What is the difference between Santa Cruz Tallboy and Hightower?
If your trails are on the mellower side, get the tallboy. It is a bit lighter and is still plenty capable. But if your trails are chunky and have drops to flat, get the hightower. As for riding on the road to the trails, with the same tires it is probably a push.
Does the Santa Cruz Tallboy have a dropper post?
The range will start with the $8,099 Tallboy C S, and end with the $14,999 Tallboy CC XX1 AXS RSV – a model we predict will be very popular with riders who hate vowels. All models get 130mm travel forks, a 2.3in Maxxis Minion DHF/DHR II tyre combo, and RockShox Reverb dropper posts.
How much travel does a Santa Cruz Tallboy have?
Santa Cruz is raising the bar when it comes to the short travel 29” world. The new Tallboy comes with 120mm of rear travel on a new (but borrowed) lower-link VPP suspension system and a 130mm fork to give you the ultimate experience no matter what the trails throw at you.
Is the Santa Cruz Tallboy tubeless?
Yeah, it’s Santa Cruz, it’s set up tubeless already.
How heavy is a Santa Cruz Tallboy?
28.05 lbs
SRAM G3 RSC brakeset. Santa Cruz carbon low riser bars. RockShox Reverb Stealth dropper post. Weight: 28.05 lbs (large, actual)
Is Santa Cruz better than specialized?
Specialized has a wider range of bikes compared to Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz only offers Mountain bikes and gravel bikes. Specialized is also active in road biking and a much bigger company. Both offer high-end mountain bikes and use different geometries and suspension technology.
How much does a Santa Cruz Tallboy cost?
How expensive is Santa Cruz Tallboy? Santa Cruz Tallboy retails for around twenty-seven hundred U.S. dollars as a starting point, placing it solidly in the mid to higher-end category of bikes. That initial price includes a basic aluminum frame, with a variety of features (A frame of this type retails for two thousand dollars).
What size tires can I put on my Santa Cruz Tallboy?
Santa Cruz also lowered the Tallboy’s stand-over height and designed the bike to accept both 29 and 27.5+ tires and wheels. The rear shock link is equipped with a two-position, flip chip that keeps the geometry nearly constant, regardless of which wheelsize you choose.
How does the Tallboy LTC compare to the original Tallboy?
“With an all-new front end including chainguide tabs, armour strips and a screw-through rear axle, the Tallboy LTc is both stiffer and more hungry for chaos than the original.
Is the Tallboy a good climber?
The Tallboy is an efficient climber with average technical abilities, but it’ll all make sense on the way back down. It’s always so much easier to talk about a bike when it does something that deserves a few exclamation points, a dash of hyperbole, or maybe even some italics.