Podcast: Santa Cruz Bronson Review, Clif Bar Cykel Scramble, and MTB Shorts Reviews
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we share Greg’s review of the updated Santa Cruz Bronson, Maureen’s Clif Bar Cykel Scramble race report, and reviews of two paris of MTB shorts.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
| 0:08.3 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. |
| 0:16.3 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today we've got a fun ride report from the |
| 0:25.9 | Cliff Bar Cycle Scramble. Also reviews of a couple of pair of bike shorts. And we're going to start |
| 0:31.8 | things off with Greg's review of the updated Santa Cruz Bronson. Greg Haas is our editor-in-chief, and he actually got a chance to ride the new Santa Cruz Bronson. Greg Hauser, editor-in-chief, and he actually got a chance to |
| 0:39.3 | ride the new Santa Cruz Bronson out at Outer Bike a couple weeks ago. This is his review. |
| 0:44.4 | While Santa Cruz has done away with official model gears in their lineup, they recently |
| 0:47.8 | released some new updates to the Bronson that dramatically changed the way this bike rides. |
| 0:52.4 | Compared to the previous Bronson, the latest |
| 0:54.3 | rendition now sports a one-degree slacker head tube angle, putting the bike now at an even 66 |
| 0:59.5 | degrees. The top tube is in about an inch longer, stretching out the cockpit even more. The chain |
| 1:04.9 | stays are shorter at 17.01 inches on all models. The rear end of the bike is boosts 148 spaced and the frame features |
| 1:12.9 | internal cable routing. Essentially the Bronson has gone more nomad. In addition to being longer and |
| 1:18.6 | slacker, the Bronson also now uses the same suspension linkage as the nomad. However, it still |
| 1:24.1 | maintains 150 millimeters of suspension travel front and rear. |
| 1:28.4 | The bike I tested was made of Santa Cruz's top tier CC carbon. |
| 1:32.9 | The parts spec included the NV wheel upgrade, a SRAM X-01 drive train, Rockshocks |
| 1:38.1 | Pike Fork, Fox Float XEval Rear Shock, and SRAM guide brakes. |
| 1:44.0 | Claimed weight for this build is 26 and a half pounds, |
| 1:46.7 | but it comes at a cost, $8,600 to be exact. The Bronson is feathery light and well-specked, |
| 1:52.8 | but from the get-go I found it to be rather uninspiring ride. The VPP suspension platform felt |
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