Santa Cruz V-10 Carbon, $2,999 (carbon frame)

Santa Cruz managed to get its 10-inch travel DH bike down to 9.1 pounds (with shock) by replacing bulky aluminum with carbon in the front triangle. The lower weight has a huge difference when riding, making the bike reactive and stable on drops, corners and anywhere else on the trail. The bike is race-proven: Steve Peat, Greg Minnaar and the rest of the Syndicate team have ridden the bike since the start of the 2010 season with multiple wins to show for it.(www.bicycling.com)

Santa Cruz Jackal

You may not be another Kirt Voreis or Jamie Goldman yet, but when you're about to be pitched sideways off the lip at the jump park, you're still going to need the same confidence knowing your bike is not going to be in two pieces when you land. The Jackal features an awesomely-inspired, hydroformed top tube, choice of horizontal or vertical dropouts, and the ability to accept a fork with 160 mm of travel. Go ahead, dig as deep as you can into your bag of big air tricks. The Jackal won't mind a bit.

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Santa Cruz Chameleon

If one were to compare our quiver of bikes to a Swiss Army knife, then the Chameleon would most certainly be the standard blade. Both are always reliable in any situation. Whether you want to get cross-eyed on a day-long geared or single speed ride, throw on some slicks for an urban assault mission, or go down to the dirt jumps and perfect your bar spin and Superman seat grabs, the ultra simple, and flawlessly no frills Chameleon can do it all.

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Santa Cruz Juliana

Something you may remember from your middle school health class is that boys and girls have different bodies. Yeah, no duh, but what that translates into in the bike world is they have vastly different needs in their bikes. To answer the call, we've rebuilt the classic Juliana to suit the desires of the legendary Juliana Furtado. Like the Superlight, it has improved and unsurpassed lateral stiffness, and will turn the phrase 'rides like a girl' into a terrifyingly truthful compliment.

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Santa Cruz Superlight

The Superlight has been the consistently reliable staple of our family of bikes, but now we've redesigned this little beast. It still has the 100 mm of rear wheel travel, but now it proudly shines with even more lateral stiffness. As one Luddite in our employ stated recently: "this is the first suspension bike I've ever ridden that didn't make me immediately long for my hardtail." Truer words have never been spoken. The long and the short of it is, the new Superlight rules.

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Santa Cruz Heckler

Over the years since its introduction, the Heckler has undergone a steady evolution and made a lot of friends along the way. Not wanting to alienate any of those friends, we thought long and hard before pulling the trigger on the latest version of everyone’s favorite workhorse. We retained the long-legged, mellow handling geometry, bumped the rear travel up slightly to 150mm, designed the chassis around a 140mm-travel fork, built it strong with a 15mm diameter pivot axle and gusseted tubing, but kept it light with a 6.4lb frame and shock weight. If bikes could be thought of in human athletic terms, some could be compared to marathon runners, and some could be thought of more like wrestlers. Somewhere in the middle, you’d find the Heckler. A damn good rugby player. Even got a built-in bottle opener...

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Santa Cruz Bullit

A two-year absence can imply many things - a round-the-world sailing trip, half a college education somewhere far from home, going to jail for tax evasion – two years can change you, man...
In the case of the Bullit, it was like a two-year stint in charm school. The bike is still big and brawny, built for tall drops and hard landings – with 178mm of rear wheel travel, a heavy duty 6069 aluminum frame with a stout 20mm pivot axle, a choice of either 135mm q.r or 150mm thru-axle dropouts, 203mm brake rotor clearance, an optional floating brake kit and a 1.5” steerer tube – but she’s come back with some very refined trail manners and a curvy set of new tubes. Charm school? Sure, but one that teaches judo too.

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Santa Cruz V-10

Here is a bike just for the ilk of cyclist who desires the white-knuckled mayhem only your favorite elevator shaft of a descent could serve up. 254 mm of active rear wheel travel set with 100 mm of sag will provide you with the pure confidence to obliterate any obstacle that the trail throws your way, yet thanks to a spry 6061 aluminum frame, it's agile enough to be thrown around beneath you all the way to the podium. Oh yeah, while you're up there, don't forget to spray some champagne on Steve Peat. We hear he likes that.

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Santa Cruz VP-Free

The question is simple: are you tough enough for the Free? Possessing an incredible 215mm of active rear travel, 150 mm thru-axle rear wheel, 1.5" head tube, ISCG05 chain guide mounts, and completely over-built everything, there's nothing the Free can't handle. If you choose to spend all day going straight down, or throw on a triple and get your climb on, the Free will, without a doubt, set you free. If the 4X is the Charles Bronson of our bikes, then the Free is very definitely the Robocop, only with more travel.

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Santa Cruz Nomad

It's plain and simple folks. Here we've got two bikes for the price of one. On one hand, we've got a peach of a trail bike that will allow full immersion in your masochistic love affair with the climb without any bothersome bobbing or mushy feeling. On the other hand, we've got a rip-roaring, dyed-in-the-wool freeride bike that will devour any rock garden or log-drop like hotdogs at a Coney Island eating competition. Proudly possessing a full 165mm of rear wheel travel, room for a front derailleur, and a QR-ready rear drop out, you won't know if you're Mark Weir climbing, or Mark Weir descending.

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Santa Cruz Nomad

It's plain and simple folks. Here we've got two bikes for the price of one. On one hand, we've got a peach of a trail bike that will allow full immersion in your masochistic love affair with the climb without any bothersome bobbing or mushy feeling. On the other hand, we've got a rip-roaring, dyed-in-the-wool freeride bike that will devour any rock garden or log-drop like hotdogs at a Coney Island eating competition. Proudly possessing a full 165mm of rear wheel travel, room for a front derailleur, and a QR-ready rear drop out, you won't know if you're Mark Weir climbing, or Mark Weir descending.

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Santa Cruz Nomad

It's plain and simple folks. Here we've got two bikes for the price of one. On one hand, we've got a peach of a trail bike that will allow full immersion in your masochistic love affair with the climb without any bothersome bobbing or mushy feeling. On the other hand, we've got a rip-roaring, dyed-in-the-wool freeride bike that will devour any rock garden or log-drop like hotdogs at a Coney Island eating competition. Proudly possessing a full 165mm of rear wheel travel, room for a front derailleur, and a QR-ready rear drop out, you won't know if you're Mark Weir climbing, or Mark Weir descending.

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