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Bikes of the Bunch: Santa Cruz Highball XC-Gravel bike

Blurring the lines between gravel and XC bikes to conquer Swiss mountains.

The new model progresses the geometry, saves almost 300 grams, and has room for two water bottles.

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Iconic California mountain bike brand Santa Cruz is diving deeper into the drop-bar pool with an expansion of its Reserve range of carbon fiber wheels, which will now include three road bike models and a second gravel set to go along with the two that are already in the catalog. All are designed exclusively for …

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Location, location, location. Where a property is located has long been considered the most important factor when considering real estate, and for good reason: budget allowing, you can remodel the inside and outside to your heart’s content, but there’s nothing you can do if the place sits next to a landfill, was built on a …

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Santa Cruz apparently had a crystal ball when it introduced the original Stigmata in 2007. Although billed as a cyclocross bike at the time, its more generous tire clearance and longer-and-lower geometry basically made it a gravel bike — just more than 10 years or so before we were actually using that label. The third-generation …

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