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"This the Biggest selection of
Santa Cruz Bikes in New England"

-We hear that line a lot.  We've committed to Santa Cruz Bikes in a big way because they truly are unique and as we put it "THE HOLY GRAIL" of Mountain Bikes. You won't find a better selection of this brand in any store anywhere near us.  We have done our homework for you on parts kits too.  Look at the prices we currently have on our bikes in-stock. Get 'em while they are here at the store!

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NOMADS


Medium Ano Grey Nomad - Kit #3 - RP3!  
$3699.99

HERE IS WHAT SANTA CRUZ SAYS ABOUT THE NOMAD:
If the VP-Free and the Blur LT spent a dirty weekend together in Whistler, chances are that nine months later there'd be a little Nomad running around. Shorter and more nimble than the Free, the Nomad nevertheless sports 165mm of ultra-plush rear travel and the stout frame construction of it's bigger relative. Longer and slacker than the Blur LT, on the other hand, it still features a 135mm spaced, Q.R friendly, rear dropout, a trail-happy wheelbase, multiple chainring readiness, and the steady pedaling, easy climbing demeanor of our VPP suspension. Jekyll? Hyde? That's up to you. Throw it off cliffs or rip long trails in total comfort. Either way, the Nomad is built for the long haul.

HERE IS WHAT SMART CYCLES SAYS:
Read what Santa Cruz Says! No, just kidding...kinda!  We're reminded of a Bullit on VPP steroids...we think that makes sense.  A do-it-all, and do-it-all really-freaking-well kind of bike.  Jekyl and Hyde for sure but we're also reminded a bit of Frankenstein when we look at these Nomads...the long welding beads on the formed top tube sure look like the stitching on the monster we all know and love.  Imagine a NOMAD with a "alternate" set of wheels and fork...you could possibly be set for "life" with that rig!

 


Nomad in Trans Red - Kit #3 with a SLIDER + 
So new we haven't priced it out yet!  CONTACT US!

 


Hydro formed top tube on the Nomad adds 
serious style, rigidity, stability and strength!

 


Nomad in White with Brand New KIT #4. 
$3999.99 


Undisputed Champion - Nomad, Ano Slate, 
Kit #1, Fox Vanilla RC2 160mm - $4399.99 

 


Heather G's Small NOMAD!  Saint and Slider PLUS!  
Liquid Blue...nice new color!

 


Extra Large and Extra ORANGE NOMAD!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Industry Nine Wheels!  

 

 

BLUR LT's TOO!

 


BRAND NEW BLUR LT PACKAGE:  FLOAT RP23, Powdercoated frame

 


BLUR LT - Med -Trans Red - RP3 - Kit #1 - $3999.99
Congrats to Mike L. for riding this machine out of here the other nite, straight to Trumbull...called the next day and called it "amazing, incredible, awesome" in addition to a few other things. 
We held all reviews and comments on the BLUR LT until we saw one in person.  Many of you know this from visiting us.  "We'll let you know what we think when we see and ride one in person", is what we said.  OK, so we've seen and ridden one in person now.  
Our Review:  #@$%%&!-ing AWESOME!  
Doesn't look half-bad either! :)~  

 


Another UNFAIRLY GORGEOUS BLUR LT!  
Ano Org - Kit #1 with some changes for Peter G.  
Good luck in college!


YUP...another BLUR LT.  Ano Black, Kit D1, Fox Talas RLC.
Wipe the drool off your chin and order yours NOW!

 


You need one of these!  
BLUR LT, Apple Green, Kit #1D with XTR DC!

 


BLUR LT - Med - Black, RP3 - $2999.99 - Blem 

 


BLUR LT - Grey - Kit #1 - 27 pounds - $3999.99!

 


BLUR LT - Apple Green - Kit #2, RP3 

 


Ho hum...another boring Ano Orange BLUR LT! Kit #1 w/Minute 2:00, 90-130mm adjustable travel.  Crossmax XL, Juicy 7's, XT 2-pc cranks, lots of other nice stuff!  

 


BLUR LT - Medium - Trans Blue w/ KIT #4 - $3599.99!

 

 

 


BLUR XC with Kit #1  25 pounds!  $3799.99

 


BLUR XC - KIT #1 - BLACK CHROME!  25.5pounds!

 


BLUR XC - KIT #1 - Liquid Blue - 25 pounds!

