SANTA CRUZ MEGATOWER C GX AXS RSV
£TBC / 29in / santacruzbicycles.com
The slogan in the marketing blurb for the new Santa Cruz Megatower exclaims ‘bigger and badder’ – considering the first-generation bike was hardly a minnow, boasting 160mm of rearwheel travel and a 515mm reach on the largest frame size, that’s a bold claim, and just goes to show how incremental progress has transformed the 29er enduro bike in just a few years.
But I’d argue that the most significant update to the new Megatower is harder to measure with a slide rule or an angle finder. It’s the suspension performance that really gives the new Megatower an advantage over its predecessor.
The second most obvious improvement on the new bike is the internal frame storage. When Santa Cruz launched the redesigned Bronson last year with its swollen down tube, plenty of riders questioned the outsize proportions. Well, now we know its purpose (although it’s weird that Santa Cruz didn’t just introduce the door at the same time).
The Glovebox, as Santa Cruz has dubbed it, sits about
