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Huffman JC, Alpert JE. An approach to the pyschopharmacologic care of patients: antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers, and natural remedies. Med Clin North Am. 2010 Nov 1;94(6):1141-60.
Rotherberg B, Schneck CD. Anxiety and depression. In: Rakel RE, ed. Textbook of Family Medicine. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 47.
David B. Merrill, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc
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Watch a video Watch a video review from one of our experts Front Back Photos (3) Video View larger Polk Audio db501 5" 2-way car speakers Item #: 107DB501 In Stock 36 Reviews Free Installation gear for most cars Your price: $99.99 pair Earn up to 100 Rewards points Add to Cart Free Shipping Lifetime Tech Support + Add to wishlist + Email me alerts for this product Scratch & Dent: $84.99 View all associated offers Need help? 1.888.955.6000 Email Chat Does it fit my car? Select your car Find what fits your car ----- Please select a year ----- ----- Please select a make ----- ----- Please select a model ----- ----- Please select a body ----- ----- Please select an option ----- Loading... Will that piece of gear fit your car? We've climbed into thousands of vehicles to find out. x By buying this product you'll earn up to 100 Rewards points. When you sign up for a Crutchfield account, you'll be enrolled in Crutchfield Rewards. You'll earn one point for every dollar you spend on gear from us. You can turn your points into Rewards Cards that you can use toward future purchases. You can sign up for an account now, or after you complete your purchase (you'll get credit for the points either way). Sign up for a Crutchfield account
by Leigh Schoettinger Give your music new life Good music becomes great when you hear it through Polk's db Series car speakers. Polk engineers use laser imaging to determine the ideal combination of speaker materials and design to eliminate distortion. The resulting technology produces speakers with smooth frequency response, sharp detail, and the ability to play music at high volumes without strain. Polk's db501 speakers are engineered to fit 5" openings, featuring 4" polymer/mica woofers with durable rubber surrounds that won't fall apart under stress from heat, moisture, or time. Liquid-cooled 3/4" silk/polymer dome tweeters use powerful Neodymium magnets to deliver precise high-frequency reproduction, enveloping you in bright musical detail. The built-in two-way crossovers keep the high and low frequencies flowing to the proper drivers for seamless, efficient audio. Whether you've got a factory radio or an aftermarket stereo, these efficient speakers will spice up your daily drive. Priced per pair Product Highlights:5" 2-way car speakers (pair)4" Dynamic Balance polymer/mica composite woofer with butyl rubber surround3/4" liquid-cooled silk/polymer composite dome tweeterNeodymium tweeter magnetKapton voice coilbuilt-in two-way crossover networkstainless steel mounting hardwarepower range: 4-45 watts RMS (135 watts peak power)frequency response: 65-22,000 Hzsensitivity: 93 dBtop-mount depth: 1-7/8"warranty: 1 yearOur 60-day money-back guarantee
impressive speakers Written By Jason, Kent, Wa on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I got these speakers hooked up to a Rockford Fosgate P400.4 channel amp and they are a perfect match. No clipping or distortion and they are a huge upgrade to my stock 4" speakers I had in my 1999 toyota avalon. Great product and great price would recommend. Pros: Sounds good Cons: None
Great Product Written By KLo, Jacksonville, FL on Monday, January 05, 2015 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Got these for my husband for Christmas for his beloved '91 4-Runner. He installed 4 speakers and a JVC stereo in about 2 hours. My product advisor at Crutchfield was excellent. I would have to say my experience with Crutchfield was the best on-line experience I've ever had. Pros: Easy to install. Sounds great.
Polk Audio db501 Written By Brian M, Virginia on Thursday, November 20, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Great sound from such a small speaker. 2 4" Polk's and 2 6" Polk's paired with a Pioneer stereo, and the sound is GREAT!! Pros: Price, Quality and sounds good for a 4" speaker Cons: NONE
Polk Audio db501 Written By Anonymous, Salt Lake City on Friday, November 07, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) They are just what I was looking for. Nice range and easy to install. Fit is perfect for my system and auto.
