Steve Peat's 2012 Santa Cruz V-10 Carbon – First look

Cutting-edge rig decked out with equipment from new sponsors

Steve Peat's 2012 Santa Cruz V-10 Carbon

James Costley-White/BikeRadar

James Costley-White

Published: February 23, 2012 at 4:15 pm

Taking pride of place at this week's iceBike* show was downhill legend Steve Peat's 2012 race rig – a Santa Cruz V-10 Carbon newly decked out with Shimano and Fox Racing Shox bits.

We've already covered the now full-carbon V-10 in a fair bit of detail here and here, and Santa Cruz released some images of the new team bikes when they announced the move from SRAM to Shimano last month. But it's such a nice looking bike we thought you wouldn't mind a second look! Check out our image gallery for more shots.

James Costley-White

Editor, Mountain Biking UK magazine

James Costley-White is the editor of Mountain Biking UK (MBUK), the UK's best-selling mountain biking magazine, founded in 1988. James, aka JCW, has been an avid mountain biker since 1992, during which time he's amassed a huge amount of knowledge about the sport and tons of riding experience. He can regularly be found riding the trails around Bristol and South Wales. As well as editing MBUK, JCW contributes regular product reviews and other articles to the magazine. He's a fully-qualified professional journalist, certified as a senior reporter by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), and holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. As well as heading up MBUK, he's worked for other cycling titles including BikeRadar.com, ChopMTB.com and Triathlon Plus magazine, along with the Bristol Post, Western Daily Press, Gloucestershire Echo and Gloucester Citizen newspapers, in print and online.