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The Santa Cruz Syndicate riders, Laurie Greenland, Jackson Goldstone and Nina Hoffmann, have taken to their socials showcasing their brand new Santa Cruz V10 Downhill Mountain Bikes while preparing for the 2023 season in New Zealand. Greg Minnaar will be joining the team in Australia at the end of the month.
The showcased bike if the eighth generation of V10, one of the winningest downhill bikes of all time.
What you see in the following video is still very much in the prototype stages, and the series goes behind-the-scenes showing the work that the team at Santa Cruz and the Syndicate put into this and other bikes.
Episode 1 takes us back to just a few weeks after Minnaar won the 2021 World Championship and went to work validating numerous test mules to decide the direction of the next bike. You might be surprised to hear that other suspension designs were tested before Greg settled on VPP.
The Syndicate will be racing this bike in 2023 and they will continue to develop it throughout the year. Future episodes will dive further into the process of making a world class downhill race bike.
When will it go on sale? No time soon. This is development in plain sight.
