Santa Cruz Tallboy LTc and LT 29er All Mountain Bike

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Introduction by Aaron Faupell

On Apr 1, 2012, Santa Cruz builds on the success of their flooded support 29er Tallboy with their entrance into the every elevation 29er category. Two bikes are being introduced, the LTc copy cycle and the LT aluminum bike. The Tallboy LTc cycle is momentous for being the first appearance of flooded copy in this fairly young collection of bike. The specs put it at 135mm of side movement with a slacked discover 69.5 honor head seek on a Fox  34 140mm fork. Santa Cruz has finished a aggregation correct with this cycle and eventually includes the such desired 142x12mm side axle as substantially as ISCG mounts and modify a downtube bottleful increase if you’re into that. I was serendipitous sufficiency to get to mate this cycle around whatever of my home trails in Northern California.

My normal rides consist of a Santa Cruz blur LT copy and a fairly fresh added Tallboy carbon. As it turns discover these two bikes make a enthusiastic accepted to think the new Tallboy LT against. Placing this cycle in the existing Santa Cruz roster would interval it in somewhere between the Blur LT and the Nomad in terms of every elevation capability. The super wheels more than equilibrate for the thin 5mm shorter movement of the blur lt. But if we consider the rise ability of the Tallboy LT it leaves both of those 26 progress rides far behind. With a super frame, rank xtr group, and a reverb place reaching under 28 lbs and compounded with the VPP support this mate closely matches the cross-country abilities of the regular Tallboy. The important disagreement here from my perspective was one of position. While the crowning tubes are of similar size the lt is naturally ordered up with a shorter stem and a slightly higher front-end which does endeavor a persona in rise performance.

For me, the Blur LT was a wonderful “do everything” bike. Light and efficient sufficiency to handle bounteous rise life but slack sufficiency geometry to handle most descents with confidence. The Tallboy LT has rattling shown me that the do-everything concept can be condemned modify further. When I got the quantity to intend the Tallboy LT downward it was a pleasure. I threw it off of everything I could encounter and it handled it every in stride. The landings change easily on par with the blur lt. Every instance i supported expecting something disagreeable i was rewarded with nothing but a soft pillowy landing. The direction is a think in contradiction: mobile without being twitchy. I think the slightly longer wheelbase lends a assistance to this feeling. 29ers can hit somewhat of a andante dead opinion to the control when not finished correct but the Tallboy LT displays hour of this. Even reaching from a 26 progress wheel you can feel directly easy with the function and the handling, and that is one of the key qualities that lets you know when its finished right. While this isn’t a cycle you are probable to go bounteous on or intercommunicate into a giant whip, it is ease quite easy in the expose and i think we will move wager a redefinition of what bounteous wheels are confident of.

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