- Today's bike check is my very own bike,
it's my Scott Genius LT Plus.
Let's take a look at some of the details.
So the model of this bike is the
Scott Genius 700 LT Tuned Plus.
So LT stands for long travel.
This is got 160 mil travel front and rear,
a carbon frame, and the Plus means
it runs Plus sized wheels.
However, you may notice that at the moment,
I've got 29 inch wheels on this bike.
It actually runs the two different sizes,
which I'll go into more later.
So, I've got Fox suspension front and rear,
you've got this Nude Fox shock on the back.
So both air shocks, front and rear.
So you can see this can see this cable
that goes into the shock, and same on the fork
up to that Twinloc lever on the bar.
So I go from fully open, that's descend mode,
to what they call traction control mode,
so somewhere in the middle on both the fork and the shock.
It's fully locked out if I push it again.
I actually find that's really useful.
I've ridden this bike for some pretty long distances
for quite a long travel bike, so it's 160 mil travel.
I've actually done 60, 70 kilometre days on this
and it actually works really well.
So, let's start off up at the bars,
I've got these Ergon GD1 grips,
they come in two different diameters.
I prefer the skinny ones, I quite like thin grips.
Small hands I suppose.
The handlebars are Shimano Pro Carbon Tharsis Trails bars,
I've actually cut these down to 760 mil wide.
One of the really cool features on this bike,
something I've added, is this Shimano Di2 gear end,
so all electric gears.
So I've got this Shimano XTR Di2 shifter,
and the cool thing about that is,
it's internally routed, the cable.
So it actually comes back this way,
slides in a groove underneath that grip,
into a hole, and comes down, pops out the bar
somewhere under here in the stem,
and then actually goes to this display here.
I've got this Shimano Pro stem as well, 50 mil stem.
And the actual battery for the Di2
sits inside the steerer tube,
so all the cables come in here, it's super neat.
You see this one cable goes down into the frame,
that goes back to the rear mech,
but everything else is sort of situated internally
so it's really neat.
Another cool feature about the Di2 gears
is you can actually plug that into your PC
to play around with things, such as,
how fast you want the gears to shift,
how many you can let the paddle actually shift
up and down the block, and actually choose
which paddle shifts which direction.
So it's really customizable as well.
You can also do some indexing from this display.
So, it's pretty cool.
I've actually never used electric gears before,
but it's definitely a nice system.
Expensive, but pretty cool.
Up on the left hand side of the bar.
So, underneath I've got this Twinloc lever,
but also I've got the remote
for my Crank Brothers Highline Dropper.
Just about fit all those things in.
I use the drop remote much more
than I do the Twinloc, so I make sure
that's in the perfect position
and I just rotate the Twinloc round a little bit,
just to make space for that.
So down to the drivetrain, the pedals are
Crank Brothers Mallet E, the LS version,
so that's the long spindles.
I like the pedals to be spaced out a little bit,
just to keep my feet away from the cranks run clip-in.
I also just pull out these pins slightly,
so wind them out so I get a little bit of friction
between my shoe and that pedal.
I pretty much use clips, I would say 95% of the time now.
Shimano XTR cranks.
This is a Plus bike, so everything is boost.
So the front and rear hub spacings are wider,
but also the cranks need to be wider.
So these are the 53 mil chainline version
just to space that.
The crank's out slightly so they pass the chainstays.
We've got this Scott Chainguide, so on the top
and also the one down on the bottom of the chainstay,
just to keep my chain on that chainring, which is 34 tooth.
On the back I've got this 11-46 Shimano XT cassette.
So, again like most of my bikes,
I like to run them 1 X, so this is 1 X 11.
Got that really fancy XTR Di2 rear mech.
Obviously you've got the cable
that runs down through the frame
and I've just put a bit of this protective stuff
where that cable runs underneath the bike,
just in case anything comes up, like a rock,
and smacks into that cable.
So the brakes are Shimano XTR with 180 mil rotors
front and rear.
And to the wheels, these are Reynolds Enduro wheels,
so we've got this carbon fibre rim,
super wide, that's 34 mil wide,
gives you that really nice tyre profile.
Got bladed spokes and they're mounted
to these Industry Nine hubs.
These are the 29 ones like I mentioned.
I've got this Continental Trail King 2.4
29 inch tyres on there.
So I've been running the 29 inch wheels
quite a lot recently, which I find really good
in wet conditions, sort of enduro conditions,
really, really good.
Obviously you get that benefit of the rollover,
super fast at the moment.
The great thing about this bike is it's so versatile.
I can swap back to the Plus tyres, so 27.5 Plus,
and I find they work really well
in hardpack conditions and dry conditions,
they get so much grip, those tyres.
So I've got a Crank Brothers Highline Dropper seatpost
in the 100 mil drop, and an Ergon SME3 M saddle,
fully black, nice and stealth.
Crank Brothers have just released a larger drop post,
it's 160 mil drop, so you can see,
I could probably get away with that,
however, on a 29er bike, I do actually like
my saddle not being too low, because any lower than that,
I find I actually can now sometimes stick my bum
into the rear tyre, so that's low enough for me
on this bike.
With 29 inch wheels, the bike weighs in at 31 pounds.
The bike now has the Plus size wheels in,
so you see much wider tyres, much deeper tyres.
Plus size, it weighs in at 30 pounds.
So, it's lighter with the Plus size
than it is with 29 inch wheels.
The bike is finished off with a Topeak bottle cage
and a GMBN water bottle that you can win
in the Dirt Shed show.
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