Gravel Burn Bike Check: Kevin Benkenstein’s Santa Cruz Stigmata
With Gravel Burn just around the corner, we’ve heard a lot of debate around setup choices. To get an informed perspective, we called on Kevin Benkenstein, South Africa’s original ultra-endurance racer and a pioneer of gravel riding, to unpack his setup choices and share his thoughts ahead of the event. Hear it straight from the […]
Santa Cruz release all-new Blur
Press Release The all-new Blur is built around Santa Cruz’s new SUPERLIGHT suspension design that is tuned to optimize the ride characteristics demanded by modern mountain bikers – lightweight and efficient with ample plushness to ensure riders are in control when the terrain gets gnarly. We tapped into everything we’ve learned from years of making the […]
Santa Cruz announces all-new Heckler CC e-bike
Press Release The Heckler is the most agile e-bike on the market—one that sports equal parts capability and playfulness. It’s fun uphill, it’s fun downhill, and it rides more like the aggressive trail bike it was based on than whatever your notion of an e-bike may be. HECKLER CC 27.5 X01 RSV ‘Yellowacket’Using Bronson–our all-around […]
Meet the new Santa Cruz Tallboy 4
The new 120mm Tallboy takes a leap further into what short-travel bikes really are capable of. With kick-ass lower-link VPP suspension, a streamlined design, the typical Santa Cruz refinement, and rather radical geometry, the Tallboy is back to being a genre bending folk hero. Sure, 10mm more travel might only seem like one small step—but […]
Meet Greg Minnaar and the Santa Cruz Blur at Den Anker tonight!
Come and join Greg Minnaar, Andre Van Aarde, and Oliver Munnik and get up close and personal with the 2019 Santa Cruz Bicycles Blur tonight. Join the Santa Cruz team on 28 March 2018 (tonight) from 19:30 onwards at Den Anker in Cape Town. Head over to Facebook here to RSVP and find out more […]
Epic Bike Check: Oli Munnik’s Santa Cruz Blur CC
Oli Munnik has been riding the all-new Santa Cruz Blur from the start of this year’s Absa Cape Epic. He went to great lengths to keep the bike under wraps, organising a 5AM appointment with his local bike mechanic and taping up every reference to the brand and model name (which it turns out there […]
Santa Cruz unveil all-new Blur and Highball cross-country race bikes
Today Santa Cruz has announced two new mountain bikes. The Blur, a dual-suspension race focussed cross-country bike as well as an updated Highball hardtail race bike. The Blur is built around a full carbon frame featuring Santa Cruz’s tried and tested VPP suspension design with 100mm of rear travel. A 69-degree head angle promises confident […]
South Africans have a Maxxis tyre for every occasion
Whatever You Ride: South Africa Has A Tyre For You At Rush Sports, we pride ourselves on supporting not only mainstream road and marathon MTB riders but also core groups of smaller subcultures such as enduro, downhill and gravel grinding … that’s why we stock and supply your local bike shop with the biggest and […]
Juliana Furtado long term review
Juliana bicycles are a women’s specific sister company to Californian bike wizards, Santa Cruz. They use the same frame design as the Santa Cruz bikes with a tweaked suspension tune for lighter female riders, and ladies specific contact points. The Furtado is a 130mm travel 650b do-it-all trail bike (equivalent to the Santa Cruz 5010), […]
Bike Check: Gravel Bikes of Tour de Braai
Last week I had the privilege of tagging along on the Tour de Braai – a five-day cycling tour from George to Swellendam via mostly gravel roads. If you missed the daily reports of our adventures you can have a squizz here or via the related articles below. Now though, it’s time for a quick […]
Win a Santa Cruz and help build trails with TokaiMTB
In partnership with Santa Cruz Bicycles, TokaiMTB is offering the chance to win a Santa Cruz bike from their lineup. As part of a national funding drive, each R150 that you donate to the TokaiMTB trail fund gives you one entry into the draw to win. How to enter Head over to the TokaiMTB website […]
Video: The Syndicate 2017 – Episode 2 – Loris
This time around we follow one of the newest recruits, Loris Vergier, around his home in Cagne-sur-Mer. Loris gives us the lowdown on racing in denim, Ferrari-esque cars, and the fast-life of twisting throttles near white sandy beaches, and then it’s on to Ft. William and Leogang for World Cup action with the whole team.