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Santa Cruz Nomad

13. januar 2010

Freshly redesigned, reaping the benefits of next generation VPP technology, the all-new Nomad further messes up the boundaries between trail riding and gravity performance. 160mm rear travel meets 1.5" headtube and ISCG05 chainguide mounts in a lightweight but aggressive aluminum frame. Newly revised shock rates, grease ports in the lower link, carbon fiber upper link, 15mm diameter pivot axles rolling on angular contact bearings are part of the plush, stable, flex free design. So, what is it? A heavy-duty trail bike? The new all-mountain contender? Freeride lite? Yes.

Copy-paste tekst v zgornjih vrsticah se navezuje na najnovejšo generacijo okvirja Santa Cruz Nomad. Zapisan je na originalnem portalu in na kar se da kratek način pove (skoraj) vse v zvezi z odličnim izdelkom.

V daljši obliki spisa, bi dekleta in fantje iz ameriškega podjetja lahko povedali, da je okvir predelan (monocoque cevi so nadomestile modernejše, hidraformirane), pozicije vrtišč so rahlo zamaknjene (da sistem ustvari višjo stopnjo progresivnosti), vagica med okvirjem in blažilcem pa je na najnovejšem Nomadu karbonska. Nomad je opazno shujšal in pridobil resetirano, zdravo, privlačno geometrijo:

• nagib krmilne cevi; 67°,
• nagib podsedežne; 71.5°,
• chain-stay dolžina; 44.2 cm,
• horizontalne dolžine kokpitov; 55.3, 57.9, 60.4 in 63 cm,
• medosne dolžine; 1092, 1117, 1143, ter 1170 mm,
• višina pogonske osi; 35 cm itd.

 

Težko bi bilo pričakovati, da bi odgovorni v hišah Santa Cruz ali Intense ali Lapierre (modeli s sistemom EVO FPS2) izdali sledeče: njihovi sistemi vzmetenja imajo veliko skupnega. Lapierrjeva serija Spicy ima celo podobno geometrijo kot Nomad, vendar gre za drugačno bazo. O detajlih in razlikah pa na Dunajski. Mimogrede, nobene zamere ne bo, če Nomada vzamete s stenske konzole in preskenirate posamezne sestavne dele.

Ocena Nomada na straneh portala Bikemagic presega naš zapis:

..if you like to occupy a riding niche and don't stray from it then you can probably find a more effective specialist tool. But if the smallest pigeonhole you like to be in is "mountain biker" and your riding is a mix of trails, jumps, drops, all day or a snatched half-hour, then we haven't come across a better bike. It's expensive, but not madly so in the context of either how much people are spending on bikes these days or of what it can do. If you consider yourself unlikely ever to need 6.5in of travel then you might want to look elsewhere, but there seems to be little disadvantage to having it. Better to have and not need than to need and not have, as a wise man once said. We love it.