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Santa Cruz launches all-new Blur LT
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Santa Cruz launches all-new Blur LT
Three years after the first long-legged Blur variant, here's the completely redesigned 2008 incarnation

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Don't like it.
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looks like it hit every branch on the way out of the ugly tree, much prefer the look of the old one
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Keep your childish comments in the soapbox please.
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keep yourself in your caravan.
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I don't like it.
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I think it looks good - I might buy one
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Bloody beautiful
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Oooooooh Karlos. Temper, temper. "Childish comments"? Funny, but "Dirty Karlos" doesn't seem the most, er, grown up of monikers...
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It's alright, but how does it ride, the old LT wasn't actually supposed to be that good when considered against the competition.
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Oooooooh Karlos. Temper, temper. "Childish comments"? Funny, but "Dirty Karlos" doesn't seem the most, er, grown up of monikers...

Tongue in cheek Sir, tongue in cheek.

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Feltching again?
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I like that actually, which is unusual for me as I'm not a big SC fan.  Maybe it's because it looks like a Yeti
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I think it actually looks "OK"... however, my big issue is why another frame that essentially does the same/similar job to the Heckler and Nomad... all 6in"ish" travel frames, and I guess all around the 6.5lb weight mark.... i know two are linkage, and one single pivot.. but hey ho!... in my eyes, there's a gapping hole in the range.... there are the superlight and Blur XC, mega-light frames around the 100mm travel mark..... i would have thought competition to the 120mm/130mm travel bikes (ala Fisher Hifi, Trek Fuel, trance X), in a custom build trickier flavour would be more appropriate (in a 5.75 - 6lb frame weight).

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Don't like it

It looks dated already.

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They've given it a slightly nomad-ish shoulder. Which still looks crap.

 Shame, probably a cracking frame, but if i dont like the looks i wont buy it.

Edited: 26/02/08 23:46
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Magazine testers didn't like it either when they rode it at Afan.

But I only spoke to 2 of them. ( the only 2 that were testing it that day)

Steeper head tube angle seemed to be their main complaint.

Edited: 27/02/08 03:03
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I like the looks and can't see what's wrong with a 69° head angle given the bikes intended use. In fact it was looking great till I got to the end and realized that a Nicolai Helius CC costs about the same. 

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Thats true I thought the price a little excessive - you can nearly get a fully built heckler for the price of the anodised Blur LT frame (would still like one...)

A bike with 140 mm rear and 160mm front for the UK, come to think about it anywhere unless your into downhilling whats the need ?

It also looks crap which isnt helped by photographing against a black background, half the shock has disapeared.

 

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