New bike speakers Written By Anonymous, Clinton, Maryland on Sunday, November 02, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Great new speakers for my 2005 Honda Goldwing Pros: Much better performance then the prior speakers Cons: Not an exact fit but I got them in with the help of a few washers
No comparison Written By Bobco, Mauldin, South Carolina 29662 on Saturday, October 25, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) The speakers, one inch larger than stock fit perfectly. Pros: Sound Cons: None
Polk db501 Written By Pete, Concord,NC on Monday, May 26, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Tried these after two different sets of Kickers. Definitely worth the diff in price and got a buy one get second half price. Full sound for a 5" speaker. Pros: 5" fit my vehicle. Vast improvement over stock. Decent price. Shipped quickly. Cons: none
good value Written By Anonymous, Richardson tx. on Sunday, February 09, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Fit well in back doors of frontier. They are a huge improvement over factory. Nice fill speakers well worth the price. Highly recommended. Pros: Good value nice clean highs and mids. Cons: None
Pretty good for how small they are. Written By ParkerH, Utah on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I am thoroughly impressed by how powerful these speakers are. They have a very clean crisp sound. I replaced the old stock speakers from my '96 Toyota Corolla and these speakers are exponentially better. I know I was replacing almost 20 year old speakers, however I can now hear the music over the road noise of an almost 20 year old car. I am very impressed. Pros: Clean and crisp sound. Better all around speakers Cons: Everyone complains about there is no bass but what do you expect from a 5" speaker.
Polk Audio db501 - Perfect Fit and Sound Written By Patrick A, Chesnee, SC on Monday, January 06, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Easy install, great sound improvement all across the sound spectrum. Will have to install subwoofer for better bass definition, but I am satisfied for now. Speakers are exactly what I expected, they are awesome for the money.
Polk Audio db501 Written By Dennis, Placerville, CA on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I needed to replace my factory speaker in a older car and the Polk Audio db501 speakers are a great replacement. They bolted into the facory locations without any modifications required. These little speakers sound great. Pros: Crutchfield said they would fit my application and the speakers sound great for their 5 inch size. Cons: Frequency response lacking on the low end. I will need to install a sub woofer.
Fantastic Written By Deagle069, Jacksonville FL on Wednesday, January 01, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Fantastic build quality, Great sound quality , Marine Certified Great upgrade from stock Pros: Fits pretty good on my 2012 Goldwing. Had to place washers on the screws because the speaker mounts don't extend as far as stock. Other than that couldn't be happier. Cons: none
Polk Audio db501 Written By Rick, Santa Rosa, Ca on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Great sound from these little speakers. Perfect for the 92 Accord doors and required no modification.
Excellent speakers at a great price Written By dsgerlach, louisa, va on Thursday, September 26, 2013 Perfect Upgrade To My Factory System. Wish I Would Have Bought Them Years ago Pros: Even Install, Great All Around Sound Cons: n/a
Really nice sound for the price Written By A Guy With A Toyota, Santa Monica, CA on Saturday, September 14, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) After ordering, I worried that these wouldn't be enough for my Avalon, was thinking I should have ordered 6" speakers instead. But I installed these anyhow, and couldn't be happier. Great sound, with good bass response even without a subwoofer. Pros: Price, ease of installation with existing wiring Cons: The holes don't completely line up with existing holes from 1997 Avalon factory speakers. But still easy enough to install by drilling new holes.
Dangerously powerful speakers Written By Drizzy Dre, Evanston on Saturday, June 22, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) These speakers pack quite a punch. my 300/4 channel amp from JL Audio may have poisoned my previous speakers with too much power(or they were outright defective), but for the size these little monsters deliver impecable sound quality and durability than can survive a reasonably powered system ( no 1000w amps here). combined with 5.25 inch rear deck speakers of the same brand, i get a beautiful field of sound with power balanced to clarity and succinct sound precision. to say the least these were a steal using the outlet store option with an incredible 40 bucks off the top. Pros: great loud sound , resilient performance, vibrant quality and clarity. THEY LEAVE VERY LITTLE TO BE DESIRED!!! Cons: tweeters tweet just a little too hard {noticeable high frequency knocks at sound levels that can damage your hearing anyway].
