Why would we title a post one way and then show a picture of a grubby, distinctly non-carbon part? Because Spomer is doing the good work up in Whistler, and since we stole his image from his report on vitalmtb.com, it seems only fair to send you there to drool at the real pictures. Click on this picture to dial direct to that feature...

While the worker bees, sales guys and marketing stooges keep trucking along arrow straight and tight like a muthafukin’ tiger down here at the cannery, the engineers are up in Whistler, entertaining journalists and dazzling passers-by with some carbon fiber v-10s. Hey, wait, didn’t they just go to Portugal to do that? Oh, lookit that, they did. Back at the mill, we’re still not even sure what color the damn things are gonna be, and are busy trying to get the catalog photo shoots dialed, since that many headed beast is upon us. You wouldn’t think that a few pages of lust-inducing treeware due to show up in September would need to get beaten into shape so early, but it does. And here we are. Jealous, us? Never…

Even as the bar tabs are being racked up in Canada, the new plastic fantastic is continuing to do us proud and lay into the World Cup Season:

Greg Minnaar WINS – June 20, 2010 – Leogang, Austria from santa cruz bikes on Vimeo.

Hell yeah, that’s two wins out of three of six races this year, and on the podium every time so far. Not bad for a new bike, and super good results for Mister OneLife Consistent. Syndicate Den Mother Kathy Sessler’s blow by blow report of the weekend can be found here.

As for us, back here in the less than glamorous world, we’re gonna go back to sharing the one pair of handlebars and two derrailleurs we have to shuffle between 17 bikes, and spend the next two days in very close confines with this guy:

Not all three, just the one without facial hair who looks like someone slipped him a little extra LSD in his coffee. But the personal space, well, that's about accurate...