Santa Cruz Factory Tour with Greg Minnaar [Episode 4 of 4]
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2024
- Four-time downhill World Champion Greg Minnaar has been racing for Santa Cruz Bicycles since 2008. So when he told us that he didn’t know what goes into building the bikes he rides we knew we had a job for him. In this four-part series, Greg visits the Factory in Santa Cruz, CA where we design, engineer, test, validate, assemble and package every Santa Cruz bike.
Greg doesn’t get the VIP treatment, though. Instead, he’s coached by the real bike building champions and actually gets his hands dirty to bring some bikes to life.
In part four, Greg pairs up with Travis and Kesh to finally build a bike.
how the wheels keep on turning. Greg pairs up with John as he meets the super skilled people and sees the machinery behind every wheel that’s built in Santa Cruz, CA.
• About Santa Cruz Bikes •
Santa Cruz Bicycles creates category-leading downhill, cross country, and electric bikes, but the company is best known for models that combine the same pedalability and descending prowess the OG Tazmon brought to the table. We design, research, engineer, manufacture and assemble the very highest quality bikes. We do most of this ourselves in Santa Cruz, CA. Our bikes are so simply advanced that they perform at the highest level and are made to last many lifetimes of real world abuse.
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Someone is going unpack their brand new bike and wonder who the hell Gary Minimum is
Paying your employees to ride to work is great. Hopefully there is affordable housing within riding distance! Another reason to consider Santa Cruz.
Fully enjoyed the series. Totally enjoy my Stigmata!
So cool that this is done right here in Santa Cruz!
Represent!
Watching the GOAT wrap his head around the NDS crank arm was gold.
I'm on my second Santa Cruz bike. Last bike was a V3 5010 and now I'm on the new Chameleon R29 and I love it!! I will probably keep this one forever and add a newer tallboy next year.
Awesome to see that they can have a bit of fun when filming. Did they put a sticker on bike that said "partially built by the GOAT" ? Decals. Not As easy as it looks. Would love to see a build up of the V10 from start to finish.
I met the owner of Santa Cruz in the early 90's. I spoke to him and sketched on a napkin the future of mountain biking. I gave him the basic design for a full suspension mountain bike , dropper post, ergonomic saddle (hole cut out) and electric mountain bikes.
THANK YOU
For a guy who goes very fast on a bike, The🐐is sloth-like when assembling production bikes.😂
Anyone would be if you haven't done it before.
“Bloody Jordi lazy as ever” 😂😂
im eating spicy food and snorted when i heard that.. thats some funny shit
That also got me 😂
poor Jordi.. sitting at home minding his own business, catching strays..
Greg’s at a point where he is reluctant to accept that a new GOAT is coming in……time for Greg to hang up his helmet and coach the new prodigies like Jackson Goldstone I think. He will always be a DH legend as is Peaty in my opinion and has years and years of experience to teach these youngsters a few things outside of riding fast and winning races. 👍❤️
Rad video 👌
thank you. glad you liked it.
Ordered a frame set a couple of years back, and it came with a performance elite shock instead of the factory that the description said. SC’s response was: that what happens sometimes 🤷♂️
🤣🤣🤣 Yea thats why SC is the goat.
So did they make good that mistake?
Awesome series! Can see why these bikes come with the price tag they do👍
I thought the opposite, timed manufacturing and assembly is never good for employees or quality. It actually put me off buying one as they are insanely priced.
@@aberdeendeltaforce I don't know of any other large output manufacturers that aren't timed or on an assembly line (US assembly line) that would be cheaper. And the cruising around with a trolley picking parts, doing the fork etc looks fairly time consuming and inefficient compared to slapping the same parts on every build. Hence the reason I thought the price was slightly justified 😅.
Curious to what brand you went with?
@@jamlee344 Intense tracer 👍 and trust me when I say they could sell these bikes at half the price and still make a healthy profit. It costs them around $145- $230 per carbon frame made in Asia. Depending on the c frame or cc. They still have to outsource the linkage and shock but even then I would estimate costs of around $400 -$500 per complete frame set. I would say it does not cost them more than $1000 to produce a complete bike based on my inside knowledge of bicycle production.
@@aberdeendeltaforce yeah making them would be the cheapest part of the whole process. The overheads would be expensive. Engineers, advertising, warranty, race teams etc etc.
@@jamlee344 the biggest cost in any industry is the ceo or owners pay cheque, that’s the bottom line in any business, they will cut costs ruthlessly to keep that yacht running and that jet flying. 😂👍
I LOVE MY HECKLER :)
Does the Santa Cruz bikes and Santa Cruz Skateboarding affiliates with each other?
SJAJAN VIDEO POZDRAV 👍🚴♀️🚴♀️🇷🇸
Where are the frames made?
China I believe
Dun need to remove the decal. Just sign ur name there. 😅
Dear Santa Cruz, please stick with 148mm rear hub spacing and threaded BBs. Please never go with headset cable routing and please always allow for cable rear mechs and cable or hose dropper posts. I would rather spend my money on Chris King bearings to hubs, headset and bb and have a standard cable SLX/GX drivetrain than have electronic gears. Please also consider doing a frame only option without a shock as I would rather take the savings on the standard shock and go with a Push Elevensix. On my 4th Santa Cruz frame and about to buy a rear Reserve alloy rim which will do me for the rest of my life. Usually go through a rear rim every 6 months, so this should save me a small fortune going forwards :)
We're listening
Make sure to send one signed by him
it's out there
It is shocking how much manual work is needed to assembly a bike, lot of human work, lot of labour costs, manually collecting parts (decals - what!!!), the complete process is very time consuming and ineffective. Now I understand why bikes are so expensive. Bike indusrty needs a Henry Ford, and learn manufacturing process from automotive industry to be more effective. The manufacturer who will be first to produce with real industrial methodes could dominate the whole bike market with top quality and half price.
Btw: Santa Cruz bikes are great, I also own a bullit (ebike).
pays $5/day to ride bike to work, but takes an hour to get there....;-)