Polk Audio db501 Written By David, Heron Mt on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Excellent speakers great bang for the buck Pros: Great volume very clear sound Cons: None
Polk DB501 Written By Rich B, Seymour Ct on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Great sound, for what I paid can't beat it Pros: Wow what a sound Cons: none
Great! Written By Keith, Raynham, MA on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Great sound, great deal, flawless installation and support! Pros: easy installation, Great sound, Reasonable price Cons: none
Excellent sound and value Written By Jerms, Kalamazoo, MI on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Easily installed in my doors and excellent sound from these speakers!
2004 Nissan Frontier CC install... Written By CrazyCarl, Northern VA on Thursday, April 26, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Well made speakers that install easily on 2004 Frontier. Edge of screw holes need to be clipped but metal is soft enough standard nippers work great. Included wiring harness for t-shape connector makes rest of install easy. Speakers are still breaking in but you know anything will be better than the stock foam surround with paper cones. Pros: Easy to install and sounds good. Cons: Little bit of customizing needed but nothing anyone with simple tools can't handle.
Good Choice Written By CJ, Angola, NY on Thursday, March 29, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Installed these in the back doors of my 03 Nissan Frontier and the sound was awesome! I am not using an amp to power them at all. I just have a double-din Pioneer stereo that I also installed myself. Chatted on the online chat with Jenny and she recommended this set plus the 6 1/2" for my front doors. Those sound great too! She also found that it was saving me $$ because when I bought this set the other ones came half off! So it fit my budget and truck just right!! Pros: Everything good and installation was easy! Cons: none
Polk does it again! Written By Roadnuts, CT on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I bought the Polk DB series speakers for my 93 Volvo 240 sedan. Unfortunately the stock size speakers are only 4" front and 5" rear. I did not expect much sound or volume from such a small package. After doing some light customizing to get them fitting properly, I fired them up powering them only with my new Kenwood X695 radio. Wow! I can't believe how much sound comes from these tiny speakers! I added an MTX powered sub while I was re-doing my stereo for some thump in the trunk. These speakers keep their clarity even at high volumes, and reallyperform wonderfully even with just the Kenwood receiver powering them. Pros: Great sound even with the small size. (I used 4" and 5" coax) Speakers have an excellent fit and finish. I even used the included grills for my front speakers. Cons: None!
Good looks, good fit Written By Jon M, Big Lake, MN on Monday, May 02, 2011 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Good, clear sound from these little guys. Installation was easy and with Crutchfield's instructions, took no time at all. As these are pretty much the only 5" model speaker, they are sometimes the only choice. Luckily, they are a great speaker.
Polk 5" door speakers-Great Improvement! Written By Elle, Whitley city, KY on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I am very pleased with my recent speaker purchase. After wonderful customer service over the phone, I took Tyler's recommendation and selected these. They were as easy to install as he had said-with great instructions- and sound sooo much better than my previous ones. I didn't replace the back ones only because of the age and mileage of my car. I'll definitely keep purchasing from Crutchfield for their expertise and value pricing.
92 Toyota 4Runner - Yes, it does fit! Written By BrianC, Dallas, TX on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 The "outfit my car" guide says the back panels in my old 4Runner require 5 1/4" speakers, but when I tried to install them, they were too big and I found the previous replacements were 4". I measured them and found the hole to be 5 inches!!! NOTE: This is when putting them in the original ported, amped, boxes that are still in place. These work perfectly! I hope they correct the guide for all those old 4Runners that are still on the road. As far as the sound, they are limited on bass, but what do you expect from 5" speakers. I have matching 4" up front and the sound is clean and accurate; just as I'd hoped. I can always at a subwoofer later.
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May be great, but I'll never know Written By James, Near Greenville, SC on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 These may be great speakers, buy I'll never know. Contrary to what the Crutchfield site says, they do not fit in the front doors of a 1991 Audi 200 with a factory Bose system. That car has an amplified speaker enclosure in each front door, with a recess for a 4" speaker with three mounting holes in a triangular arrangement. The Polks have four mounting holes in a square arrangement. There is no way to make a square speaker fit down into the triangular recess. Removing the entire speaker enclosure is not an option as that would leave no place to mount the speaker.
Great Sounding Speakers Written By Vincent, Central California on Friday, March 28, 2008 Finally got around to changing the front speakers in my wife's car. She is using a Sony Head Unit CDX-GT320 which puts out 17w RMS per speaker. These 5in speakers replaced the 4in paper stock speakers. A BIG IMPROVEMENT!!! Also, easy to install. The hardest part was I had to drill 4 holes. The total time was less than 2 hours. ( I am Slow)
Polk Audio db501 Written By Ethan, Oklahoma City on Friday, June 08, 2007 Great speakers, easy install. I am pleased with the speakers, Excellent customer service. Happy Customer.
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Hey I just wanted to resurrect this thread for an update if you could Jeff.
Man, I'd love for you to be able to do this full time and really do well, it's KILLER pasta.I am making some Wednesday as part of a gift for my Mom and Dad. My wife and I tend to give more food gifts than anything and this year we bought my folks a 1oz white truffle which is arriving today. I want to eat is asap so we're going to make a pasta dish (not sure what yet) and include a TON of shaved truffle.


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"Underrated hero"
Grant is one of the most underrated heroes of American history. He is usually remembered as a drunk, a butcher, or an incompetent, who had one of the most corrupt presidential administrations ever. There's a grain of truth in some of these — Grant did have a drinking problem earlier in his life; his final push to end the Civil War resulted in appalling casualties; and many of the men he picked for his administration betrayed his trust. (No evidence about the incompetence, except with money: he was a brilliant general and a wonderful writer.)
But Grant remains a hero: personally honest, a devoted husband and father, a courageous soldier, a brilliant strategist, and totally committed to Lincoln's vision for ending the war. H. W. Brands demonstrates his remarkable virtues in chapter after fast-moving chapter. Even his presidency gets more positive attention than usual: among other things, he broke the power of the Ku Klux Klan in the postwar south.
And of course there's the inspiring story of his battle with bankruptcy and cancer and his struggle to complete his memoirs before succumbing to the final assault. Their subsequent publication (by Mark Twain) ensured the prosperity of his family for many years after his death.
H. W. Brands tells the story as much as possible in the words of the participants. Every biographer of Grant will quote from the same letters and journals and memoirs; but usually these are snippets interspersed with summary and interpretation. Brands is more generous in his quotations, presenting whole paragraphs and even groups of paragraphs. The result is an exceptionally vivid account. Brands has captured him in motion.
Stephen Hoye narrates briskly and with a lot more passion than is usual in nonfiction. It's an audiobook I plan to return to again and again.
"Good all-around production"
Agnostic and evil secular humanist that I am, I still spend hours every week reading the Bible - or listening to it on audiobook.
Finding an audio version that I like has been a struggle. The versions with the best production values, like The Word of Promise, use translations I dislike because they tend to use "Biblish" - useful maybe if you can follow along with text and commentary, but not easy to follow as a form of audio storytelling. Translations I like better and think are more appropriate for listening - the NCV, the NLT, the CEB - have audio versions but not first-rate ones.
Then there's this one: the dramatized NIV. It's right about in the middle in terms of both accessibility and production values. I don't recognize the actors - none of them credited anywhere I can see - with the exception of the actor who voices God, who I believe is Todd Busteed. But they're all good readers and are not afraid to express emotion. The music is excellent and never distracting. The translation is a bit formal but free enough to be comprehensible to a first-time listener.
So, while it's not my ideal version, I think this is the best all-around audio Bible I've found.
"Earthy and immediate"
I had just finished listening to Dan Stevens' remarkable reading of The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. But my Homer itch hadn't been fully scratched. For relief I turned to an old favorite - Stanley Lombardo reading his own translation of The Odyssey.
Lombardo's version is equally remarkable, but in a very different way. Where Fitzgerald is stately and heroic ("lift the great song again"), Lombardo is earthy and immediate. Lombardo developed his version originally for public performance, and his reading reflects that: it's brisk, rhythmic, and varied.
I don't read Greek, ancient or modern, and can't recommend one over the other in terms of accuracy. What I CAN say is that both are successful narrative poems in English, although they seem to be almost intentionally at opposite ends of the diction continuum.