 

 

2008 HECKLER!  HOLY C**P!

Heckleriffic!
“Sweet and simple” are words that usually have some sort of double meaning when strung together. They damn with faint praise – “Sure is a sweet dog you got there. Shame it’s so dang ugly...” “These directions are so simple, a monkey could understand them...” But in the case of the new Heckler, the third and final member of our single pivot revival, those words are perfect.

All the lovable traits of Hecklers past are retained, with some new tweaks added to make a good thing even better. The stout 6069 aluminum front triangle features advanced gussets reinforcing the headtube without adding boat anchor weight. The shaped downtube leaves enough space for any single crown fork to fit with room to spare. The rear swingarm now pivots on an optimally placed, 15mm diameter axle, rides on lifetime guaranteed bearings and coughs up 5.9-inches of travel. A new replaceable rear derailleur hanger sits independently of the rear dropout, and all the frame components can be disassembled or put back together with a few allen wrenches.

 

It’s an all-season, all-terrain all-rounder. It’s a tough duty trailbike that can be ridden hard and put away wet and always be ready for more. It’s sweet, like alpine singletrack on the first warm day after the snow has melted. It’s simple, like a real sharp ax. Sweet, simple, and proud of it.

 

 

 

  • Burly 15mm main pivot, lifetime bearing guarantee!
  • 5.9” rear travel, 6.4lb frame and shock weight (medium, Fox Float R shock)
  • Clearance for 8” brake rotors
  • Updated geometry designed around 140mm forks, able to take up to 170mm
  • Super clean replaceable derailleur hanger
  • Recessed, threaded shock mounts and tool friendly design
  • Available in choice of five powdercoat, two anodized, and one polished finish

 

2008 HECKLERS

FULL BIKES:  $1999.99+


Ano Silver Heckler with Kit #1 - MMMMMMMMMM Yummy!

 


2008 Heckler - Liquid Blue - Float-R - Kit #1D - $2499.99

 


2008 Heckler - Orange - Float-R - Kit #120 - $2499.99

 


2008 Heckler - Liquid Blue - Float-R - Kit #MarzFR - $3300.00

 


The lines on the new Heckler's are gorgeous. 
100% worth the wait for these new models!

 


2008 Heckler - Float-R - Liquid Blue - Kit #120s - $1999.99

 

 

2008 BULLIT 
It's BACK and It's BADASS!

Resurrection Time!

 


2008 Bullit Ano Bronze - Kit #36

 

The Bullit is Back! Bigger, bolder, badder and better than ever before, the new and freshly evolved Bullit marks another
chapter of Santa Cruz's single pivot revival.

After taking a couple years off, this all-duty workhorse returns to the lineup ready to tackle anything and everything, smoothing out trail rides and sucking up downhill punishment with sweet handling, low maintenance simplicity.

Custom drawn double-butted aluminum tubes form the completely redesigned front triangle, while a new and vastly stiffened swingarm pivots on a massive 20mm axle riding in oversize bearings (oversize bearings that come with a lifetime guarantee, no less).

There's over 7-inches of rear wheel travel, it'll fit 8-inch brake rotors in the back, and the stout 1.5" headtube and gusseted top and down tubes allow you to put whatever the hell kind of fork you want up front.

Combine that with the ability to run either standard, q.r friendly,135mm rear dropouts, or 150mm thru-axle dropouts, as well as an optional floating rear brake kit, and the Bullit is equipped to handle any kind of terrain imaginable.

  • Huge 20mm swingarm pivot

  • Lifetime pivot bearing guarantee

  • 135 q.r OR 150mm thru-axle rear dropouts

  • Optional 150mm axle fully floating rear brake kit

  • 178mm rear wheel travel

  • 1.5" headtube

  • Wrench friendly! All frame parts can be disassembled (and assembled) with four readily available allen wrenches, and the swingarm bearing cups use a Shimano external BB tool.

  • Hard anodized 7075 aluminum hardware

  • Available in either powdercoat or anodized finishes

  • Multpile cable routing options (either full housings or split housings, take your pick)

  • Build it up anywhere between 32 and 44 pounds, climb it like a long travel trail bike, kill it like a freeride bike. It's even built to be bar-spin friendly...

