Supreme x Santa Cruz Chameleon 27.5+ D Aluminum
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — Santa Cruz
Chameleon 27.5+ D Aluminum
About the original
The Santa Cruz Chameleon 27.5+ D Aluminum is a hardtail mountain bike built around 27.5-inch plus-size wheels, a Fox 34 suspension fork with 130mm of travel, and interchangeable rear dropouts that let the frame accept either 27.5+ or 29-inch wheel-and-tire setups. Santa Cruz Bicycles was founded in 1993 in Santa Cruz, California, by Rob Roskopp, Mike Marquez, and Rich Novak. Roskopp originally came out of the NHS/Santa Cruz Skateboards side of the company. The Chameleon is Santa Cruz's entry-level hardtail and has been in production for over two decades. The FW2018 Supreme collab applied a co-branded paint job to the same frame, retailing at $2,698 against the stock Chameleon's $1,599.
About Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Skateboards is the oldest continuously operating skateboard brand in the world, founded in 1973 in Santa Cruz, California by Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, whose initials form parent company NHS, Inc. The brand began when a Hawaiian distributor asked NHS to fulfill an order of 500 fiberglass boards using surfboard-shop scrap. NHS later spun off Independent Trucks and Road Rider Wheels. Jim Phillips became art director and drew the Screaming Hand logo in 1985, now one of skateboarding's most reproduced graphics. Supreme has collaborated with Santa Cruz on co-branded decks.