One of the things I enjoy about the Lombardo recording is that Susan Sarandon provides a brief synopsis of each book beforehand. Another thing I like is the musical theme that plays as each episode begins. I've heard people complain about the fact that it's the same theme each time; but to my way of thinking, that's an asset. It serves to set the mood and it ties together the various parts of this extremely varied work of literature.
"Problem play"
The Taming of the Shrew is another early Shakespeare play, and it's one that makes me distinctly uncomfortable - maybe even more so than The Merchant of Venice, another "problem play."
It is, in my opinion, a misogynistic play. The spirited Kate has a few moments of tenderness with her crazy husband Petruchio, but only after she's been starved, deprived of sleep, and forced to debase herself in front of others. (To his credit, he never actually hits her, but that's setting the bar pretty low.) Many productions try to get around the implications by making it all seem ironic, but I've never been able to find that irony in the text.
(One of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights seemed to think the same thing, and wrote a sequel called The Tamer Tamed: Petruchio's second wife turns the tables on him.)
Not much irony in this production either; it's played straight. The cast is, as usual, first-rate, although Frances Barber is sometimes a little too shrill as Kate; granted the character is described repeatedly as a shrew, but there's shrewishness that's funny and shrewishness that's just unpleasant.
The other odd thing about the play is the appearance and disappearance of the "framing story" involving Christopher Sly. Shakespeare sets it up and then abandons it after a couple of scenes. Another play from the period provides a few other scenes with Sly, including an epilogue that neatly ties up the loose ends. Many recent productions, if they include the framing story at all, add these scenes. I suspect they were written by Shakespeare and intended to be part of the play, but Arkangel sticks to their guns (and their stated purpose) and omits them.
Not one of the more satisfying entries in the series, but the fault is mostly Shakespeare's.
"A delight"
Eugene Onegin is a "novel in verse - the whole of it written in a series of 14-line verses with an unusually complex rhyme scheme. Falen's translation tries to reproduce the scheme in English. This isn't an easy task - English being notoriously short on rhymes - but he succeeds to an extent I wouldn't have thought possible. The syntax isn't distorted, and the rhymes click into place reliably and gracefully.
The rhymes are a big part of the pleasure of listening to this (although Raphael Corkhill's narration sometimes emphasizes line endings more than I would have preferred). Even if you don't try to explicitly follow the scheme, you will begin to intuit it and eagerly anticipate the next rhyme. That this doesn't distract from comprehension of the story testifies to the clarity and lucid simplicity of both story and verse.
It's a straightforward, sad story about friendship, love, loss, and regret. I'd read it years ago for a literature class, but I think the translation was a dud; it didn't make much of an impression. This time around, the novel was a pure delight.
If you give it a try, watch for the almost psychedelic description of a young woman's nightmare.
"Clear and engaging"
Professor Desan is a clear and engaging guide to this crucial period of European history. It's a bit unusual for a book or course to cover both the Revolution and Napoleon, but it's hard to argue with the results as she traces the cause and effect relationships. My interest is only partly historical; I was looking also for something that would help fill in the context for the political and military struggles that play such a major role in 19th century European fiction. (Not to mention Richard Sharpe and Jack Aubrey.) This does that beautifully.
"Another beauty"
Everything I said about Stevens' reading of The Iliad is true for this one, and then some. It's a nearly perfect marriage of translator and narrator. (Homer's not half bad either.)
The structure of The Odyssey is a wonder: multiple layers, multiple points of view, all of it flowing forth effortlessly.
Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey was my first contact with Homer. There are other translations that are more accurate, on a line by line basis; but few that throw off as many sparks of compact beauty.
"Ideas, not people"
Bart Ehrman is spot on as usual. The advantage of listening to his lectures rather than to someone else narrating his book is hearing the author's own voice. Ehrman is enthusiastic and engaging; he sounds like he's speaking off the cuff rather than reading a script; and he's able to present complex material in a clear and systematic way. It's important to note, however, that this lecture series is a history of early Christian IDEAS rather than early Christian people. There are a number of people discussed, of course - people like Tertullian, Ignatius, and Origen - but the lectures are far more topical than chronological.
"What a dynamo!"
My interest in Napoleon was sparked a few years ago by the adventures of Richard Sharpe and the Aubrey/Maturin series. After re-reading War and Peace, I decided I had to learn more about the background. Since then, I've listened to a number of audiobooks about Napoleon (a surprising number of them narrated by John Lee).
