The Santa Cruz Tallboy V6 increases travel to 140mm in the fork and 130mm in the rear. The frame moves away from the brand’s VPP suspension platform to a 4-bar layout. The design keeps downtube storage, a hi/lo flip chip, and a do-it-all character. The bike is offered in CC frame options with proportional geometry across sizes to maintain consistent feel. Santa Cruz states that 4-bar systems can deliver low anti-squat for minimal pedal kickback on square-edge hits and remain active while climbing over rough technical terrain. The layout also provides strong braking performance on steep, rough descents by isolating the rider, maintaining traction, and keeping the bike composed.
"Four-bar systems can easily achieve a low anti-squat, which means minimal pedal kickback on square-edge hits and remain active while pedaling up and across rough, technical terrain. They exhibit fantastic performance while braking on steep, rough terrain, isolating the rider from the harshness of and maintaining traction at all times. Which means the bike (and subsequently, the rider) can be consistently composed while riding the hardest trails."
"Along with the 4-bar suspension layout, the frame has also undergone some weight-saving measures to make it more efficient across all types of terrain. The sixth-generation Tallboy retains the downtube storage, the hi/lo flip chip, and the same do-it-all spirit that was so beloved on the last generation."
"Coming in just CC options for the frame, and each size gets proportional geometry, so that no matter what size you ride, the bike feels the same while sitting on the new 4-bar layout. But why did Santa Cruz choose to switch things up for their new take on a classic trail bike?"
""We used a four-bar layout on our ebikes initially to make the bikes ride the way we wanted while fitting a full-power drive unit," reads the literature on the Santa Cruz website. "For the Tallboy, we were really looking for a very different feel than the previous versions, and we were able to fine-tune the kinematics to get what we wanted: a moderately progressive suspension that eats bumps while being sprit""
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