New Addict Gravel
57mm of tyre clearance, a frame from 794 grams. Five builds, from £2,499 to £7,999.
A road bike's pace, a mountain bike's tyres
Scott have not given the Addict Gravel a facelift, they have redrawn it. The frame is lighter and the clearance is wider. It is still quick enough to hold a wheel on tarmac and is happy when the tarmac runs out.
Four things worth knowing
57mm of clearance
Up from 45mm
Wide enough for a 2.2in mountain bike tyre, which is not a spec sheet curiosity in this part of the world. Every build ships on 50mm Schwalbe G-One RX Pro, and there is room above that when the route deserves it.
Compliance in the carbon
Scott claim 30 per cent at the front, 60 at the rear
The fork legs bow, the steerer is down to 27.2mm and the cockpit is new. Scott put that at about 30 per cent more give at the front. At the back a thinned seat tube and dropped seatstays designed to flex give them a figure of around 60 per cent more, measured with the rigid seatpost. There is no suspension and nothing to maintain. It is the frame moving where it should.
Geometry for hour four
Taller, longer, calmer
Stack is 10mm higher and reach 10mm longer, with the cockpit shortened by 10mm so your hands end up where they were. The fork rake has grown to 60mm to keep the steering honest with a bigger tyre. The result is a bike that settles down on a loose descent instead of arguing with you.
Somewhere to put things
Storage and mounts, done properly
There is hidden storage inside the down tube and in the bar ends, so a tube, a multi-tool and a plug kit stop living in your jersey. The bottle mounts sit on the inner faces of the fork legs, close to the steering axis, which Scott say cuts the inertia of a loaded fork by about 35 per cent. They take the Syncros fork mount brackets, up to a kilo a side. A replaceable UDH hanger means any shop in the country can put it right.
What the new frame actually gained
Five builds, one frame shape
The numbers are build levels and lower means higher. Premium and 10 run the 794 gram HMX frame, the 20, 30 and 40 run HMF at 990 grams. Every one of them clears 57mm and ships on 50mm tyres.
- HMX carbon frame, 794g
- Fulcrum Sharq GR Cult carbon
- 13 speed, 10-46, power meter
- HMX carbon frame, 794g
- Fulcrum Soniq GR carbon
- 13 speed, 10-46, power meter
- HMF carbon frame, 990g
- Fulcrum Soniq GR carbon
- 13 speed, 10-46, power meter
- HMF carbon frame, 990g
- Syncros Capital GR 35 carbon
- 13 speed, 10-46, wireless
- HMF carbon frame, 990g
- Syncros Capital GR 25 alloy
- 12 speed, 11-45, mechanical
The 20 shares its groupset and its wheels with the 10. If you want to talk through builds, sizing or a bike fit before you commit, ring us on 0141 552 0841, email sales@billybilslandcycles.co.uk, or come into the shop at 176 Saltmarket. Every bike is built and checked by our mechanics before it leaves, and all full price bikes come with free delivery and 0% finance options.
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