Thinking about buying this santa cruz 5010.

Scotty_D

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Ten Fidy?
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The 5010 seems to be a popular bike, although I am so far down the 29er rabbit hole a 27.5 bike feels odd to me.

I've demoed some 29ers and they just don't feel playful to me. I'm comming from a 26er and I am also a rather small man so I think both these things factor in. But on a 29er I feel like my only option is to monster truck through everything.
 

Ian F

Well-Known Member
Yeah, I guess if you're coming straight from a 26", going to a 29er would be a big jump. I've had a couple of 27.5 bikes and oddly neither felt as playful as my Primer or Megatower. I've spent the last couple of months doing jumps on my Megatower. It gets the job done far better than I expected it to. Plus, it's a Large, so it's definitely a big, long bike. Of course, it'll do the monster truck thing better than my M16C DH bike did, if asked to.

It'll be interesting to see what my 26" (Tazer) and 20" BMX bikes feel like when I dust them off during the winter for indoor park playing.
 
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