Santa Cruz Tallboy C

I recently realized that my 2004 Trek Fuel 100 was out of date. It sure rides great, and I’ve had some epics days on it, but I was faced with overhauls of both rear and front shocks and in need of a new drive train. Ordinarily, I’d throw down the dinero to have the LBS get my ride back in order, but this time the news was bad. The shocks and drive train were so old that there are no replacement bits available unless I wanted to scour eBay for deals. After some soul searching and math, I realized that spending upwards of $2000 on repairs to my old ride just wasn’t the smart thing to do.

So I bought this…