Scott’s longstanding Spark range saw a radical overhaul for the 2017 model year, primarily with the aim of giving cross-country team riders Nino Schurter and Jenny Rissveds a solid crack at gold in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
As history proved, that turned out extremely well, with both of them ending up on top of the podium and showering Scott's new bike in instant glory. However, cross-country racing isn’t the sole focus of the new Spark. For anyone that gets their pleasure from laps with friends rather than lactic acid you’d do well to look beyond the 29er wheeled race bikes in the range and take a good hard look at this 27 Plus tyred model instead.
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While it shares the same frame layout and suspension design of the rest of the Spark range, this bike is built from the ground up to use mid-fat rubber. It also sports 130mm of travel up front paired to 120mm at the back.
The frame itself is a masterpiece of design, with the new trunnion mount shock mount now repositioned from the downtube to the bottom bracket area and a pivotless back end which, when combined with some other extremely neat frame features, manages to shave a serious amount of weight from a bike that was already seriously lean.
As you might have guessed from the pictures and price tag, this 700 Tuned is the top-end model of the Plus range and thanks to a bit of help from a kit list that would impress an oligarch, it tips the scales at just 11.4kg. In case that number doesn’t speak for itself and your jaw hasn’t dropped, that’s seriously light for a full suspension bike, nevermind a trail focused Plus one.
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