I had also previously read Andrew Roberts' history of the Second World War, The Storm of War, and was impressed by his writing and the organization of the narrative. The same qualities are in evidence here. We follow Napoleon from his early days on Corsica to military school in France, to Italy, to Egypt, to Spain, and to Russia. The whole of Europe became his battlefield.
As in The Storm of War, Roberts includes a generous helping of political history too. Napoleon scattered constitutions around Europe like travel brochures. He codified and exported laws that embodied at least some of the ideals of the French Revolution. (Roberts, however, notes that the liberal tendencies of the famed Napoleonic code were blunted by its persistent sexism: all men might be equal under the law, but women need not apply.)
The man himself was an interesting combination of engaging and repellent traits. He was a bully, certainly - and a butcher - but he also had an insatiable thirst for knowledge: if a dinner guest had specialized knowledge, he would pepper him with questions and take notes. He was never afraid to say "I don't know" in response to a particular question; but he would always try to find out. He was always in motion. He consumed his meals in 10 minutes, and his lovemaking was likely to be equally hurried.
Napoleon's spectacular rise is matched by his equally spectacular fall. His story has an inherently dramatic shape, and that comes through in this mostly chronological account.
John Lee is, as always, a rapid and enthusiastic narrator. And also as always with this type of material on audio, I found myself reaching for supplementary maps and diagrams in Wikipedia. I do wish PDF supplements were standard for this type of book on Audible, and that they were easily accessible through the mobile app.
"Great storyteller"
Donald MG Sutherland is a great storyteller, although his voice is a bit unprepossessing. He takes us step by step through Napoleon's career, from the island of Corsica to the island of St Helena. The military and political campaigns are described clearly (although I have to admit I'm still a little foggy about the various German and Austrian campaigns). If you want a good overview of Napoleon before digging deeper into some of the other audiobooks on the subject, this is a good place to begin.
"Doesn't like Napoleon very much"
Paul Johnson is a trenchant critic of dictators in general and Napoleon in particular. I'm reading other, more favorably disposed, biographies at the same time; Johnson is a useful corrective. The man who brought the ideals of the French Revolution to much of the continent of Europe was also the man who repeatedly deserted his troops in a crisis and was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of millions.
John Lee gives his usual clear and energetic interpretation. He seems to have become the go-to guy for biographies of Napoleon.


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Can I run V Breaks still on this frame?? I have a new triple XT Group and was hoping to throw this on this frame? Thoughts?
Adam D
AB, This is a disc only frame. You could use the triple XT group on there, but not the Canti brakes.
Is this for a 27.5 wheel?
Jimmy Garcia
No this is the 26"
Jan S.
I read that you can run 27.5 wheels
Best HT ever!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I love my Chameleon very much!
Lexi Dowdall
Fresh tracks!
Best 26" Hardtail Frame on the Market
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
To echo the sentiments of many riders, this bike does, actually, live up to its name. Had one of these built up with a 120mm fork and used it for some pretty irresponsible gravity-type riding, jumping, dropping, etc., and it was always perfectly comfortable and controllable. Then, a few months into the summer, swapped out the fork for one with 100mm of travel, along with a lighter wheelset and longer stem/narrower bars, and suddenly it was a climb-crushing XC machine. As per many of Santa Cruz's models, it is also uncanny in its stability on descents, regardless of how it's built up. Simply a fantastic all-around frameset.
Lexi Dowdall
Uhhhhhh - this is AMAZING!
Gang Green
It's my go-to bike for cross-country
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I put together a chameleon from spare parts and a gang-green frame. It is smooth and quiet and very light. I don't get bottom bracket creaking like other aluminum frames I've had. I run V-brakes and appreciate the bosses. Mt frame is pre-eccentric BB, and I ride one size up...I'm 6'1 and have the large.
Andrew McKee
Fun bike that does it all
The Chameleon lives up to its name. Depending on personal preference and build, this bike can lean toward dirt jumper or trail rider, or somewhere in between. If you are looking to have one bike to wear a lot of different hats, then this is a great choice. I only wish it was offered in steel for a more forgiving ride.


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