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@emptybe-er: Yes, I have. You ideally want to use Jagwire's newer thinner bendier hosing for certain parts of the line. To those sounding off. I'm not stating this is my favourite system, nor is it the best. I'm saying you ignore worse issues for 99% of things you encounter, as you don't know better or just don't work on that part of the bike. Meanwhile, this rotten mush of a horse is still getting beaten on every article that's even somewhat adjacent to the topic. This is way too much energy for what amounts to essentially a non-issue, especially as [i]you don't need to buy a bike with this system.[/i] Can we please start laying it to rest?

@sweatyseagull: Blur indeed does not have internal sleeves. SC skipped on the Blur for weight savings. Makes perfect sense, and most of us would find complaining about it to be a little strange. It's how I view this issue. @silvanoe: You'll have to explain how someone adding in relevant experience is entitlement, as I don't follow.

@Paco77: This is a silly thing to think. The bearing is covered, just like a normal bearing, and normal headsets are not even remotely water-tight. It will not corrode at an accelerated rate, and water permeation is not normally what causes headset wear, as they do have a retaining seal.

@mior: I work on a looooooooot of bikes, that one is just an example to me. There's literally thousands of bikes currently on the market that are vastly worse to work on than this, I promise you. Nobody says boo about them as it isn't the current trending joke. You don't need to remove the brake hose for most headset work, just bearing replacements. I'd imagine you'd be getting a damn few years of swapping bearings prior to the hose becoming so short that it needs replacement. It just isn't a very realistic complaint. @brianpark: Yeah I love me some Rocky. I'll stand by the fact I'm fine with owning a bike that may be a bit harder to work on if it is legitimately better. There's a lot more to a bike than routing style. All in all. I actually own one of those Sparks and find it a breeze to work on. I love that the DT has a giant hole in it, as it allows me to easily and quickly access cables going through. The shock can get pulled off in a minute, I literally had one in my stand ten minutes ago to take the shock off. Please, people, work on this stuff before having strong opinions on it. It's a weird hypocritical standard that we're pushing. You're all ignoring mechanical design issues daily, while shitting on something designed well. Come onnnnnn.

Guy that works on Scotts here. There's so many worse bikes to work on compared to the Spark. Any brand not doing enclosed internal tubing, for example, is more annoying to deal with. Santa Cruz Blur, for example, is more annoying to route than a headset Scott. I never heard anyone complain about how annoying it was to remove the shock on a few previous model year Rocky Mountains. Stop parroting opinions, actually work on this stuff and see how it it; it's very easy. But hey, this is just a dude who gets paid to work on this stuff. Surely the armchair mechanics are right on this one.