Great interview, and wonderful to finally have someone point out the fact that reach is only meaningful if taken in conjunction with stack. I always do this. With typical Mtb head angles, the relationship is about 0.4x.
Elephant in the interview room(that I really wish you had asked him about):
Nick says:_ “if you think about a bike, you've got front center, which is your bottom bracket to your front axle and rear center, which is your bottom bracket to your rear axle. And the **ratio** of those two things are really what defines your weight distribution on the bike. And **it shouldn't change**” _
Yet, they make all their frame sizes with the same rear center, even though front center(on this bike) grows by 16% across all sizes!
If the ratio is so important (which I agree it is*), why aren’t they adjusting chainstay length across sizes?
*they think so themselves too: [https://www.pinkbike.com/news/behind-the-bike-developing-the-xxl-santa-cruz-v10-2016.html](https://www.pinkbike.com/news/behind-the-bike-developing-the-xxl-santa-cruz-v10-2016.html)
*as a tall rider, that’s actually what I think I great about this bike, the fact that I can get longer chainstays, in order to get some weight on the front.
March 21, 2019, 5:21 a.m. - Tjaard Breeuwer
Great interview, and wonderful to finally have someone point out the fact that reach is only meaningful if taken in conjunction with stack. I always do this. With typical Mtb head angles, the relationship is about 0.4x. Elephant in the interview room(that I really wish you had asked him about): Nick says:_ “if you think about a bike, you've got front center, which is your bottom bracket to your front axle and rear center, which is your bottom bracket to your rear axle. And the **ratio** of those two things are really what defines your weight distribution on the bike. And **it shouldn't change**” _ Yet, they make all their frame sizes with the same rear center, even though front center(on this bike) grows by 16% across all sizes! If the ratio is so important (which I agree it is*), why aren’t they adjusting chainstay length across sizes? *they think so themselves too: [https://www.pinkbike.com/news/behind-the-bike-developing-the-xxl-santa-cruz-v10-2016.html](https://www.pinkbike.com/news/behind-the-bike-developing-the-xxl-santa-cruz-v10-2016.html) *as a tall rider, that’s actually what I think I great about this bike, the fact that I can get longer chainstays, in order to get some weight on the front.