{"id":17349,"date":"2016-11-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/11\/23\/bike-check-greg-minnaar39s-santa-cruz-v10-r5843\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T07:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:26:22","slug":"bike-check-greg-minnaar39s-santa-cruz-v10-r5843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/bike-check-greg-minnaar39s-santa-cruz-v10-r5843\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Check: Greg Minnaar’s Santa Cruz V10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Other than being one of the world’s greatest downhill racers, Greg Minnaar is also a co-founder of the Crank Chaos<\/a> mountain bike festival. Like a good host, Greg spent most of the event on his bike ensuring that all the riders were having a great time. Craig Kolesky managed to catch up with Greg in the Lesotho mountains for a closer look at his Santa Cruz V10 CC downhill bike.<\/p>\n

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Greg apparently rode this bike at the Lordes World Cup. It suffered some minor damage during that race weekend and, as a result, has been relegated to off-season duty in South Africa. The V10 CC frame is an extra extra large which Greg and Steve Peat have found to be a good fit.<\/p>\n

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The Syndicate team are sponsored by Fox suspension who kit the team out with their top of the range Factory series equipment. Fitted to Greg’s bike is a Fox 40 fork and DHX2 coil shock. Greg’s mechanic at The Syndicate, Jason Marsh, started the Marsh Guard fender brand a few years ago and the team has been racing with them since.<\/p>\n

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The bike is fitted with Shimano’s Saint downhill brakes and drivetrain parts. The modified cassette, however, is from Shimano’s road cycling catalogue. The pedals are Crank Brothers Mallet DH while the bash guard is from Gamut.<\/p>\n

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The carbon handlebar is Greg’s signature model by ENVE Composites with a Gamut stem. He uses a prototype Chris King Buzzworks headset to offset the steerer and gain an extra few millimeters in the top tube length.<\/p>\n

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The wheelset features a set of Chris King hubs laced to ENVE M90 rims wrapped in Maxxis Minion DHR II tyres.<\/p>\n

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Full specification:<\/h2>\n
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  • Frame<\/span>Santa Cruz V10cc XXL<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Fork<\/span>Fox 40 Factory<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Shock<\/span>Fox DHX2 Factory<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Headset<\/span>Chris King Buzzworks<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Crankset<\/span>Shimano Saint<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Bottom Bracket<\/span>Shimano<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Rear Derailleur<\/span>Shimano Saint<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Shifters<\/span>Shimano Saint<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Cassette<\/span>custom Shimano road cluster<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Chainring<\/span>Shimano 36T<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Chain<\/span>Shimano<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Bash guard<\/span>Gamut P20s<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Brakes<\/span>Shimano Saint with Ice-Tech<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Rims<\/span>Enve M90<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Hubs<\/span>Chris King DH<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Tyres<\/span>Maxxis Minion DHR II<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Stem<\/span>Gamut Cillos Direct Mount<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Handlebar<\/span>Enve Minnaar Downhill<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Seatpost<\/span>Enve carbon<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Saddle<\/span>WTB Silverado<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Pedals<\/span>Crank Brothers Mallet<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Grips<\/span>Ergon GA2<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Mud guard<\/span>Marsh Guard<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Other than being one of the world’s greatest downhill racers, Greg Minnaar is also a co-founder of the Crank Chaos mountain bike festival. Like a good host, Greg spent most of the event on his bike ensuring that all the riders were having a great time. Craig Kolesky managed to catch up with Greg in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[870,207,675,141],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-crank-chaos","tag-downhill","tag-greg-minnaar","tag-santa-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17349"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}