- SCOTT recently redesigned their very popular and
versatile trail bike the Genius and
this is the brand new E Genius.
Let's take a first look.
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So the brand new Genius had a full new design,
full new frame layout.
If you see the E Genius looks very similar.
So this shock now mounts vertically down towards
the bottom bracket, the old Genius it
was up at the top tube.
SCOTT really tried to keep the same geometry
as close as possible at least and suspension forms
between the non motorised and the motorised bikes.
150 mil travel on this bike front and rear and
it's also got that safe feature of bein able to
swap out 27.5 and 29 inch wheels really easily and
then all you need to do is flip this chip in that
linkage to make sure the BB height is almost
identical between the two wheel sizes.
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So this bike is now powered by the Shimano steps
E8000 system really light compact mountain
bike specific motor and battery.
So the battery's mounted inside that down tube.
So really well integrated.
You've got these plastic covers just make sure
everythin looks really nice and neat.
It's almost much smaller than the Bosch systems
it means SCOTT have actually shaved three centimetres
off that chain (mumbles) length to make sure
it feels much more like the normal genius.
It's 500 watts per hour this thing it puts
out a peak power of 250 watts.
So the Shimano step system has this compact
display up on the bar.
It gives you all the information about battery levels,
speed, but also it's integrated with this Shimano XTDI2
11 speed gear system you've got on here.
So it gives you all that information
about your gears as well.
The one battery powers everything on here and
you also use this left hand shifter so it's very much
like the DI2 gear shifter to switch through your modes.
At the moment it's OFF.
It can then go up to ECO, TRAIL, then BOOST.
Nice little touches they're colour coded.
Means they can keep that display nice and small
and you can see on the move what mode you're actually in.
The three levels of pedal assist also customizable
using Shimano's E-TUBE app on your phone.
So you choose just how much boost or pedal assist
or say they're giving you.
You can also set up your DI2 gears so choose how
fast those gears shift, how many gears you can shift
in one go if you keep your thumb on that paddle,
and also the orientation of those paddles
and what they do on the rear.
So let's take a look at the rest of the controls.
You've got this FOX dropper post remote
on the right hand side.
You've got Shimano Z breaks so downhill breaks,
203 rotors front and rear so big breaks four parts.
You need those big breaks for a bike like this.
Also you've got this SCOTT Twinloc system so,
the moment it's in fully open so it's 150 mil travel,
go halfway that's 110 they call that traction,
that's really good it keeps your BB high,
great for pedalling these bikes as you will do
uphill trying to keep that bottom bracket higher.
It also firms up that suspension as well so
changes the spring curve and then always
full lock out for those really smooth fire roads or
roads for maximum efficient pedalling.
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another nice touch is this integrated speed sensor
that's actually built into that rear disc mount
so normally you have that old school sort of
magnet on the spoke that can get moved and
they spin round and they picked up by another
sensor that's somewhere on your chain stay so this
is really nice integrated into the bike.
So how does the geometry compare to the old E Genius?
Well the bottom bracket is lower,
like I mentioned before, the chain stays are three
centimetres shorter, head angle is two degrees slacker
and the seat angle is actually one and a half degrees
steeper keep you in that nicer climbing position.
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so goin downhill the bike feels really planted
obviously like E bikes they've got a lot of weight.
So actually it makes suspension feel really good,
all that sprung mass.
Can tell the suspension is actually a lot more like
that new Genius so nice and supple to begin
with and more progressive at the end.
Also got a lot of grip in these 2.8 inch tyres.
I've also got that display on the bars shows me
when I'm pedalling there's a bar graph shows me
exactly how much power I'm puttin through the pedals
so also how much assist I'm getting from the battery.
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so there's our first look at SCOTT's brand new E Genius.
Definitely a few stand out features for me.
It's great havin the Twinloc especially when
you're peddalin up technical sections as you do on
E Bikes stick it in that middle system so the traction
control part just keep that BB up.
That Shimano system's really good nice to have
that compact system.
Also the versatility of actually bein able to swap
the wheels.
Nice little touch I can actually fit a bottle
cage in this bike.
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