In this episode of the podcast we chat with Santa Cruz htSQD athlete Tobin Ortenblad, and Santa Cruz director of product Josh Kissner about the recently revised Santa Cruz Stigmata: where it fits in the gravel world, suspension forks on gravel bikes, Tobin's experience at Unbound, and more. For you Santa Cruz owners, Josh and I even get into some Glovebox hacks. There's a lot in here that just doesn't make it into website copy, so if you're hungry for more information on the new bike, this is the place for it. We hope you enjoy. If you do, please help us placate the massive robot in the clouds by liking, and subscribing. And if you have questions for us here at Santa Cruz, email us at [email protected]. Thanks!

In this episode of the Roller Door, we chat with the Santa Cruz htSQD-- that's Alexis Skarda, Tobin Ortenblad, and Keegan Swenson-- about their experience at this year's Downievlle Classic. After a 2 year hiatus, the Downieville Classic returned for its 25th running, and as in past years, it didn't disappoint. The team explains pre-race meals, talks through their individual races, and goes deep into bike setup. It's an interesting look at how the fastest riders in the world take on a unique, demanding race like the Classic. We hope you enjoy. If you do, please help us placate the massive robot in the clouds by liking, and subscribing. And if you have questions for us here at Santa Cruz, email us at [email protected]. Thanks!

Today we're Out to Lunch with Kiran Mackinnon, on the subject of MX wheels. The nerd alert is blinking bright on this one-- we chat about the benefits, drawbacks, and nuances of mixed wheel bikes. We talk bike geometry, from how geo changes from MX to full 29er's, BB drop, to Butt Reach, Kinematics and more -- this is a wormhole for those looking to define the subtle differences from bike to bike. We hope you do enjoy! Remember to let us know via email if there are questions you have for the team here-- that email is [email protected]. Oh, and if you enjoyed this, make it official by liking or subscribing. Thanks for listening...

This week on the Podcast we've got composites guru and Santa Cruz Engineering Manager Nic McCrae, and Nic's full of stories. This dude knows carbon better than most, and today we talk about compliance, strength, design, the differences between C and CC carbon, what overseas factories are really like, and making custom parts for athletes like Greg Minnaar and Danny MacAskill. Level 8 Nerd Alert for this one. We hope you enjoy— and if you do, please like, and subscribe, or tell a pal. Ok, onward.

Oh, remember -- our little snippet of music is La Luz.

Chris Naegele is a father, a rider, and a self proclaimed data dweeb. As head of Rider Support, and by wrangling the data points taken from thousands of rider inquries, his department has been able to inform what information should be featured on santacruzbicycles.com, the way we display it, and even influence the design of our bikes.

On this episode of the podcast Garen and Chris define what's warranty and what's not, chat about the early days of GoPro, tough conversations with riders, common questions and about the way Chris rides. We even vist New Dad Corner, and get to soime listener mail.

If you have questions for Chris or anyone here at Santa Cruz Bicycles, email us at [email protected]

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In this episode of the Podcast we've got Josh Kissner. As director of product, Josh has been involved with every bike Santa Cruz has made in the last decade or more. We talk about... well, bikes. Which ones are good for which kind of riding, how the product team goes about producing this stuff, Josh's personal bike preferences, and more. A couple of dorks chatting away. We hope you enjoy-- and if you do, please subscribe, and rate, or like, or whatever. It makes the robot happy.

And if you have any questions for Josh or anyone here at Santa Cruz, write in: [email protected]

Hello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. In this episode Garen's true identity (trials kook and absolute fanboy) breaks cover for a wide ranging chat with the one and only Danny MacAskill. I took this episode as an opportunity to grill Danny about a handful of moves that have baffled me over the years. We also talk trials in general, stuff Danny looks to achieve in his video projects, and how he keeps his head in the game when it sometimes takes a few hundred attempts to get one clip. We talk about Danny's latest video, Postcard from San Francisco, where injury, permitting, and mechanicals made for a particularly long and difficult production before Danny starts in on the ebikes... this guy is a fanatical ebiker, in fact, after the podcast, we burned another hour talking about tech climbing, 3- battery days, and ebike tech. Sorry for any poor audio you might hear-- we recorded this in late 2022 with some old equipment. Finally, if you wanna dork out in the particular moves I asked Danny about, there are links and time stamps in the shownotes below. Remember, get in touch with questions or anything in particular you'd like to know about what we do here at Santa Cruz. Email us at [email protected].

Inspired - 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o Wall 180 to bike racks: 3:14

Industrial Revolutions - 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbC5yVqOdI Steps: 1:51

Cascadia - 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0rbxB9Lqg Wall madness: 3:25

Postcard from San Francisco - 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIBldkWO9a4 upstairs 180 hop: 2:13

oh, and that ~15 seconds of music in the intro? That's 'Morning High' by La Luz

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Hello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. In this episode Garen Becker— today chats with a true champion for the sport of mountain biking-- Ben Cathro is a longtime downhill racer, mountain bike skills coach, creator of the excellent video series How To Bike, and team manager-- and racer for Pinkbike's world cup downhill team. We chat about technique, bike tech, ebikes as a training tool, changes to the world cup race program for this year, and more. Links to Ben's youtube channel and the How to Bike series are below. We hope you enjoy!

Cathrovision

How to Bike

Welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. This episode is the first in a series we're calling Out to Lunch: In these episodes we'll dig into a particular subject with the people behind the product: in todays case, that subject is the Santa Cruz 5010, and that person is everyon's favorite human dyno, Kiran MacKinnon. Is there something you'd like to know about Santa Cruz Bicycles? Or mountain bikes in general? Don't forget to write in with questions, statements, judgements, accustations, and musings that pertain to our beloved sport of mountain biking . It's what we're here for. The email is [email protected]. We hope you enjoy, and we hope to hear from you.

Oh and a reminder that our 15 seconds of music comes from La Luz. The track is Morning High.

Welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. In this episode Garen talks with Jack Russel. Jack's an industrial designer turned product manager here at Santa Cruz. Wide range of topics today, and big time nerd alert-- we talk about the evolution of bike geometry, aluminum vs. carbon, Jack's move from engineering to product management and what those two jobs mean here at Santa Cruz, airplanes, and of course, ebiking! Jack and I share an office, so he's an easy guy to get on the podcast-- so if you have any questions for Jack, or if you thik of any topics you'd like us to cover, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected].