During a quick visit to the Santa Cruz Factory earlier this week, I had the opportunity to peruse the showroom floor. Nestled in a corner, was this cutaway of the latest Santa Cruz wonder bike.
Drop past the break to see it’s internals neatly displayed…
The Nomad is the first Santa Cruz Bike to feature internal housing. In this cutaway, you can clearly see how they’ve integrated the cable routing through a tube that runs inside the frame. This makes installation and maintenance significantly easier, and prevents the cable from slapping around and making noise.
The creases are from a latex bladder being inflated to push the carbon into the mold during the curing process (or that’s the simple way of explaining it.)
On carbon frames, the BB is usually created separately, then bonded to the frame.
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