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2023 Scott Genius will get a hidden shock for a sleek-yet-aggressive path bike
Nov
Now, the 2023 Genius will get the built-in inner rear shock design with 150mm journey, bumps entrance journey to 160mm, is available in carbon and alloy with “Tremendous Path” spec choices, and improves upon just a few of the Spark’s options. And it loses any 27.5″ wheel choices, it’s all 29er now.
It additionally retains the TwinLoc suspension, providing you with 150mm journey in full open mode, or lowering it to 100mm in Traction mode, with some fashions additionally adjusting fork compression damping in sync with the rear. Right here’s the total story…
2023 Scott Genius tech particulars
The brand new Scott Genius truly makes use of a really comparable single-pivot suspension format because the prior mannequin, it’s simply that they had been capable of transfer the shock a lot decrease within the body by transferring it inside. That provides it a a lot decrease standover top and heart of gravity, and it additionally appears a lot, significantly better.
Fortuitously, it’s additionally very easy to arrange. Simply pop the quilt off the underside and you’ve got entry to the compression and rebound knobs, and the air valve. Notice the froth sleeves across the cables and hoses, conserving the whole lot good and quiet contained in the body.
The quilt plate has a tool-free push-button launch, so you will get to your settings shortly. Cable and hose routing is illustrated on it, too, must you ever have to switch any of them, and a useful air strain information aids in preliminary setup.
A sag and journey indicator on the surface makes it very easy to see in case you’re close to the beneficial 30% sag -and how a lot journey you’re getting- so you already know if additional changes are wanted.
The outer linkage is hooked up to the internal rocker arm that drives the shock with a keyed axle. These, plus outsized bearings and axle measurement, prevents uneven motion and decrease torsional hundreds and lateral flex.
The decrease essential pivot is shielded by the body, however nonetheless retains the pivot placement very broad, additionally aiding torsional and lateral stiffness.
All in all, it’s an exceptionally clear package deal that sits very low.
A port on the seat tube accesses the higher shock mount bolt. The broad open house contained in the body and large opening on the backside makes dropper seatpost routing straightforward, too. Chainstay body safety and a chainguide preserve the whole lot working quiet and on monitor.
Final, Tuned, and 910 fashions get the Syncros Hixon IC built-in bar/stem with size-dependant attain and rise. However, all fashions have built-in, inner routing, even with commonplace bars and stems.
The design permits for simple adjustment of spacer top and steerer size, simply add, subtract, and lower like regular…no have to take away or lower or change any of the cables and hoses.
Which is nice, as a result of the bikes come inventory with a flip-flop headset cap, letting you swap between 75º and 74º head angles, all just by pulling the stem and spacers off and spinning it round. Should you simply wish to change stack top, the spacers break up open and pull off across the steerer tube, so that you don’t even have to drag the bar/stem all the way in which off.
A number of pc mounts are provided to bolt onto the entrance of the bar or exchange the highest cap, the previous being suitable with Ok-Edge’s bolt-on GoPro-style mounts to run a light-weight or motion cam beneath your pc.
The alloy Genius is rad, too
Typically, it looks like an alloy mannequin is included for the only real objective of providing a decrease price model of a well-liked mannequin. Certain, typically they’re hydroformed and formed, however Scott takes that to a different stage with the brand new Genius alloy fashions.
The downtube supplies one instance of the lengths they went to to ship a high-performance body. Proper to left, it goes from an inanimate metallic rode to a shapely, light-weight, extremely finessed completed half.
High-, seat-, and downtubes are made longer than essential, then lower all the way down to measurement based mostly on body measurement, which helps with manufacturing prices.
Routing is inner on the alloy bikes, too, with body guards to forestall metal-on-hose/cable rubbing.
This cutaway reveals extra of the cable routing and the keyed attachment of the higher pivot’s axle. Simply taking a look at this makes me suppose somebody may give you an inner body storage answer that stuffs into the downtube from the shock’s entry port. Simply sayin’…
Fortuitously, this uncooked end is a manufacturing choice for the Genius 940, but it surely received’t get the XTR spec of this staffer’s bike.
