Completely Redesigned
The new Nomad sends the all mountain category into Andean Mountain sized territory. Now in its third generation, the full carbon frame has been completely redesigned to stay ahead of enduro racing’s ever-more DH trajectory.
Aggressive Geometry
An aggressive 65 degree head angle delivers V10 handling at Syndicate speeds. We've also added a V10-style upper link, increased VPP travel to 165mm and improved small bump performance.
Recessed Link
The one-by only design also permits a neatly recessed and protected lower link, resulting in some seriously compact chain stays.
Longer Reach
With an inch more reach in the cockpit, the Nomad's got the ideal geometry for tearing down the side of Chilean stratovolcanoes!
Internal Routing
And as ever with carbon technology, it's what's on the inside that counts. The internal cable routing is so trick it's a shame it never sees the light of day. Thin carbon fibre tubes molded into the frame from entry to exit, ensuring completely integrated hassle-free routing every time.
VPP Efficiency
The ground-up redesign incorporates a steeper seat tube angle, creating an efficient pedaling position for total liaison stage domination.
Read more about VPP here.Custom Colours
Available now in stealth black or aqua/magenta colors with coordinated fork and wheel decals, the new Nomad shows just how rad things can get with some single-ring-minded focus.
Key Facts
• 165mm VPP suspension
• New compact lower link and V10-style upper link
• Full carbon frame and swingarm in S, M, L & XL sizes
• Single-chain-ring-only design
• Internal routing
• 27.5” wheels, with new carbon ENVE M70 option
• RockShox Pike RCT3 Solo Air160mm fork
• RockShox Monarch Plus Debonair or Vivid Air RC2 shock
• USA pricing from $6,599 complete for SRAM X01 build, inc. Reverb Stealth
• $2,999 frame only
• Frame weight from 6.2 lbs (2.8 kg)
• Complete from 27.1 lbs (12.3kg)
Availability
• Shipping April 1, 2014
www.santacruzbicycles.com
LONG LIVE THE NOMAD-C!
That sissy pants, blue bike with pink stickers ISN'T an April fools joke?!
Man, I can't figure which way is up today.
Maybe the joke is that it is isn't supposed to be a joke, so you're double tricked?
Nice job, SC!
Curious, though...more rear travel than front?
Some of you have been so immasculated over the last 30 years, surprised if you even have any testosterone left in your bodies.
If I see some "dude "on the trail with this hipster, vulva bike...We are f***in arm wrestling right there in the dirt!
Be ready, PUNK!
On the other hand, how could you pass up that black paint job?
Back in time I would have ride it any time at Mamoth Kamikaze with a pair of Razorblades.
@ bmar
Effectively, you can pinbike on Pinkbike...
I actually think of it a bit differently. You better shred on a LOUD colored bike, because you are naturally drawing a lot of attention to yourself. If you suck with bright/loud colors on... people are going to notice. If you can shred, choice of colors be damned. Have you seen the modern kits some people wear? compared to most of that crap, this color way looks SICK!
This reminds me of the old SC vp-free, i was gutted when they stopped production, i had one of those and it was awesome, anyone remember Randy Spangler shredding a vp-free on drop in Tv? (I am so old now).
www.pinkbike.com/photo/1461453
I still ride the VP-Free haha check it out on my page! I love it. And yeah i agree these Nomad's look are similar in look, just without the seatpost mast. I do wish they went bigger on the rear travel, I'm hoping my VP-Free (with next upgrade of angle-set, 1x offset bushing, already short-shocked) will fill that role with a fairly close geo and a 64.5HA, 14.3"BB, but with 195mm (7.75") of rear travel.
I do wonder, does the rear of this nomad still use 8.5x2.5? This is all theory crafting, but I'm thinking one could put on a 8.75x2.75 shock, then 1 offset bushing (shock mount) to help the top linkage to clear the seattube or to push up the shock a bit in case of clearance issue/even things out. HA at this point is 65.5deg, then an angleset of 1.0deg to put it down by a 64.5deg. BB would rise a miniscule amount because of larger shock (+ offset reduces the BB height). So 185mm rear travel, 170-180 fork up front, 64.5HA...sounds nice. Imo, you either go mini-DH rear travel, or go home..
Why don't you start doing some full-on DH with 160mm, etc. What are you going to do, Up the PSI past the point of stupidity? Up the HSC/LSC and sacrifice ride quality? A guy can do a DH with 100mm of travel, pro or not, and say he/she did it. That's not the point. The point is someone wants to have a specific machine that is more tailored to mini-dh for example. With such an aggressive geo, it seems pretty odd to go halfway on geo then lower rear travel. I only stated that what if you wanted to up the travel to 180mm.
This new bike looks great overall though. Basically what I've been looking for for the past 18 years. A light carbon bike with medium travel and slack angles to be used for majority DH riding. 65 deg HA is going to climb like shit but who cares as long as it rips on the downs?
I will ask my friends to lend me 2010 Fox 36Rc2 Float and 2014 Pike. 36 RC2 had a bladder pressurizing the system just like Pike has now, I am suspecting that apart from 250g difference, not much changed... I am after making a series of articles about true innovation, true performance in bike products, I do not buy the argument that everything new is better. Just as you say, AIR is not exactly the remedy, but it is the most often played ball. However I think it is about a package: spring, damper, chassis. I have Sektor with coil spring, and it is pure crap, it dives more than Fox Float RLC.
The nomad is gonna be a great bike and I'm sure Santa Cruz will sell a shed load, but I think that unless you live in an alpine style place or do a lot of uplift days it's a lot of bike for most of the time.
