The highball has been out bombing the competition at races since it was brought into commission santa cruz have shortened the chainstays by almost a half inch and stretched out the front end of the bike by about the same this allows you to run a more modern stembar combo and makes the bike a little quicker in the corners a lot of folks want to talk about head tube angle when they talk about hardtails but we rode a lot of different options and decided the 705 degree angle we used on the f