Thread: FS: Nomad Mk1.5 - rad parts

Nomad MK1.5 For Sale
Trying to get the word out. Hoping to find someone looking for something like this. Posting to TGR first because I like this community. Keep your ear out and if someone you know is looking, send them my way. Price police, please let me know if I'm way off, but I think it's about right. I'll never get what I put into it, but someone looking for a high end bike won't find anything new at this level for anywhere near this price. Hopefully I find the right buyer who will ride it a ton.

Small picture - more pictures below.

FRAME
Mk1.5 Santa Cruz Nomad. Medium. Black anodized. This is the 2009 time-frame after they revised the frame, but right before they switched to the 2nd generation MkII Nomad with the VPP2.

HEADSET/STEM/BARS
Chris King 1.5" headset, Easton 1.5" 70mm stem, Easton Havoc bars.

BRAKES
2013 Shimano SLX brakes with 8" front rotor, 6" rear, Icetech pads. Very nice brakes. VERY powerful.

FORK & SHOCK
Fork is 2009 Fox 36mm Van RC2 coil fork. Custom tuned by Pedal Pushers in Golden, CO by shop owner, ex-PUSH suspension tech. Heavyweight oil, custom ported rebound circuit. Awesome low speed and high speed compression damping (and high/low adjust) while still retaining great rebound damping control.

Rear shock is Fox Van coil with custom Nomad PUSH tune (actually sent to PUSH). Burgtec offset bushings installed into shock eyelets for slight BB drop and slightly slacker head tube angle. Can be swapped for standard bushings if desired.

DRIVETRAIN
Enduro Bearings ceramic bearing kit in XT cups. XT crankset, XT (or X9) cassette, XT front derailer, X9 rear derailer, X9 shifters.

SEATPOST
Thompson seatpost (30.9mm - long, uncut post) with Santa Cruz branded quick-release clamp

WHEELS
Hand built wheels. Hadley hubs laced to Mavic UST 823 rims. Hubs are 20mm front, 10mm bolt on rear. Rear bolt is titanium through axle. Standard 135mm spacing - uses one 6mm hex to remove - very trick. 823s are setup tubeless with Stan's fluid. Brand new (1 ride) WTB 2.3" Weirwolf rear tire, Maxxis 2.5" Minion DHF EXO (foldable) front - non-UST tire running as tubeless - sets up awesome. Wheelset is pretty light and strong. Very impressed. Will be sad to sell wheels.

CONDITION
The bike is pretty much perfect. I am the original owner. It doesn't have a lot of riding time on it, but I'd like to sell and use the money for a short travel bike. One scratch on stanchion - never wept or leaked. It is not on the damper fork leg anyway. Wheels are a season old, built by the Fix in Boulder, CO. Custom suspension work is all local - Golden and PUSH in Loveland, CO. Everything works. Bike is ready to rock.

PRICING
$2100 as pictured/described. Couple options for other wheels/brakes or no wheels/brakes.

Thanks for looking.

PICTURES

Outlandishly long brake hoses put hair on your chest. New brakes, haven't cut hose yet.


Front end...


Thee quarter view...


Hub/brake/20mm/fork...


PUSH tuned Van R coil


Only real blemish. Tiny.


When is the last time you saw these words on a frame?

Poop Ghost might be interested. I'd shoot him a PM.

ANy chance you would swap a 11' lyric rc (1.5") for the fox? I'll thow in some cash for the hassel? (tried to PM you but new to the forum and not sure it went thru). I'm just down the road in Superior..

Dickey, thanks. JJ, I responded.

oh man, if it was only a lg frame. I'm 6'2" and thinking it would be a tad to small? nice bike though

bu-ump
1245

and again.....

And a bump - 2100 for price. Have a couple different wheel and brake options at this point. Both to get pricing/weight down...

pending...

You're the man brettf, my brother has needed a good pedal bike for ages. Can't wait to ride a climb with him again instead of watching him schlep his M6 for miles up hill. He's pumped.

Right on. Hope this works awesome for him!

Shipped out today.

And for an update, sold!

This is not about the sale but maybe I can get a reply how can I determine the difference between the Nomad 1,1.5, and 2 versions.

Originally Posted by jqualls

This is not about the sale but maybe I can get a reply how can I determine the difference between the Nomad 1,1.5, and 2 versions.

I know some of the differences. The 1's lingages ate bearings so they beefed them up and added grease zerks to the bottom linkages for the 1.5. They tweaked the leaverage ratio on the two and designed it around an air shock instead of a coil, plus it has the grease zerks and updated linkages. I think I have some of that right, but anyone else feel free to chime in with a better and more thorough explanation.

If you're trying to tell the difference, from 20 feet the Mk1 and Mk1.5 Nomads look more or less the same, Mk2 Nomads are shaped differently.

Mk1.5 has the 1.5" head tube - it's a dead giveaway.

That help?

Oh, and hick, they do not have grease ports on the 1.5. The revised linkage is supposedly some difference in the upper linkage or the top tube where there were occasional problems with the 1. But I never compared the linkages directly. I also have never encountered anyone with a problem on their Mk1.

But to be clear, zerk fittings are only found on the MK2 to date.