On a recent trip to finale I never really felt 'under biked' on the bronson, which is in essence a 150mm (abeit with 160 pikes) trail bike. Crazy what you can do on modern trail bikes with decent angles/ suspension and bigger wheels. It's a good time to be a mountain biker
Honestly though looking at the price and the fact that SC does their stuff in Asia, If I were after such bike, I'd buy YT Capra.
And VPP's leverage ratio over the years have been evened out, for the most part. I ride a VPP1 bike where the ratio jumps/insanely high, and even then I have relatively sorted it out.
I still wish the Nomad stayed 'more' true to the VP-Free it has evolved from. Money/Sales aside, it would be awesome if they some how incorporated dual-traveling setting or a Nomad with 180mm travel. I'm still with a VP-Free and it has served that niche of Mini-DH (with updated geo of course). But it's all imagination at this point.
I like variety for sure in drivetrains, but my rides usually entail pinning it for sections on the road followed by long uphill dirt climbs. I don't see how I could get by without my big ring and granny - she's just swell.
Deepcovedave - I too ride asphalt to the woods, sometimes for 45 minutes. My single ring theory works on a basis that if someone can spin out a 36t up front on 11t rear on the flat asphalt on a bike with 2.3 knobby tyres, he is then strong enough to climb that 36t with 36t back to the top of 3000ft mountain. The only excuse is living in terrain with sharp rocks where the use heavy tyres with double casings is necessary. If someone needs double casings in other situation that means that he is so fast on donwhills that he rips the single casings off the rim, that means he is most probably strong enough to climb on 1:1 ratio for hours. I personaly struggle to spin out a 34t to 11t on asphalt, I tend to stroll on 13t cog in the rear. Yet I climbed fire roads my Nomad on 34-36t on 2000ft hills... It requires a bit of strength training with a good program. Mine takes 1h 3 times a week and I am a bomb comparing to what I was before I started.
I am not trying to intimidate you or talk training crap to you or anyone else. I am just reporting my own experience, and I respect that other people have different lives and muscle structure.
In other words, you've proven their point. You know exactly what you want and need in a bike, and it won't be simultaneously the Bronson and Nomad because you've already chosen in your mind which bike is for you based on their very specific, but - in your words - not so different geometry numbers
If you only had the space/money for one bike however... it sure is purdy....
i couldnt ride my 170mm bike w/o it..
Personally I would rock this Nomad for Enduro racing (as it's timed parts are mainly DH) and gnar, and then use the 5010 for everything else.
Perhaps this is a Freeride Enduro bike ? another new category of MTB ?
Usually though we don't need 6 or 7 inches of suspension, 4 or 5 is usually enough and that is what I meant to make more clear, sorry.
No matter how much I want to think I need a new Nomad.... I know I don't here. Bugger!
Seriously though, it is a shame that 6 or 7 inch suspension bikes just can't be really pushed to the boundaries of what they are capable of over here very often mainly because there is a reluctance on the part of legit trail builders to build in features that would push the bikes capabilities due to the worry over litigation: the biggest bike park in Japan, Fujimi Panorama, had it's land owners get them remove features for that reason. Oh, and the fact I don't have a pair big enough to need all that travel!
As for the color -- neon and pastel is how we rolled back in the day, riding our GTs, Haros and Hutches.
In all seriousness though, I am really impressed by you Santa Cruz. Aggressive geometry, designed with a 1x/650b setup in mind, light-yet-burly frame, good component setup (a bit higher end than I would go, X01, Zee brakes, & I9's for me please, but that is what the frameset option is for ), and last but certainly not least...as a mechanic, THANK YOU for fully guided internal routing. While mountain bikes are typically a lot easier to route internally, I hope that other bike designers see your example and incorporate it as well. Routing a triathlon bike would be far easier if everyone just did this, no more fishing for cables inside of small carbon tubes and no more risk of accidentally winding the cables during routing. Sick bike guys, I hope to get on one sometime soon.
s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/original_131113_59uT4bUzxyZazanl4m9GDZGdA.jpg
or this:
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This one for days when I hate the World,
Tallboy LTC for riding around with friends.
Pinarello Dogma for the days when I feel gayish.
And Bugatti Veyron (with bike carrier, of course) for transportation.
Yep, that would do.
I am not sure I like this 1 only trend. It works fine on my trail bike, but on a heavy rig... climbs are long and steep around here..
p.vitalmtb.com/photos/forums/2014/03/29/1229/s1200_enveDHrim.jpg
www.pinkbike.com/news/Santa-Cruz-Bronson-650B-Enduro-Racer-in-Carbon-and-Aluminum.html
• Only 165mm VPP suspension
• Only Full carbon frame and swingarm
• Single-chain-ring-only design
• Internal routing
• 27.5” wheels
• USA pricing from $6,599 complete
• $2,999 frame only
I'm not a fan of specialized, but at least they are not misleading people into thinking that this wheel size is midway between 26 and 29.
Anyway, sweet bike. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
www.complex.com/sports/2012/10/the-25-best-skateboard-decks-from-the-80s/santa-cruz-rob-roskopp
By the way, another video/edit shot in Chile. Chile is clearly becoming the place to go for Mountain Biking, especially in the northern winter months. With the Enduro World Series having their season opener there, it is sure to become a great MTB destination.
Threaded bb, light, awesome to pedal.
Why would anyone want any other model of aggressive trail bike, if money isn't a big priority?
lawlz...
At 6'2", a 24tt/17"reach is tight, then the xl is lil long, especially wb @1200+.
Modern large should be 24.5ish/17.5-18, w/40-55 STEM.
Then I'll keep my Pike on my Stump EVO 29 as my trail bike?
www.pinkbike.com/photo/10776598
but 3000$ without shox !?
Apart from this, yes you are correct it's a direct rip off because of the frame protection (which my 2011 Blur LTc also has). Very perceptive.
Enduro needs bigger forks. Preferably with a proper 20mm axle.