Simply two extra pictures to drive dwelling how properly they did with the alloy body. Each characteristic of the carbon bike comes over, from inner routing to sag indicator to pop-off shock cowl. Apart from supplies, they’re equivalent bikes.
Some fashions will get a hybrid carbon/alloy frameset, too. See full fashions and specs at backside of this publish.
Genius vs Genius ST
Me, driving the Genius ST 900 Tuned in Aosta, Italy, for the launch.
The Scott Genius will are available two iterations, each with the identical body and journey, however setup a bit otherwise.
They’re Genius 900, designed as an all-around “Any Path, Any Time” bike, and the Genius ST, or Tremendous Path, for people who focus extra on the descending. The important thing variations are the pinnacle angle and the rear shock, the latter giving the ST fashions quite a lot of additional tunability.
The Genius 900 fashions get:
- Headset in 65º place
- Inline Fox NUDE 5T shock w/ low-speed rebound adjustment
- Forks w/ Low-speed Compression & Rebound knobs
- TwinLoc distant concurrently modifications fork’s compression damper mode
- Full carbon or Full alloy frames
The Genius ST fashions get:
- Headset in 64º place
- Piggyback Fox Float X NUDE shock w/ low-speed compression & rebound changes
- Forks w/ Excessive- and Low-speed compression and rebound knobs
- TwinLoc distant not related to fork
- Full carbon, Absolutely alloy, and blended frames
All carbon fashions ship with an extra 64.5º headset equipment for added geometry tuning.
The brand new dual-travel Fox NUDE 5 shocks
The evolution of the TwinLoc dual-travel rear shocks. Latest fashions on left.
The guts of the TwinLoc suspension is a customized Fox rear shock that enables the bike to trip as if it has two completely different journey settings. And, for the primary time, they developed two completely different NUDE shocks – The NUDE 5T for the usual model of the bike, and a piggyback Float X NUDE for the ST fashions.
The TwinLoc thought is straightforward sufficient. Depart it open for full journey on tough terrain and descents. When it’s time to climb, flip a swap to cut back journey and preserve the rider increased within the stroke for a extra upright, highly effective pedaling place. Push it additional for full lockout when it’s worthwhile to dash.
Small ports enable air to switch from the principle constructive air chamber to the EVOL outer canister.
In actuality, limiting journey solely by the shock presents technical challenges, however the answer is comparatively easy. The air canisters have an outer sleeve that provides a secondary constructive air chamber over the principle air can. The trick right here is that they’ll shut off entry to that chamber.
In full Open mode, that additional chamber is used and the compression damping is broad open, making the suspension plusher and permitting for full journey.
In Traction mode, with the TwinLoc swap pushed midway in, it closes off that outer chamber, lowering whole air quantity. That successfully makes the shock ramp up sooner, so it acts like there’s solely ~100mm journey. Concurrently, the compression damping is adjusted to “Path” mode, making the bike pedal extra effectively, too.
In Lockout mode, the compression damping circuit is just about closed off for a really agency really feel, however not fairly a full lockout.
Proven above, the NUDE 5T (T for path) is an inline shock with no piggyback exterior reservoir. It is rather much like the NUDE 5 shock used within the Spark, however with a bigger outer chamber, giving the Genius a plusher, trail-bike really feel.
The NUDE Float X will get the piggyback and extra whole air quantity and extra tuning choices. The blue quantity spacers might be added to the outer chamber, letting you tune the Open mode with out affecting Path mode. The Orange one is a everlasting quantity spacer, additionally solely affecting Open mode, however is a part of the OEM tuning package deal requested by Scott. Maroon is the underside out bumper.
2023 Scott Genius geometry chart
2023 Scott Genius fashions, specs, weights & pricing
For the carbon frames, there are two variations, the top-end HMX discovered solely on the Genius 900 Final (above) and Genius ST 900 Tuned. The others get a decrease stage HMF carbon fiber entrance triangle with alloy rear swingarms, or the all-alloy body.
Scott says the HMX frameset with all {hardware} (however no shock) weighs 2,295g, and the HMF framesets are 2,795g. No weight is offered for the alloy frames.
