Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes Review

Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes is a line of mountain bikes offered by Santa Cruz, a bicycle manufacturer. The company is named after Santa Cruz, California, where it is based. Santa Cruz offers several lines of bicycles, including full-suspension, hard-tail, road, street, path, kids and women. Santa Cruz Mountain bike models include Mount Vision, Attack Trail, Quake, Team Titanium, Team CXR, Team Issue, Team Santa Cruz, Indian Fire Trail, Nail Trail, Juniper Trail, Palisades Trail, Hawk Hill, Bear Valley, Bobcat Trail, Pine Mountain, Alpine Trail, Bolinas Ridge, Pioneer Trail, Alcatraz, San Quentin, Terra Linda, Treviso, Ravenna, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Larkspur, Kentfield, Bridgeway, Redwood, Stinson, Lagunitas, Hearts Desire, Bayview, Hidden Canyon, Muir Beach and Tiny Trail. Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes are available from the official website and from other online and offline retailers.

Working with engineer Jon Whyte, Santa Cruz has innovated many new technologies in bike racing, including single-pivot rear suspension, travel and ride adjustable suspension and quad link suspension. Santa Cruz is also known for using steel frames although titanium, aluminum and carbon-fiber frames have risen in popularity. Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes have won awards from Mountain Bike magazine and Mountain Biking magazine.

Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes’ website is slow-loading and difficult-to-navigate, with links scattered all over the homepage and a top menu that expands to cover the screen when you roll over each link. Each model’s webpage has specs, close-up photographs and a description of series. The website offers an entire page just dedicated to explaining the technology behind Santa Cruz Bikes, the geometry of the bikes and the hydro-edge tubesets. Resources for its customers include owner’s manuals, contact information, safety and recalls. It also has videos of its sponsored riders as well as technical support videos. Santa Cruz offers a limited lifetime warranty on its frames. popular searched parts include Avid brakes, Shimano derailleur, Truvativ crankset, Easton seatpost, Truvativ handlebar, Trutativ stem.

Santa Cruz also has a blog with RSS feeds. Replacement components are not available on the official website. There are no customer reviews or testimonials available from its website, but there are many positive customer reviews of Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes are available on other websites. Customer reviews generally agree that Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes are rugged, long-lasting and very light compared with other brands.

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Average Pricing

New Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes range from about $1,499 to $6,299.

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