I like this format of asking guys with the previous generation for their input. Please do this with future bikes. This bike ticks a lot of boxes and gotta say looks sick in both color options.

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed it!

@duncanh6045

3 жыл бұрын

Yep totally agree, normal guys talking price point, geo, etc, just feels like a regular conversation you would have with the locals.

@WheeliamWallace

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent format!

@1RFRR

3 жыл бұрын

agreed. ive had loads of diff bikes since startin freeridin in 1997, but this kind of insight is super helpful. i will now be going from my 2007 v10 to a 2021 nomad :)

@fademasterfade227

3 жыл бұрын

@@1RFRR Wow, that's going to be such a huge change. No offense to the v10 but the new bike is going to be a massive upgrade. I've oggled them at my LBS and really a drool worthy bike. Let us know your impressions.

I'm 6'2 and on an XL. Alpine Bike works had a 2022 still sitting in their Killington location and I just got the absolute most sickest deal ever on it and I couldn't be happier.

Love looking at stuff that I’ll never own

@OSAlifestyle

3 жыл бұрын

Work hard play harder :)

@bfranco1519

3 жыл бұрын

Anything is possible if you work towards it. It's just a bicycle set your goals higher and go for it!

Best this about the bike is that you can make it any color you want with green screening it

That was fresh lone wolf, love the format. Thank you!

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate that!

Just watched Pinkbike's review of this same bike and I must say, your review is 10x better even though I don't like to see top of the line bike reviews. You guys definitely have the best review channel💪🏾

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah, glad you enjoyed it!! Thank you for your support!

great format having v4 users test the bike without them knowing the geometry updates. makes this review more realistic and provides good comparison from the older version. great job! 🙂👍🏻

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍

It looks sick, one of the few 27.5 bikes that still interest me 🤘

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

And it should.

the round table part with owners of previous models of the bike is SOO GOOD! specially because these are people that don't necessarily change their bikes all the time, they are closer to being an average rider than most of the reviewers (no offence) which belive it or not it brings a more approachable opinion for viewers to get a sense of the new bike because someone who currently uses the previous version tells you hey this is better than the one i own because of X Z & Y reasons you can probably trust it to be much more honest and or reasonable!! you guys should do it more often!!!

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. We were pretty excited about it too. Glad you enjoyed it and we'll try and do more of it.

Good job comparing the v4 and v5.. I agree to the guy with mustache, to have a mullet setup in the future.

I would love to see you guys do a back to back on nomad v5 vs bronson v3. Adder Green vs Matte Olive. 170 vs 160/150.

Great video !

This is a beauty.

Nice!

The green color is so nice 👍👍

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

It's a polarizing color for sure but it grew on us as we rode it!

@ofenrambo7537

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoamWolf I think I will combinate it with my purple parts from hope

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

@@ofenrambo7537 That would be pretty sick!

@ofenrambo7537

3 жыл бұрын

This is what I want 🤣 I hope I can realize it

Good review and no frickin face diapers. 👍🏻

Best color ever on a trail bike. I own a darker green Switchblade and love it but this brighter green is an attention-grabber. Great format as well.

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Right on! Thanks for watching.

Do you think there will be an alloy version of this at somepoint?

Curious, what were you shuttling for this test?

Rad!!!

I did the roundtable-style conversation, basically a mini podcast, more of this!

Looking forward to clearance pricing on the "old" models

@topspot4834

3 жыл бұрын

Lol good luck finding one! My LBS hasn't had a Nomad or Bronson since August. Taking orders in Nomad but there's no leftovers anywhere. Bronson not coming til Summer 2021 (per their bike rep).

love it. but have to say if i could have it in alloy and possibly in black i would have bought one already. the oxblood looks good tho!

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Never know what could be in the pipe...

@Dawks12

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoamWolf nice can’t wait to see what new year brings. My Bronson 2 has been so good for the last 3 years. but time to upgrade now these new changes to the nomad have arrived! Il keep my eyes peeled 👀

Awesome bike! Was about to order a Megatower but this Nomad holds me back!! May I ask the height of the testers? I am 5ft 9 with shoes and thinking of going with Large and one of the testers rides the V4 Nomad in Large. Good job , keep up!

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, most testers are 5'11-6'1.

