Santa Cruz Nomad

ricardo_smooth

After ordering my dream bike in December, it's finally home!





spec:
Rear Shock: RP23 factory
Fork: 36 factory FLOAT RLC TAPERED
Headset: Hope
Seat Clamp: Hope
Seat Post: RS Reverb 420mm RH lever
Seat: SDG Bel Air
Stem: Hope DH stem 70mm
Handlebars: Easton Havoc DH 750mm
Grips: Superstar Excel
Brakes: Saint M810
Front Rotor: Shimano RT76 Ice Tech 203mm
Rear Rotor: Shimano RT76 Ice Tech 180mm
Chainset Shimano XT
Chain Device: E13 DRS
Pedals: Superstar Nano Tech
Wheel Build: Mavic EN521 on hope pro II evo
Front Tyre: Maxxis Minion DHF Super Tacky 2.35
Rear Tyre: Maxxis Minion DHF Maxxpro 2.35

GJC

Thats a great looking bike, i was thinking of getting one of these before i bought my spicy

Great build and spec list impressive

GJC

bluechair84

Argh! God... Browsing through those pictures I thought I'd suddenly become drunk. Then I realised the blurred vision, light splotches, and stumbling around in the kitchen was just the pictures.

Nice bike... but why oh why do it the injustice of a bloody camera phone!

cat_with_no_tail

bluechair84 wrote:

Argh! God... Browsing through those pictures I thought I'd suddenly become drunk. Then I realised the blurred vision, light splotches, and stumbling around in the kitchen was just the pictures.

Nice bike... but why oh why do it the injustice of a bloody camera phone!

Because he's just spunked all his savings on a Nomad so can't afford a camera

I say fair play.

bluechair84

Cat With No Tail wrote:

bluechair84 wrote:

Argh! God... Browsing through those pictures I thought I'd suddenly become drunk. Then I realised the blurred vision, light splotches, and stumbling around in the kitchen was just the pictures.

Nice bike... but why oh why do it the injustice of a bloody camera phone!

Because he's just spunked all his savings on a Nomad so can't afford a camera

I say fair play.

If it's the only thing you've got, then sure thing

ricardo_smooth

ha, yes it's the only thing I have tbh, I couldn't even be arsed to turn off the auto flash for the crank picture!! I'm sure i'll get some better pics @ some point

HarryK

I have one thing to say; damn.

MountainMonster

Lovely, green seems to be the colour of the season this year!

lawman

MountainMonster wrote:

Lovely, green seems to be the colour of the season this year!

green will always be cool, and will always be colour of the season well lime green at least, not so keen on darker shades, but the green santa cruz use is chuffing nice, i think sometimes its too much for the whole frame, but the cruz's always pull it off! top bike, would have put white rims on personally though

ricardo_smooth

lawman wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

Lovely, green seems to be the colour of the season this year!

green will always be cool, and will always be colour of the season well lime green at least, not so keen on darker shades, but the green santa cruz use is chuffing nice, i think sometimes its too much for the whole frame, but the cruz's always pull it off! top bike, would have put white rims on personally though

After my last bike bein white, I try and keep it to a minimum! Had to have white lowers as I didn't want TALAS as I won't use it!

Always nice to finally land my dream bike, bit of a void no looking on eBay go stuff ATM though! Just gotta try and swap my saints off my other bike for some more trail friendly XT's now!

ricardo_smooth

Just done something I said i'd never do and weighed the bike...pretty pleased at the figure to say it's only 5lbs heavier than my old 120mm bike that was a large and the nomad is an XL that fits me properly!!

anyway weigh in reading was 32.1lbs!

lawman

imo the best thing to do brake wise would be stick the saints on ebay and get a set of the M785 XT brakes from rosebikes. can be had £130 the pair!! would go nicely wih the icetech rotors you already have too!!

ricardo_smooth

nah, I really get on with the saints and with me wanting to ensure it's more biased towards riding down hills led me to the decision to go with saints when I had the build done

Thewaylander

Was gonna say stick with the saints, awesome gear and long lasting, will take a good few nocks in any Dh incident :P

And a good build a 160 biek that takes some stick rather than peple trying to add to light gear to a more aggressive bike. mucho approve

1mancity2

Lovely bike, is it living in the kitchen?

ricardo_smooth

1mancity2 wrote:

Lovely bike, is it living in the kitchen?

no mate, He lives in the garage and was only in the kitchen as a treat while I taped the frame up! The garage is attached to the house and alarmed up etc so it's almost as safe as it would be in the house anyway

1mancity2

Sod that get it in the bedroom!

ricardo_smooth

I did suggest me and the mrs cuddling up to it at night......but then I realised I'd need a queen size bed as it would have to be under the covers too!

chez_m356

thought i better take a look since you mentioned it, well, what can i say, at least its not a 5. thats pure exotica, very nice

Xgreygoose

Sweet as!!! Your going to love it 8) .
I can't stop riding mine. Its so bad my other bikes are collecting dust which is not good

EH_Rob

Xgreygoose wrote:

Sweet as!!! Your going to love it 8) .
I can't stop riding mine. Its so bad my other bikes are collecting dust which is not good

That must be a terrible position to be in, but I can help. I'll PM you my address and you can send me one of your Scapels.

ricardo_smooth

chez_m356 wrote:

at least its not a 5.

Don't you swear at me!

ricardo_smooth

Well,
Discovered that the paint on 'Mike Wazowski' must have been in the scare factory and all of this has appeared:




It's happening all over the bike, so he's going to have to be sent back on warranty

In better news though, within 12 hours of contacting Stif cycles/Santa Cruz. They have ordered me a new frame and just said to keep using mine until it arrives in 4-6 weeks (No stock of XL in the green so have to wait for another one painting up/shipping from the USA).

1st class service imo

1mancity2

Looks like the lacquer hasn't keyed on, good news about the service though

ricardo_smooth

Yeah, although it looks like the other possible cause is that it was painted at 16:55 on a Friday by the apprentice!

ricardo_smooth

Quick update for you all. Managed to get the frame replaced in the correct colour after SC USA trying to fob me off with a black or raw finish, i declined stating I bought green in February for a reason. This meant a short delay of another few weeks, but could still ride mine in the meantime how it was so wasn't any bother. Found that when pushed a little harder on multiple root sections, the chain would sometimes commit suicide off the front Anyway as a combative strategy i've upgraded the rear mech to an XTR Shadow+ jobby to see if this solves my problem. Just gotta wait until my glass back is better for a full review of its performance!


the Gnome likes it anyway!