A brand new Santa Cruz Bronson guarantees to be higher than ever with delicate updates you’d must look onerous to note. Nonetheless 150/160mm of do-it-all journey, however with extra balanced mullet geometry and a tweaked VPP suspension format that strikes its hyperlink ahead for a smoother experience. Santa Cruz refined their common carbon all-mountain bike, creating a fair higher path bike AND a extra succesful huge mountain shredder…
2024 Santa Cruz Bronson carbon all-mountain bike up to date
The California bikemakers’s most-popular all-rounder is the mountain bike for riders who need one bike for blasting native singletrack loops, heading out into the backcountry for all-day path rides, and dropping into the bikepark for a style of enduro. The platform has been a stable all-mountain performer for greater than 8 years, getting a mullet replace in 2022, and inner body storage the subsequent yr.
Now it will get “developed MX geometry” and an “even higher VPP“.
That is the Fifth technology Bronson. And truthfully, it seems to be so much like gens 3 & 4. OK, the brand new cut up spars on the backside of the seattube do truly set this one aside. Nevertheless it’s actually the delicate ahead shift of the VPP hyperlinks that redefine how this bike rides – with a extra plush really feel and improved traction to absorb the more durable trails mountain bikers are using today.
What’s new?
“When you possibly can solely have one bike, and your mission is to experience that bike into oblivion then that is the one. From manicured bike parks to blown out loamy berms, alpine strains to yard trails, the Bronson is as at dwelling within the air as it’s within the grime.”
Santa Cruz reconfigured the long-running format of the Bronson’s VPP (digital pivot level) suspension that has outlined this all-rounder since 2013. By shifting the important thing decrease hyperlink ahead and the primary pivot barely down, Santa Cruz say they’ve lowered the bike’s anti-squat. The result’s a extra supple bike that may absorb the large bumps even when you’re standing on the pedals and filter out path chatter even when you’re pedaling.
Santa Cruz name it all-around higher VPP efficiency for a greater all-rounder bike
“Diminished pedal kickback on square-edge hits. Stays energetic whereas pedaling up and throughout tough, technical terrain. Much less anti-squat advantages descending sensitivity because of the lowered pedal kickback affiliate.”
Advanced MX Geometry
The Santa Cruz Bronson continues to be a 150mm mullet path bike, paring the smaller 27.5″ rear wheel to 160mm of journey up entrance and a bigger 29″ entrance wheel. Santa Cruz insist mullet is the way in which to go for this playful shredder fashion bike. It advantages from the extra agile rear finish and extra steady entrance, and a impartial really feel “when pointed downhill”. However Santa Cruz additionally say the mullet setup offers them extra freedom to play with rear finish size for a extra balanced experience.
So now the Bronson will get size-specific chainstays. And it will get proportional geometry throughout the 5-size vary (S-XXL) with even slacker angles. Now the Bronson will get a 63.9° or 64.2° head angle and 77.3-78.4° efficient seat angle, relying on whether or not you decide the LOw or HIgh place on the rear shock mount flip-chip.
In a time of ever-growing body Attain, the same-size Bronsons aren’t truly longer. However the 27.5-only XS is gone they usually add the brand new XXL on the different finish of the spectrum.
Tech particulars
- Glovebox safe inner body storage within the downtube underneath the bottle cage mount
- enclosed fully-guided inner cable routing from the edges of the headtube
- C carbon frames are suitable with mechanical shifting
- CC carbon frames solely embody inner routing for a rear brake & dropper put up – wi-fi digital shift-only
- 2.5″ max tire clearance, entrance & rear
- Increase 148mm spacing
- Submit Mount brakes with 200mm entrance /180mm rear rotors
- ISCG05 chain information mounts
- BSA Threaded backside bracket
- Santa Cruz UDH
- IS 1.5″ tapered headset
- Lifetime body guarantee
- Straightforward-to-source, easy-to-service bearings
2024 Santa Cruz Bronson – Choices & availability
The brand new Bronson now is available in two colours – Kalimotxo pink and Root Beer brown – and in 5 full bike construct choices. Or as a $3900 frameset.
Three builds – a $5000 / 5500€ R, $5900 / 6400€ S & the $7000 / 7400€ GX AXS get the extra inexpensive C carbon body.
Whereas the highest two $8000 / 8800€ X0 AXS & $9000 / 10k€ X0 AXS RSV specs get the top-tier CC carbon body.
As for spec updates, these prime 3 new SRAM AXS bikes additionally get Maven brakes, all however the entry construct get Fox 36 forks and Float X rear shocks. And all bikes get all-mountain-ready Maxxis Assegai + DHR II tire combos.
Phrase is that the Bronson’s Juliana Roubion sister bike received’t be getting the identical updates, not less than in the intervening time.
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