Santa Cruz Enduro Mountain Bike
What s the best 2020 enduro bike under 3 500 9 mountain bikes in review.
Santa cruz enduro mountain bike. The test field in this enduro group test. On the right sort of terrain and with a pilot who likes all things trad the blur looks to be a barrel of laughs. Yeti sb150 t series x01 7 199 rating. Born in 2013 the santa cruz bronson shook up the mountain bike market with its in between wheel size known as 650b.
Santa cruz 5010 4 first test a bike with one purpose. The best enduro bike 2020. But don t just think of think as a lycra loving race bike. Testing santa cruz s heckler x01 rsv emtb on an epic exploro of 93km of the best backcountry enduro trails with dickon from santa cruz and a spare battery each on the hottest day of the year so far.
The santa cruz 5010 has always been the bike that turns obstacles into features but now with the fourth generation upon us. The original 29 inch hightower is a very capable and very popular trail bike and wins our editors choice award for the best enduro bike. Sram gx eagle 2021 with 520 gear range on test an even bigger wingspan for the eagle. With 150mm travel on the rear combined with a 170mm fork and a slack 64 3degree head angle this modern 29er enduro bike is an absolute weapon on the descents yet you can still beast everyone on the climbs.
Santa cruz s lightest vpp bike ever. In 1996 the heckler was created as a rude interruption to mountain bike designs of the time. Yeti s bikes have always looked amazing but the new sb150 is different animal. Promising the best qualities of the two the most popular wheel sizes of that.
So capable in fact that santa cruz riders started using it to race in the enduro world series. The name and wheel size connect it to santa cruz s family of hightower. Led by none other than alex mcguinness krunkshox himself the santa cruz sram enduro team is back on the hunt for 2020. The 2019 season saw loads of exciting new and even more capable enduro bikes introduced.
In addition to the specialized s works enduro santa cruz megatower rocky mountain slayer and pole stamina 180 the nukeproof mega 290 carbon caused a lot of excitement even before we reviewed it in our group test.