More Info and More Photos:

http://www.santacruzbicycles.com/mail/2007bullit.html

 

 

Chameleon
Like the name implies, a versatile bike. Or a lizard that can change colors. It looks more like a bike than a lizard though. Anyway, the Chameleon is a stiff and tough 7005 aluminum bike. It’s built with a pair of rocket fast 1 inch square chainstays, wishbone seatstay, gusseted top and down tubes, horizontal dropouts, and snappy geometry. We designed the chameleon to be a fast handling, fun to ride bike that should last a long time even under the hands of abusive psychopaths.  Slalom? Why, yes. X-C? Of course. Single speed? Certainly, you sick pervert. The name is Chameleon, after all… Frame weighs 4.1lbs

 


SS Chameleon - Med Black, Fox RLC 130, DT SWISS Wheels
Stacked Little Rocket! $3399.99

 


Santa Cruz Chameleon Medium, Trans blue, With our 


Orange Chameleon Medium $549.99

 

Superlight
When things like resting pulse rates and anaerobic thresholds become important, and the phrase “no holds barred” takes on a special meaning, there’s the Superlight. We took the Heckler design, crafted a new front triangle out of custom butted Alcoa 6061 aluminum tubing, internally relieved the head tube and bottom bracket shell to remove every last hint of excess metal, and created a new, even lighter swingarm. In the process, we ended up with a frame and swingarm which cleaves 1.4 pounds from the weight of the already respectably light Heckler. Then we slapped on a super plush air shock, and gussied the bike up with a sweet chi-chi parts pick. The result? 22.5 pounds, with four inches of rebound and compression adjustable rear wheel travel. Which basically translates into something like a bantamweight boxer with a grossly deformed right arm that can punch through brick walls.

All the good things about the Heckler are still there-the hassle free, low maintenance pivot, the high efficiency design and the superb lateral stiffness inherent to it—just built a little lighter with one thing in mind. Tearing up cross country race courses. If going fast and winning races is something you feel stirring in your blood, the Superlight can get you there faster than you can say “skinny shaved legs atop the podium”.

225lb rider weight limit. Frame weighs 5.3lbs

 


Medium Superlight with KIT#1D and Fox RP3 - $2199.99!

 

 

JULIANA SUPERLIGHT
t's a Superlight, but one that's been tweaked.  Drawing on the Juli Furtado database of experience, the Juliana SL features geometry altered slightly to accomodate a woman's physique.  Slightly lower bottom brackets, shorter top tubes, and relaxed head angles can be found on a range of bikes that offer sizes and suspension options for riders all the way down into pixiedom.  So far, they've been getting rave reviews fom all who have ridden them.  Which, quite frankly, surprise us, since we're just a bunch of hairy knuckled ogres.



Medium Juliana

 

 

BLUR
There have been rumors, whispered around the watercoolers of the workplace, spoken in hushed tones behind the bike shop on Friday nights. Tales of mediocre bike handlers suddenly progressing their skills and floating wheelies through rock gardens on their new bikes. Stories of average folk getting a Blur and cleaning gnarly technical climbs as if they’d had the genes of a Colombian spliced into their DNA. Rumors, maybe. But they have to start somewhere.
6069 aluminum tubing with 4.5 inches of rear wheel travel filtered through our superlative VPP linkage and a Progressive 5th Element air shock. Sealed cartridge bearing pivots. Frame weight at a scant 5.6 pounds, including shock. Butterfly light, but boasting more lateral and torsional rigidty than any of the pretenders out there. Climbs like a monkey, sprints like a fiend, downhills like an anvil. What is it? Extreme XC? The Ultimate Mountain Goat? Freeride-Lite? The Best Trailbike Ever? All of the above?  Blur. Where the boundaries between disciplines get a little fuzzy.

 


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BLUR XC - SMALL - KIT #!  $3799.99!



BLUR Large Ano Citrus - Kit #2 - $3460.00

 


BLUR 4X - Medium - White - Kit #2.5D - $3499.99

 


BLUR - Small, Ano Black - Kit #1 - MEAN MACHINE! $3885!


Ano Steel Blue BLUR with XT Integrated Kit!

 


BLUR - Medium- Trans BLUE - Kit #2 - $2885.00

 


BLUR - Medium - Trans Blue - Kit #2 w/Fox 100x - $3199.99

 


BLUR - ANO BLACK - Large - Kit #3 w/Minute 1:00
$2499.00 

 


2008 V-10
With over ten inches of rear wheel travel, you can make gravity your slave. Our VPP derived V-10 can run a plush four inches of sag - couple that with the incredible damping abilities of FOX's DHX COIL or AIR shock and you’re looking at the only DH bike in the world that feels like it’s rear wheel is glued to the ground. More tractable and plush than anything else out there, the miracle is that it pedals faster than anything else out there too. The V-10’s introduction two years ago was the opening shot in a downhill revolution.

