Santa Cruz Tallboy AL R Kit - Aqua - 2022

Are you the cross country mountain bike racer who enjoys things that go bump in the trail, the 2022 Santa Cruz Tallboy AL R Kit full suspension trail mountain bike is your perfect do-it-all ride.

When your cross country race course and training includes a hefty dose of descent with the requisite added suspension, the 2022 Santa Cruz Tallboy AL R Kit pulls out all the stops to make sure you have the best ride possible.

From the 130mm travel fork and shock to the SRAM NX Eagle drivetrain and rough and rugged aluminum frame,, the 2022 Santa Cruz Tallboy AL R Kit mountain bike is built to dominate virtually any trail you find.

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 coupled with a lower link-driven VPP suspension design this is one giant leap for the Tallboy.  

It’s the kind of bike that makes you sprint while going up, along, over, or down due to the maximum efficiency of the VPP design and responsive, lightweight chassis. But because it shares the same engineering principles as our longest travel bikes, the progressive lower link-mounted shock feels equally at home doing cross-country as it does in extreme-country. Paired with a 130mm fork the new Tallboy becomes ever more appealing to riders who like to open it up. 

And the geometry, that's a big part of what's going on.

Established theory suggests shorter travel bikes get ridden slower, therefore require steeper and more conservative geometries. In reality though, when was the last time you ever throttled back on a fun trail because you weren’t on a bigger bike?  Caution to the wind and all that. So we’ve done the same here and mimicked our longer travel geometry to create a bike with a 65.5-degree head-angle, generous front center, and short offset fork. Something rarely seen on a bike of this ilk.

And the radical thinking doesn’t stop there.  The Tallboy’s 436mm chainstays ensure that the bike stays nimble in every situation. Match that to a relatively low BB (335mm and 37.5mm drop) and you’ve got a combo that’s ready to haul into every pocket turn and launch out the other side.

• Frame R
• Fork FOX Rhythm 34, 130mm, 29"
• Rear Shock FOX Float Performance DPS
• Rims RaceFace AR Offset 30 29" Rims
• Hubs Front: SRAM MTH 716, 15x110, 32h
• Rear: SRAM MTH 746, 12x148, 32h
• Spokes Sapim Race
• Tires Front: Maxxis Dissector, 29"x2.4, 3C, EXO, MaxxTerra, TR
• Rear: Maxxis Rekon, 29"x2.4, 3C. EXO, MaxxTerra, TR
• Bottom Bracket SRAM DUB 68/73mm
• Crankset SRAM Stylo DUB
• Chainrings 32t
• Shifters SRAM NX Eagle, 12spd
• Rear Derailleur SRAM NX Eagle, 12spd
• Cassette/Freewheel SRAM PG1230, 12spd, 11-50t
• Chain SRAM NX Eagle, 12spd
• Brakes SRAM Guide T
• Rotors Avid Centerline 180mm
• Handlebars RaceFace Ride
• Tape/Grips Santa Cruz House Grips or Burgtec Bartender Pro Grip Minnaar
• Stem Burgtec Enduro MK3, 42.5mm
• Headset Cane Creek 10 IS Integrated Headset
• Seatpost SDG Tellis
• Saddle WTB Silverado Race Saddle or WTB Volt
• Pedals Sold separately

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