Scott’s head office is in Switzerland, so it seemed appropriate that we tested the Big Ed fat bike at the Snow Bike Festival in Gstaad.
For the Big Ed, Scott uses an alloy frame and a double crankset, keeping cost down despite the Bluto suspension fork up front. The downside of this is that it’s a hefty beast, tipping the scales at 15.5kg in size XL.
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For our snow racing test, we'd have preferred to swap out the Bluto suspension fork
That fork is very linear and unsupportive compared with most (non-fat) trail forks. This means the remote lockout supplied with the Big Ed was a useful tool for racing and riding, as it otherwise bobs wildly when pedalling out of the saddle.
Left open with the rebound a touch slower than normal, it does a good job of damping the bounce that can otherwise plague fat bike tyres. But suspension isn’t really necessary for racing on snow, and so for our test environment we'd have preferred to save a kilo or so with a rigid fork.
Roomy ride
An unwelcome tyre change
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