 



Brand New Arrival - Medium V10 Black.  Kit #4, with 24" Arrow Racing Rear Wheel!  Regularly: $4899.00 

 


V10 Medium Trans Blue - Ridden by MATT SHIMIZU at Mt. Snow NCS to the WIN in 19-34 EXPERT Age group DH RACE!  GO MATT GO!  Photos of the champion coming soon! 


V-10 Large, Trans Blue!  Belongs to our pal Dan Ferriera.  Dan would have won his age group at MT Snow too, but he crashed twice...into the two riders who were sent out onto the course before him!  Kinda like Lance lapping Ulrich in the time trial!  

 


Ano Blue  V10 built to spec for a customer!

 


Another mundane Santa Cruz V11 in ano blue...ho hum...Fox 40...and our own KIT #3500!  "Stand back...I'm going FAST!" 

 


Small Ano Blue V10 with our latest DH kit - $5299.99!

 

 

 

V10 WINS 
2006 
NORBA 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

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VP FREE
Sooner or later, we knew we had to do this. Build something long and stout, with not only the ability to be hucked down the ugliest lines and off the lippiest of lips, but also the capability to be pedalled to the high places where that kind of fun really starts. Taking advantage of the VPP research employed on the V-10 and the Blur, we crafted together this Frankenstein freakshow; the VP-Free. Featuring a massive 8.5 inches of rear wheel travel, a gargantuan 150mm spaced, 12mm thru- axle rear wheel with the 5th Element coil shock, designed to run up to a 8” travel fork, yet remaining fully triple chainring capable, the VP-Free is either a stroke of genius or our most schizophrenic product ever. More downhill creed than most full-on DH rigs, but (thanks to the superlative action of our VPP linkage) more able to pedal the long haul uphill than many bikes with half that travel, this is the bike for limitless horizons. Parachute not included.


Ano Grey VP Free - Medium - FoxDHX5 Rear Shock
w/ Kit #1A - In Stock!

 


VPP Free - Trans Red - Marz 888
Alex DH32 Rims, 42mm WIDE!
$4799.00

 

 


VP Free - Medium - Ano Grey - Kit # "SRAM" - Super-T, Arrow Racing 24" Rear Wheel with Hugi FR 150mm Hub! $4349.99

 


Just Arrived 4/15/05 - Med Ano Gray VP Free - DHX 5.0 

 


Our first VP FREE! ANO BLACK!
We would just like to confirm and reinforce that everything we have read about the glories of the VPP Free are as true as they can get...this is a bomb-proof bike, that is VERY ride-able...you don't get the horsepower sapped out of you like on other BIG HIT bikes...the suspension is amazing as is the bike's ability to eat up EVERYTHING in its path!

 

 


NICE RACK!

 

INTENSE BICYCLES
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Fresh Delivery  of  2006 5.5's and an '06 M3!


Intense 6.6 x3!  

 


Intense 6.6 Medium Red Kit #1 and a FOX 36RC2!
WHOA NELLIE!

Attention 29" Freaks!


Spider 29 Coming Soon!  
Medium, Large and XL Only
...contact us for pre-order info!

 


EVP 5.5 - Small - Orange - 4Way Air - "GOLD PACKAGE" Spec!
$4999.99+  A scant 

 


2006 EVP 5.5 with Kit #1.  $4299.99! 
You can't beat the price anywhere!

 


SIX POINT SICK!  2006 6.6 in Satin Black with Kit #1 
and Fox DHX 5.0...quite possibly as hot as it gets!

 


Ho Hum...EVP 5.5 with Kit #5...this dude's fitness level and strength makes us feel sorry for his bike!  SO far...so good!  We really like the strength and quality of Intense stuff.

 


NORBA NCS Mt. Snow DH Champ Matt Shimzu reveals his new 
Intense 5.5 EVP with Kit #3!

 


You won't miss Frank on ORANGE CRUSH 
if you ride at the same place on the same day!


If we can fit 6'7" Ryan on a bike properly, we can do it for anyone! Intense 6.6 in Java - Large - Marz 66RC (Damn this fork is awesome) and a Manitou Swinger 4Way Coil!  


Intense EVP 5.5, Manitou 4way - KIT #1 - Marz Z1FR
Titec Pudge Stem - Ritchey Rizer Bars 31.8 - $3900.00
Medium Baby Blue ($100 Upcharge)


EVP 5.5 - Med - Sparkle Silver - Relaxing on our carpet!

 


M3 Medium Orange w/ FOX DHX 5.0

 

TURNER BIKES!

2007 Turner 5-SPOT in ANO BLUE!