That bike, though shorter-travel and lighter than the Unplugged, had immoderate of the aforesaid features. Most obviously, a daze competely housed wrong the frame. Since Scott came connected board, you mightiness person besides seen the Spark and Genius besides spell down a akin route. However, determination is 1 large quality successful that the Bold bikes clasp their shocks horizontally. This low-slung mounting means that they tin payment from a ample station insertion depth.

This motorcycle has 160 mm of rear question and is paired to a 170 mm fork, and is made of the aforesaid HMX c that you'll find connected different Scott bikes. The frame's suspension plan is referred to arsenic Internal Suspension Technology Virtual Pivot, oregon IST VP, which focuses connected keeping the framework value low. The main pivot rotates astir the bottommost bracket, and the three-piece little assembly has a yoke that drives the rear portion of the daze wrong the frame. Ensuring the close preload connected this assembly is captious and requires a peculiar instrumentality that comes with the bike.

Bold's plan hopes to marque accessing the daze casual capable to not enactment disconnected those wary of over-complicated design. In immoderate ways, they've done a bully occupation of placating those concerns with a button-operated hatch that opens up to uncover the caput of the shock. From there, you tin entree the compression and rebound adjustment, arsenic good arsenic the valve to pump the daze up. The daze successful the framework is simply a modified Fox DPX2.

Frame Details

There is a lot to speech astir with the Bold. Let's commencement with the beforehand of the bike.

The motorcycle uses a one-piece Syncros Hixon c barroom and stem. The bike's cables are each routed done the headset, but erstwhile the daze is successful the framework that's hardly surprising. While that mightiness good enactment disconnected riders who privation relation implicit form, the adjustable headset should recapture their attention. The Syncros space set headset has 2 integrative cups that, depending connected their orientation, tin connection 1-degree of adjustment. There is besides a flip-chip connected the precocious enactment of the rear triangle to marque smaller adjustments to the geometry, astir 0.3 of a grade to the caput space and 8 mm to the BB height. That flip spot is housed wrong a secondary, larger chip, which tin set the framework betwixt 29" and 27.5" rear wheels. For a framework that screams "gimmick" successful 1 breath, determination are a batch of reassuring and pragmatic features mentioned successful the next.

Should you bask spiting Mike Levy from afar, and actively bask utilizing climbing switches connected your shock, Bold has you covered too, albeit successful a somewhat much convoluted manner. With the daze housed wrong the frame, the lone mode to set it connected the alert would beryllium a distant lever, and that's precisely what you get. The remote, which thankfully avoids the pitfalls of Scott's tri-lock system, has 3 positions. It not lone adjusts compression but besides aerial measurement which tin efficaciously supply geometry arsenic good arsenic suspension adjustment.

The framework besides features a Save the Day Kit. This is simply a full sleeve that slides retired the daze door. On there, you person beauteous overmuch everything you request for trail-side fixes. There is besides a instrumentality located connected the wrong of the door. and Bold has besides included a instrumentality that doubles up arsenic a lever connected the rear axle for speedy adjustments. The rear axle instrumentality features a T25, T30, and 6 mm Allen key. All of the Bold-made hardware uses the Torx system, however, connected what is an costly bolt it would beryllium bully if they'd swapped retired immoderate allen cardinal fits connected the cockpit to besides autumn wrong the aforesaid household of fittings.

There is besides a discrete concatenation instrumentality and plentifulness of slap extortion to hopefully support your concatenation connected and quiet, irrespective of what you're riding. Both bikes successful the scope usage AXS shifting, and this framework isn't compatible with a modular mechanical derailleur arsenic it has obscurity to location the cables.

Geometry

The geometry of the Bold is rather aggressive, and not conscionable successful the astir evident ways. Normally, erstwhile we're talking astir caller bikes we absorption connected the caput angle, and though it tin beryllium arsenic slack arsenic 63.2 degrees it's not the fig that jumps retired to me. In fact, the fig that catches my oculus is the 644 mm stack connected the large, which is combined with a 25 mm emergence barroom successful that size. This is comparatively precocious and erstwhile coupled with the shorter-than-some rear extremity of 437 mm it's apt going to beryllium a motorcycle that is precise blessed to value the rear wheel, portion besides going to springiness the rider plentifulness of accidental to scoop up the precocious beforehand end.

That ample stack fig is besides paired with a agelong scope figure. For small, medium, ample and extra-large, the scope goes 425, 460, 490 and 520mm respectively. Although these figures are rather large, acknowledgment to that precocious front, the effectual apical conduit is comparatively mediate of the roadworthy successful respect to its sizing. The spot conduit space is besides fixed arsenic 77.8 degrees. This is rather connected inclination for an enduro motorcycle though the geometry illustration doesn't stipulate what BB mode that's moving in. It's besides worthy noting that this motorcycle uses the aforesaid daze exertion recovered connected the latest procreation of Scott bikes. What this means is that arsenic you click up the compression mounting betwixt open, traction and closed distant settings, you'll besides beryllium adjusting the measurement of the aerial shock, meaning that it should thrust higher successful its question and support the spot conduit space steeper still.

Going betwixt instrumentality sizes, Bold does a large occupation of keeping it accordant with lone 1 oregon 2 dimensions changing, and erstwhile they bash it's by arsenic small arsenic a millimeter.

Models & Pricing

Frames are disposable successful 2 colorways and merchantability for $5,999 USD.

Initial Impressions

The Bold offers a batch for an enduro bike. The interior shock, high-grade low-weight carbon, and assertive angles surely captured my attention. While I've lone spent a fewer weeks connected the motorcycle arsenic Squamish wakes up from winter, immoderate things are precise apparent. Firstly, owed to the precocious front, agelong reach, and short-ish rear center, it feels arsenic if determination is rather a batch of motorcycle successful beforehand of you. Naturally, that lends itself much to steep trails than flatter ones.

The suspension seems to connection a comparatively middle-of-the-road feel. It's somewhat disappointing to not consciousness a spot amended tiny bump sensitivity successful the unfastened mode, particularly considering you person the enactment to temper the shock's sensitivity connected the fly. Riding it, it decidedly seems to beryllium a motorcycle that's much astatine location cruising connected occurrence roads than scrambling up method singletrack - which is precise antithetic to the Linkin 150 that offered heaps of traction. That said, I'm going to instrumentality the adjacent fewer rides to research setup to spot if I tin negate this issue.

When carving done steep turns, however, the Bold comes alive. It's hard to ideate halfway upland motorcycle riders ever looking astatine a motorcycle with afloat interior everything arsenic assertive oregon retired determination - but the Bold is conscionable that, and offers geometry that volition marque you consciousness astatine location erstwhile you're riding steep committing trails.

I look guardant to reviewing this motorcycle successful afloat successful the coming months.