Until famous, all bikes get a full Syncros cockpit, together with dropper seatpost. All 900-series bikes get Maxxis Dissector 2.6″ 60tpi tires entrance and rear. The ST fashions swap the entrance for a Minion DHF 2.6″ 120tpi tire, however preserve the identical Dissector rear. All sizes get three bottle cage bolts inside, so you possibly can run an even bigger bottle low within the body, or a smaller one with room for a tube wrap, and many others., beneath it.
Genius 900 Final
- HMX carbon body
- Fox Float 36 Manufacturing unit FIT4 fork
- SRAM XX1 Eagle AXS drivetrain
- Shimano XTR brakes
- Syncros Revelstoke carbon 1.0 wheels w/ TyreWiz
- Value: $11,999.99 (£11,999)
- Claimed weight: 12.8kg (28.22lb)
Genius 910
- HMF carbon entrance, alloy rear
- Fox Float 36 Efficiency Elite FIT4 fork
- SRAM GX Eagle AXS drivetrain
- Shimano XT brakes
- Syncros Revelstoke 1.5
- Value: $7,599.99 (£7,499)
- Claimed weight: 14.1kg (31.09lb)
Genius 920
- HMF carbon entrance, alloy rear
- Fox Float 36 Rhythm Air GRIP fork
- Shimano XT/SLX/Deore combined drivetrain
- Shimano Deore brakes
- Syncros alloy rims w/ Method CL hubs
- Value: $4,999.99 (£4,999)
- Claimed weight: 14.8kg (32.63lb)
Genius 930
- 6061 alloy body
- Fox Float 36 Rhythm Air GRIP fork
- Shimano XT/Deore combine w/ Praxis cranks
- SRAM DB8 brakes
- Syncros alloy rims w/ Method CL hubs
- Value: $4,499.99 (£4,499)
- Claimed weight: 15.5kg (34.17lb)
Genius 940
- 6061 alloy body
- Marzocchi Z2 Air Rail fork
- X-Fusion NUDE 5 RLX shock (not FOX)
- SRAM NX/SX Eagle combined drivetrain
- Shimano MT501 brakes
- Syncros alloy rims w/ Method CL hubs
- Value: $3,799.99 (£3,799)
- Claimed weight: 15.8kg (34.83lb) – with tubes, all others tubeless
Genius ST 900 Tuned
- HMX carbon body
- Fox 36 Float Manufacturing unit GRIP 2 Air
- SRAM X01/GX AXS drivetrain
- Shimano XTR brakes
- Syncros Revelstoke 1.0 carbon wheels
- Value: $10,999.99 (£10,999)
- Claimed weight: 13.3kg (29.32lb)
- Frameset w/ fork: $5,699.99
Genius ST 910
- HMF carbon entrance with alloy rear
- Ohlins RXF36 m.2 Air fork
- SRAM GX AXS drivetrain
- Shimano XT brakes
- Syncros Revelstoke 2.0 wheels
- Value:$7,599.99 (£7,499)
- Claimed weight: 14.4kg (31.75lb)
Genius ST 920
- 6061 alloy body
- Rockshox Lyrik Air Rush RC fork
- SRAM NX/SX combined drivetrain
- SRAM DB8 brakes
- Syncros alloy rims w/ Method CL hubs
- Value: $4,499.99 (£4,999)
- Claimed weight: 15.8kg (34.83lb)
Contessa Genius ST 910
- HMF carbon entrance with alloy rear
- Fox 36 Float Efficiency Elite GRIP 2 fork
- SRAM GX AXS drivetrain
- Shimano XT brakes
- Syncros Revelstoke 2.0 wheels
- Value:$7,599.99 (£7,499)
- Claimed weight: 14.4kg (31.75lb)
Contessa Genius 920
- HMF carbon entrance with alloy rear
- Fox 36 Float Rhythm Air GRIP fork
- Shimano XT/Deore combined drivetrain
- Shimano Deore brakes
- Syncros alloy rims w/ Method CL hubs
- Value: $4,999.99 (£4,999)
- Claimed weight: 14.8kg (32.7lb)
Choose fashions will likely be accessible within the subsequent few weeks after this launch announcement, examine with your native Scott vendor for particulars and to order. They are saying that native pricing for international markets must be checked together with your native vendor for probably the most up-to-date numbers.
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