Race report from the Syndicate.

MINNAAR TAKES LEADER JERSEY BACK WITH A 3RD AT MARIBOR DOWNHILL

June 21, 2009
Maribor, Slovenia

Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Greg Minnaar (SRAM/RockShox) overcame an ankle injury to place 3rd at the fifth round of the Nissan UCI World Cup Downhill in Maribor, Slovenia and takes the leader’s jersey from teammate Steve Peat. This marks Greg’s 40th world cup downhill podium out of 70 world cup starts. Steve Peat was on a great race run and was .06 faster at the first split than race winner Fabien Barel. He then suffered a rear flat and finished in a distant 38th place. Josh Bryceland struggled to find his form and placed 25th. (more…)

We stopped by the Santa Cruz Syndicate pits today to check out their bikes and while we were there we got the low down on the new prototype air shock they are running. (more…)