If ever there was a gravity riders’ XC bike, the Tallboy is it.   The new 120mm Santa Cruz Tallboy CC 29er Mountain Bike Frame takes a leap further into what shorttravel bikes really are capable of. With kickass lowerlink VPP suspension, a streamlined design, the typical Santa Cruz refinement, and rather radical geometry, the Tallboy is back to being a genre bending folk hero.   Sure, 10mm more travel might only seem like one small step—but coupled with a lower linkdriven VPP suspension design this is one giant leap for the Tallboy.     It’s the kind of bike that makes you sprint while going up, along, over, or down due to the maximum efficiency of the VPP design and responsive, lightweight chassis. But because it shares the same engineering principles as our longest travel bikes, the progressive lower linkmounted shock feels equally at home doing crosscountry as it does in extremecountry. Paired with a 130mm fork the new Tallboy becomes ever more appealing to riders who like to open it up.    And the geometry, that’s a big part of what’s going on…   Established theory suggests shorter travel bikes get ridden slower, therefore require steeper and more conservative geometries. In reality though, when was the last time you ever throttled back on a fun trail because you weren’t on a bigger bike?  Caution to the wind and all that. So we’ve done the same here and mimicked our longer travel geometry to create a bike with a 65.degree headangle, generous front center, and short offset fork. Something rarely seen on a bike of this ilk.   And the radical thinking doesn’t stop there.  The Tallboy’s shortshort 430mm chainstays have +/ 10mm of rear axle adjustment to ensure riders of all sizes and styles feel equally at home. Match that to a relatively low BB (335mm and 37.5mm drop) and you’ve got a combo that’s ready to haul into every pocket turn and launch out the other side.

Santa Cruz Tallboy CC 29er Mountain Bike Frame 2021 Features

• Fork: FOX 34 Performance Elite, Grip2, 130mm, 29″
• Shock:FOX Float Performance Elite DPS
• Rear Derailleur:Shimano XT M8100, 12spd
• Rims: Reserve 27 29″ Carbon