What kind of bike is the Santa Cruz Nomad?

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The Santa Cruz Nomad is a well-built, high-quality carbon mountain bike with 27.5” wheels and 170mm of travel in both the front and rear. The bike accelerates through corners and excels at descents. Testers were pleased to find the bike available with either a coil or air shock.

Is a Santa Cruz Nomad an Enduro bike?

Santa Cruz Nomad is an enduro bike. It has 170mm of travel coupled with a long and slack geometry. The Nomad has a 1222mm wheelbase in the medium frame size and a 64° head tube angle in the High setting, which can be reduced to 63.7° in the Low setting.

How much does the Santa Cruz Nomad weight?

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What is the difference between Santa Cruz C and CC?

A quick word on the two types of carbon that Santa Cruz make mountain bikes from. Carbon C is the cheaper. Carbon CC is the more expensive one. Basically Carbon CC weighs a bit less (there’s not much in it admittedly) but is just as strong and stiff as Carbon C.

Where are Santa Cruz bikes made?

The frames Santa Cruz uses for their bikes are made in China and Taiwan. However, all bikes are assembled in Santa Cruz, California, USA and shipped out from the same location.

How much does the Santa Cruz Nomad cost?

The new Santa Cruz Nomad is available in several builds with prices ranging from € 4,799-8,999.

Why is Santa Cruz expensive?

Santa Cruz bikes are more expensive than other similar bicycles because Santa Cruz does not produce a massive number of bikes like Giant or Trek. They also spec their bikes only with quality RockShox and FOX suspension, as well as with mid-range and high-end SRAM and Shimano groupsets.

Are Santa Cruz bikes made in China?

Their bikes are suited to a wide range of mountain biking disciplines. Frame fabrication occurs in China and Taiwan, but all bicycles are assembled in Santa Cruz, built to customer specifications just before being shipped out.

Why is Santa Cruz bikes so expensive?

What makes a Santa Cruz Nomad a good bike?

The details are completed by a neat mud flap to protect the rear shock, plus tidy cable routing within the frame and swingarm, and rubberized DT protectors to shrug off strikes. So van-lifers unite. The Nomad is the kind of bike you need never worry about all summer long.

Is the Nomad C a good mountain bike?

The Nomad C appears to have been a carefully considered bike that capitalizes on the latest technologies within the mountain biking world and adds some nice touches such as internal cable routing through continuous carbon tubes within the frame.

How big are the rims on Santa Cruz Bicycles?

Available in sizes 29 to 700c and rim widths between 22mm and 37mm, Reserves are ready to roll on anything from endless gravel to face-melting downhills. Hit one of the links below to find a local retailer near you or to see our entire range of bikes. All the latest straight from our Instagram. Loading…

Is the headtube reinforced on the Santa Cruz Nomad?

No, the headtube of the Nomad is engineered to withstand the additional forces of a long travel fork, however the sides of the toptube and downtube are not reinforced to withstand the kinds of side impacts that might occur in a crash when the upper stanchions of a dual crown fork are thumped into the frame.