About Santa Cruz Bicycles

Santa Cruz Bicycles is a manufacturer of high-end mountain bikes based in Santa Cruz, California. Santa Cruz Bicycles has founded in 1993 in a space the size of a single car garage in the Seabright Cannery, in Santa Cruz California. Their first bike, in 1994, was a full suspension bike called the Tazmon. It had 80 millimeter (3.1 in) travel single pivot design, the first on the market. It was followed a year later by the 100 millimeters (3.9 in) travel Heckler, a model that was discontinued for the 2016 model year and relaunched in 2020 as an e-bike.