Tallboy LT R Complete Mountain Bike - 2015
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The 2015 Santa Cruz Tallboy LT R Complete Mountain Bike picks up where last year’s model left off — ripping trails with aplomb. As ever, the stout aluminum frame is dressed in cost-effective components, which are built to take a beating all season long. Sure, you could save some weight upgrading to the carbon fiber version, but if you’re looking for tons of value in a certified trail shredder, you’ve come to the right place.
The Tallboy LT is made of aluminum, with Santa Cruz's signature hydroformed top and down tubes. A medium frame is about a pound and a half heavier than its carbon brother, but its price is much friendlier, and it’s still amply strong. And the strength and stiffness are further enhanced with the mechanic-friendly, oversized 15mm collet-style hardware and a 12x142mm thru-axle out back. The result is a frame that's light enough for endurance racing, and strong enough for anything you can throw at it.
At the heart of the LT's handling is a highly refined VPP suspension. It's a suspension platform that's widely beloved for its blend of pedaling efficiency and trail-erasing smoothness. VPP employs two aluminum counter-rotating links to achieve this balance. If you're wondering how it works, the upper link provides most of the rotation as the bike compresses into the sag point. This yields a vertical wheel path, which you'll notice in the form of a firm feel during acceleration. As the bike compresses deeper into the suspension, the lower link activates, moving the axle path rearward. The rearward axle path enables the rear wheel to travel out of the way of impacts, so the ride is smooth, not jarring. And you'll find the same collet-style pivot hardware that has become standard for Santa Cruz's suspension bikes. That means that your pivots stay tight and are simple to service, even for home mechanics.
Anyone who's ridden the LT will tell you that the feel is balanced, yet decidedly aggressive, and the geometry of the LT is an integral part of its near-magical handling. The 69.5-degree head angle doesn’t look particularly slack on paper, but with the larger wheels and longer-travel fork, it inspires incredible confidence at speed, while remaining maneuverable when you need it. Roomy top tubes per size enable the use of a modern cockpit setup consisting of a shorter stem and wider handlebars. The seat angle is fairly steep at 72.6 degrees, for an aggressive climbing position that enables efficient power transfer. At 17.7 inches, the chainstays are long enough for incredible climbing traction and confidence inspiring stability, without being so long as to compromise the quickness of handling. The short of stature will notice that the smallest size that the LT comes in is a medium. That's due to the increased standover height associated with the longer-travel platform and larger wheels. While that will keep some riders off of the LT, we can't help but admire Santa Cruz's approach to not build smaller 29ers if the handling would suffer.
FOX handles rear suspension duties with a CTD Evolution shock and its Climb, Trail, and Descend modes, while a RockShox Sector Gold RL fork does its thing up front. The Shimano SLX drivetrain is light, but tough and reliable, while the Deore M615 disc brakeset will give you smooth, predictable stops every time. The Race Face Ride stem, bar, and seatpost are tested to RF's rigorous durability standards, which should instill plenty of confidence. Tubeless-ready 2.3-inch Maxxis tires wrap around bombproof WTB STi23 tubeless-ready rims, and WTB also tops off the package with a comfortable-all-day Volt Race saddle.
The 2015 Santa Cruz Tallboy LT R Complete Mountain Bike is available in four sizes from Medium to XX-Large, and in the colors Gloss Black/red, and Yellow/gloss black.
Details
- 135mm of VPP-controlled travel
- 140mm RockShox Sektor Gold fork, FOX FLOAT CTD shock
- Shimano SLX brakes
- Hydroformed alloy frame
- Item #SNZ001Y
- Frame Material
- aluminum
- Suspension
- VPP
- Rear Shock
- FOX FLOAT CTD Evolution
- Rear Travel
- 135 mm
- Fork
- RockShox Sektor Gold RL
- Front Travel
- 140 mm
- Headset
- Cane Creek 10 Mixed Tapered
- Shifters
- Shimano M670 (SLX) 10spd
- Front Derailleur
- SRAM X5
- Rear Derailleur
- Shimano M675 SLX Shadow Plus
- ISCG Tabs
- yes, ISCG 05
- Crankset
- 22/34 t SRAM S1000
- Bottom Bracket
- SRAM GXP
- Cassette
- 11-36 t Shimano SLX HG81
- Chain
- Shimano SLX HG75
- Rotors
- Shimano RT66
- Handlebar
- Race Face Ride
- Handlebar Width
- 740 mm
- Grips
- Santa Cruz Palmdale Lock-on
- Stem
- Race Face Ride
- Saddle
- WTB Volt Race
- Seatpost
- Race Face Ride
- Seat Collar
- Santa Cruz bolt-on
- Hubs
- [front] SRAM MTH 716, [rear] SRAM MTH 746
- Tires
- [front] Maxxis High Roller 2 EXO Tubeless, [rear] Maxxis Ardent EXO Tubeless
- Tire Size
- 29 in x 2.3 in
- Pedals
- not included
- Recommended Use
- all mountain, enduro
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 5 years on frame
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