Product Description
Brand |
Santa Cruz Bicycles |
Category |
MOUNTAIN |
Seller |
Backcountry |
With long, slack, and ultra-squishy steeds taking over trails left and right, we think its worth reminding ourselves where it all started. Atop a hard tail, weaving through rooty hand-built trails, and powering up punchy climbs on the only bike we were familiar with. Bikes have come a long way since those 26-inch hardtails with geometry that wasn't far from today's gravel and road bikes, but we'll always have a soft spot for hammering through miles of singletrack with a little less suspension, and a little more careful thought on our line choices, annd with Santa Cruz's third-generation of its cross-country race machine, the Highball Carbon CC Mountain Bike Frame. With a plethora of upgrades, this generation drops weight left and right, while improving the ride quality, making this Highball ready to supercharge your singletrack while you strive for KOM's, and your spot on the podium. Santa Cruz doesn't adhere to a model year format with its frames, so when a new version comes out, we can count on the fact that it took its time to refine the design, offering substantial improvements, rather than just rushing to get one to market. On this latest generation Highball, Santa Cruz shaved off an almost unheard of 200-grams, or nearly half a pound, from the previous version of its top-tier Carbon CC lay-up. If you've taken the time to read this far into a product description about a carbon hardtail frame, we feel safe in placing you firmly into the weight weenie camp. If you're not, our apologies, but if you've come to terms with your condition, we think you'll be just as excited as we are with this frame's weight dropping down to just over two pounds. It seems like not too long ago, this was an impressive feat on a road frame. Santa Cruz's engineers achieved this absurdly low weight by starting out with the finest carbon fiber and resins it could get its hands on and worked out an incredible layup schedule of carbon in critical zones, adding increased stiffness and st...
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