Is This Just A Gravel Bike? - Scott Scale RC

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[@AndrewOliverHome]

I love light weight XC bikes. If I had to reduce my bike collection (from 11) to one, it would be an XC race bike.

[@tonyjmcd]

Love Jimmy's disclaimer for the sponsored videos

[@laurentlandry9732]

I built myself a flat bar gravel bike this year because had to much tension in my back with a drop bar. I am loving the new position, the control and the looks. Very happy with my decision. Gravel was much better with a flat bar in my opinion.

[@globeRM]

I've always enjoyed your content... but lately they've gotten even better!

[@PassOnPassion]

I have a Scott Scale RC, roughly 20-21lb. I love it. Where I'm from there are trails and paved roads, so a gravel bike doesn't make sense here. The Scale obviously isn't as fast as a road/gravel bike on paved roads, but it can hold it's own and is a blast on the dirt.

[@paullinnitt5450]

No. Gravel bikes are just hardtail Mountain bikes with less suitable handlebars.

[@ixismg]

I’m really liking the versatility of this setup. I recently picked up a Marin DSX FS and it’s increasingly brilliant as the miles stack up, on and off road.

[@josh33172]

When I do gravel events here in Belgium, they're almost always in the Ardennes, and the best gravel bike is a HT MTB as it typically gets far more saucy for your 40c or even 50c tires. My bike is an Ibis T29 with some custom Duke/DT Swiss wheels XO1 and Rockshox SID Ultimate, but 120 because I still ride singletrack. I do have a lockout instead of a dropper. The party trick for the T29 is that it can be single speed or geared, but also the rear triangle fully unbolts from the front triangle and fits into a Ritchey Break-away/S&S travel case. Works great if you do a tour somewhere else that you use the fast rail like Eurorail to get where you want to go.

[@marco916]

Absolute nice looking bike! Do you going with the MTB for a fitting session as well? I'm so interested what James can tell us about MTB & Bike Fitting

[@camlunt120]

Francis just want to say thank you for getting me into road cycling, since coming across your videos a few years ago I’ve loved this sport ever since so thank you for that. Keep up the good work love the videos

[@davecech4741]

My hardtail IS my gravel bike, and yes, it has a dropper. With 2.3 tires, it is definitely at a disadvantage on tarmac, but I'll take that trade off to enjoy the singletracks more.

[@redauwg911]

thank you for the video Francis great to see Jimmy working hard

[@petertreadway]

I've literally just today finished converting a flat bar hybrid to a drop bar gravel and it's weighing in at 12.6kgs! Im going to swap the ally fork out for a carbon one, which will bring the weight down a little but she's still a hefty girl! Looking forward to getting out on her.

[@jayb.6685]

I love light weight xc hardtails. But soon people might be calling them flat bar gravel bikes.

[@jamesdoughty7914]

Excellent and informative as always, hope you’re doing okay with everything Francis!

[@Bu5t3R]

Love it. I’m pretty sure there is a man who races XC and Gravel that uses one bike for both and just swaps cockpit, fork and other bits. Used wireless so it’s mostly straightforward.

[@roberttindall1203]

Looking forward to the next video in this series, I wrestled with this debate recently and went for a Specialized Epic HT to give clear water bewteen my Tarmac, fingers crossed I made the right decision 😃

[@filipe.portes]

Nice looking bike!! And there is no a single bit o doubt that this beauty will crush any gravel bike

[@treeof611]

Scott gang! welcome to the club! The Scale* is such a good XC race bike.

[@Mr229357]

Finally a proper bike, love hard tails. Nice bike 😊👍🏻👍🏻