Transition Bikes Announce Scout Carbon
The Scout has been one of our more overlooked bikes in our line. People are now just starting to catch on to how fun and capable this little bike is and now it's available in carbon. Touting all the great features and geometry of the aluminum Scout with a large reduction in weight and no compromise in strength. The carbon front triangle, seatstays and chainstays provide an amazingly playful feel on the trail or playground. Featuring the same dialed geometry and GiddyUp suspension as the alloy version, the carbon Scout is even better at turning trails into playgrounds. The fully guided internal cable routing for rear brake and derailleur are easy to use and rattle free. The collet main pivot keeps the rear end stiff and the threaded bottom bracket is a mechanics dream. All with around a 600 gram weight savings over the aluminum Scout.
Transition Scout 1 Details
• Not 27.5+ compatible. Fits up to 2.5" tire with plenty of clearance for mud.
• Playground Specific Geometry - Long, Low and Snappy
• Giddy Up Link Suspension, 125mm Rear and 140mm Front
• Integrated Rubber Chainstay Protection
• Collet Style Main Pivot Hardware
• ISCG05 Chainguide Mounting
• Full Size Water Bottle Fits Inside Front Triangle
• User Friendly 73mm Threaded Bottom Bracket
• Tubes Inside Tubes Internal Cable Routing for Easy Setup
• Medium Frame Weight With Rear Shock: 6.2lbs.
• Frameset MSRP: $2999 USD, complete bikes starting at $5099 USD
• www.transitionbikes.com, @TransitionBikeCompany
• Not 27.5+ compatible. Fits up to 2.5" tire with plenty of clearance for mud.
• Playground Specific Geometry - Long, Low and Snappy
• Giddy Up Link Suspension, 125mm Rear and 140mm Front
• Integrated Rubber Chainstay Protection
• Collet Style Main Pivot Hardware
• ISCG05 Chainguide Mounting
• Full Size Water Bottle Fits Inside Front Triangle
• User Friendly 73mm Threaded Bottom Bracket
• Tubes Inside Tubes Internal Cable Routing for Easy Setup
• Medium Frame Weight With Rear Shock: 6.2lbs.
• Frameset MSRP: $2999 USD, complete bikes starting at $5099 USD
• www.transitionbikes.com, @TransitionBikeCompany
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Been waiting for this release
I'm intrigued, do tell
Or it will OVERFLOW travel amount like a BEERFUL glass added a little bit of BEER ?
Not 27.5plus compatible
Transition f****** rules
explains why they don't make the suppressor any more
The only downside of the alu scout was the weight. That'll be sorted with this one.
Santa Cruz are a bit common now in the UK. I see more SC out that even specialized now...
Starting to regret that Republican nomination?
Just look at what happened in the fallout of Brexit - for loads of the politicians, it was never about leaving or remaining. It was about career. The demographic here are rarely listened to too.
Even more reason to ride a carbon Scout like you stole it I imagine.
Having said all that - and again going back to all that you left out (interventionist foreign policy, some of her donors etc), she STILL has to be seen as the lesser of evils. Trump is running a campaign that is openly appealing to the deep currents of prejudice in the US, openly calling for much greater military involvement in other countries, has received funds from ex-KKK leaders etc. At least Clinton spins it. And is more moderate. And isn't so thin skinned and reactionary.
By the way - this is not me looking down on your choices, at all. We're in a mess too. We're just in a much softer Right mess than you will be if Trump gets in. And I know this isn't an exhaustive examination of either.
The Scout in grey is looking better with time.
I would not trade in my 160mm travel for this bike, why would someone do that?
But to suggest the banning and banishing of all Muslims due to terrorism, is. As is the suggestion that all Mexicans are thieves and rapists. It's prejudice, plain and simple. Open and unabashed. Those are facts, too.
Let's not get on to the 160mm vs 125mm subject again - we differ on that point.
1.lie about the price of the new bike:
- I got it on a deal, over 30% off
- I wrote sone stuff on the internet and they got me on their test rider program so I got it 50% off
2.lie about how much you got for your old bike
- I sold a lot of old parts, so I spend almost no money on the new bike
- thisfork Ibought last winter didn'tdrop in price at all
3.Lie why you need a new bike:
- frame cracked
- wheels are getting old and need to be replaced from safety reasons. Aging of aluminium. You know Honey, those new wheels cost a lot, it's not worth to sell them and buy new ones, it's cheaper to buy a whole new bike
- i need a race bike with race geometry to take part in races/ I am gettingpains from that race bike, I need amore relaxed geo and I don't race anymore
Why the hell a wife should ever have a connection to the man's things!?
Expensive, but no ear ache!
Ahahahahaha
Same build using Kit 2 according to there site, has a difference of 1.2 pounds for the Lg.-frame; with a price difference of $1,100.00.
Is it worth the extra cost for the carbon frame? The carbon is beautiful!!
No, I need AT LEAST 160mm, better 180mm to be plush and no bottom out.
I'm 86kg
125mm rear IS NOT ENOUGH. I already had 127 once...will never back to it.
Well, but whatever: I'm not going to buy it anyway for this price.
Seems you got downvoted because of "I guess it accepts 26" wheels too"
I'm thinking of Devinci Wilson frame or Santa Cruz Nomad 2(there some delas acceptable price for previous years models)
But they all has short headtube
I'm 182cm. ~87 inseem
Need to ride through the city to the park, and will be riding 100% ass up. Don't like it.
Glad for you!
But as for me the travel is never enough.(may be around 180-200)
That does not mean I must
I like more than 160mm rear travel...and I'm not a downhiller.
A stupid term "playful bike" is used usually when there is no stoking travel numbers but it is required to tell something that will at least somehow attract the potential consumer.
Those guys on video are so professional that will ride the same high grade fine lines and tricks even WITHOUT THE SUSPENSION.
The Scout made my Santa Cruz feel dead and flat, so I sold both of them. I've owned a lot of bikes and this is my favorite I've ever had, so much so that I've considered a second just to have for when the first needs repair(I cracked a chainstay).
So, maybe it's a "marketing term", or it holds some truth, and the bike really is a lot of fun to rip around on
>" I'm over 95kg and I ride very aggressive and haven't bottomed it out(at least that I've noticed)"
> "when the first needs repair(I cracked a chainstay)."
I'm silent as an ice.
In reality, every single kind of a bike can teach you something as well as generate some bad habits. It is just a tool. Almost any bike is playful, since if you have the skills you can play with it. Average BMXer can play with a fatbike much more than I ever will on a DJ bike.
Absolutely.
Seems just a niche(if any) product.
"...and being that's nobody has commented on your ridiculous post"
Dude, how about the fact that you DID COMMENTED IT ?
His post is a true: bike is boring, nothing interesting in it. And the price is the same crazy.
However, this bike is not bad. Nobody call it bad.
Just boring.
When I'm on pinkbike seeing a review of the noew bike model I highly expect A DAMN FURTHER IMPROVMNETS WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
It is PINKBIKE! PINK f*ckING BIKE DOT COM!
Instead of it I see here a 125mm of PLAYFUL travel....a carbon frame, chainstay of which has been already cracked by a guy @GlassGuy above "(I cracked a chainstay)."
Well, after that it's nothing to say besides MAKE THE BIKE GREAT AGAIN!