legs than most trail bikes and a lot less bulk than most freeride bikes, the Nomad sits in a class of it's own. On one hand you've got a light but strong aluminum frame and 160mm of VPP travel. And on the other hand there's an ISCG05 chainguide mount built into the frame and a beefy 1.5" headtube.
It's a big country trail bike that rolls up or down with ease. It's a flyweight freeride bike that dances circles around heavier rigs but is still burly enough to tackle serious terrain. Wherever you want to go, the Nomad is good for it.
Santa Cruz Nomad Carbon
It seems like barely a year and a half ago we totally revamped our beloved gnarl-hound with updated suspension, geometry and a host of details that saw an entirely new Nomad emerging from where the old Nomad had been - lighter, sleeker, snappier and at the same time tougher.
Time flies. It was just a year and a half ago that eight unlucky souls got mangled in the Hellride while claiming first saddle time aboard the new beast. And while the now tried and true aluminum Nomad is still a vital part of our lineup, we decided to splice some carbon fiber into it's DNA and see what happens.