Santa Cruz Heckler

High-Tower

I thought I'd put up a few pics of my steeds as an intro to the forum. So for your ridicule, first up is my Santa Cruz Heckler



Size XL to suit my unfeasibly long legs. I got it last year when I bust my old FSRXC. The Heckler is a bike I've wanted for years, I've liked them since way back when I used to work at Bike Scene, but it's taken 11 years to get both the money and permission from the wife.



The shock was upgraded to an RP23



And I wasn't keen on the black forks it came with so they've been changed to this years Rockshox Revelations. The exact same fork, just in white. Yes I am a tart, but the black ones haven't gone to waste.

Other than that it's a fairly stock Santa Cruz build, XT transmission (3x10) and shifters, with just a Deore chainset. Avid Elixir 5 brakes with 185 and 165 rotors,



The wheels are Hope Pro2s on WTB Laserdiscs with my favoured DT spokes and a pair of 2.35 Maxxis High Rollers



I upgraded the headset and bottom bracket to Hopes finest.



The stem is a nice Thompson, 110 suits me fine, with fairly average Truvativ bars



Seatpost is a syncros with a WTB saddle perched probably as high off the ground as any other bike on the forum.

All in all, a solid reliable build spec of a very nice traditional single pivot bike. I love it and it's been worth the wait.

Foesrider

Nice, should have gone with a black stem though :roll:

Thewaylander

Looks like your going all XC on a heckler long stem and so on, so all i can say sorry is wrong wrong worng

Go sell it and buy yourself a blur if thats what your after

1mancity2

Thewaylander wrote:

Looks like your going all XC on a heckler long stem and so on, so all i can say sorry is wrong wrong worng

Go sell it and buy yourself a blur if thats what your after

Agree, get the spacers down a bit, a 50/70mm stem on it and get it thrashed (or not your bike)

Nice bike

mrmonkfinger

nicely put together bike... but holy enormous seatpost, batman!

I'm guessing it goes XC, mostly?

leaflite

Size XL to suit my unfeasibly long legs

mrmonkfinger wrote:

but holy enormous seatpost, batman!

Cant really see what other option there is if he has very long legs?? As far as im aware they dont make an xxl!

chez_m356

leaflite wrote:

Size XL to suit my unfeasibly long legs

mrmonkfinger wrote:

but holy enormous seatpost, batman!

Cant really see what other option there is if he has very long legs?? As far as im aware they dont make an xxl!

+1, very nice bikes, but there sizing does seem on the small side, XL's work out at about 20.5'' and are supposed to suit people up to 6ft 6''

High-Tower

And 6'6" is exactly how tall I am. I don't think I've had a bike without at least a 350mm seatpost since I was about 14, so I've kind of got used to it. I'm used to working round all sorts of thimgs that don't fit me that well, but trying to ride ANY bike with a 50/70mm stem would leave me in totally the wrong postion to be able to pedal.

As regards it being 'wrong, wrong, wrong' as Thewaylander says, hey, it's horses for courses fella. I don't class myself as an XC rider, nor a downhiller, nor an AM rider, although if you want to apply a tag, then I guess that's the closest. I'm just a mountain biker, who'll have a go at most things.

RideOnTime

Smart...