While Santa Cruz are best known for mountain bikes, they’ve also been producing drop bar bikes for years starting with the radical aero alloy Roadster. The new Stigmata was originally designed for ‘suffering on the (cyclo) cross – hence the name – and has always stayed on the racier, lightweight, fast handling side of the ‘gravel/cyclocross’ spectrum. This new gravel bike shifts dramatically towards a more MTB influenced geometry and feature set though, so what’s in this Holy Grail of the off-road, drop bar church?
