CAPIN
Retro Guru
I dont understand it Al. There is some conflicting reasoning in your posts.
It is cannondale that has ALWAYS been very conservative in terms of rear suspension. single pivot, simplicity..
You can see consistent philosophy from the beginning till today. Although now its probably totally different company.
BTW you just cant compare Cannondale with Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz does very nice bikes but thats it.
The only important thing they did was to buy rights to VPP at some point.
(smart move, THATS the fashion you are talking about)
Otherwise SantaCruz never had anything (really interesting) to offer.
Without VPP (and ties to MBA that shamelesly pushed them for so long) they would be maybe out of business.
At best they would be one of the smaller brands like Ventana, Elsworth, Titus.
It is cannondale that has ALWAYS been very conservative in terms of rear suspension. single pivot, simplicity..
You can see consistent philosophy from the beginning till today. Although now its probably totally different company.
BTW you just cant compare Cannondale with Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz does very nice bikes but thats it.
The only important thing they did was to buy rights to VPP at some point.
(smart move, THATS the fashion you are talking about)
Otherwise SantaCruz never had anything (really interesting) to offer.
Without VPP (and ties to MBA that shamelesly pushed them for so long) they would be maybe out of business.
At best they would be one of the smaller brands like Ventana, Elsworth, Titus.