@ioannisparaskevopoulos1120

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoamWolf Thanks a lot

@xLOWDESERTPUNK

2 жыл бұрын

So what size did you choose? How does it fell?

@ioannisparaskevopoulos1120

2 жыл бұрын

@@xLOWDESERTPUNK I test rode one and wasn’t that fast, nimble but not fast...I finally went with the Pivot Switchblade, which I am selling for the new Firebird (I need all the extra travel)!

Anybody know what brand model pedals on the green Nomad?

@TheLoamWolf

Жыл бұрын

I want to say the Flat pedals were Diety Bladerunners but can't remember exactly.

Love that bike...wondering if upgrading from a 2019 Bronson is worth it....

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

That's the question there isn't it! surprisingly the two guys we let ride the bike thought it was.

@adamsiler4766

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoamWolf Right on, I have the Cascade Link in the Bronson and fork out to 170 so essentially a 170/160 Bronson...but I'm sure Cascade Components will come out with a new link for this nomad so the potential for a 180/180ish 27.5 enduro bike is there for sure!

@eugenux

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamsiler4766 that's the only way, bar a mx wheel size, that would make sense on this bike. At 170-170, it is neither enduro, nor freeride..a jack of all trades and master of none. When the V4 was launched, it had around 10-20 mm more than the vast majority of enduro bikes of that time. Yes, it had 27.5" wheels but it had 170mm when most of the enduros were 150-160mm bikes. Now though, most of the fast 29ers have 160-170 or 170-170mm travel, point at which the Nomad has just its legacy name going for it, which is pretty bad(and sad). Edit. Of course it will be a great bike to ride...for a 27.5". The new Altitude, both the Megas(the Nuke one and the SC one), the new Slash, not to mention the 1 year "old" enduro or the RAAW Madonna, Kona Process X, Privateer 161 and others...many-many others will blast it out on and off the trail...and that's ok, the Nomad isn't for that type of riding. It would have been so much cooler if they would have launch it as a 180-180mm travel bike, to compete with the likes of Yeti SB165, Norco Shore and the future Nuke Giga 27.5 and probably other bikes soon to be launched in the same category...but yeeah...SC...they think they invented the mtb-ing and that they know better.

Nice 😀😀😀😀😀😀💖

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I'd just get the sb165 instead, 0.2 degree slacker, 76 seat tube, slightly longer reach per size, very similar leverage rates, but standard with a 180mm fork up front instead of 170mm whilst keeping the same geo. On paper both bikes are nearly identical geometry and suspension eise but the fact the sb165 takes a bigger fork means you either have more travel st the front or in the case of mulleting it like the guy in this video did, again you can still run something like a 170mm fork and 29 wheel unlike the 160mm fork and 29 wheel like the Nomad. The sb165 was there first and is the better bike imo. Go look on 99spokes and compare them, the nomad v5 is almost like a blatent rip off of the sb165, the silouhettes are practically identical from a geo standpoint and now SC has brought their leverage rates more in line with Yeti for more midstroke support and a bit less progressivity.

@deankruse2891

2 жыл бұрын

might as well just go with a propain and get 180/180

I'm a sucker for that ox blood

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

They're both pretty cool colors.

I'm feeling a bike give away at the end of this long term review? Please

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe if enough people ask Santa Cruz will let us!

@richardseller3733

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoamWolf always look forward to your videos. Bike, equipment or riding area reviews all top level content. Would love to have a Santa Cruz.

That dude ride an XL with a front 29? Looks like he's 5'10 max. That's a pretty big enduro/downhill bike for most people no?

@LukeSykes11

3 жыл бұрын

He’s 6’2”

grinch colour?

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. Just in time for Christmas

@ForkInTheButt

3 жыл бұрын

Bubblegum

Made is China? Or Taiwan?

Please help me one mountain bike bro

Santa Cruz makes such rad bikes, no denying that. But I am not a fan of a lot of the colors they choose.

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they do have some wild colors. Luckily they typically have a more subdued option to compliment the attention grabber.

@daverichardson6334

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoamWolf Excellent point.

My kid doesn’t need that college fund... right?

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Send them to a trade school. Come out with less debt and a way to make more money. haha.

boring af.

@TheLoamWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John!