Bike Review: Ransom 10
Scott has been using carbon fibre for many, many years now, and has an excellent track record - only the other day we saw someone racing an old Endorphin hardtail that must be a decade old by now. In recent years it's been expanding the full suspension side of its range with the Genius range, notable for running Scott-designed shocks instead of the usual approach of buying them in.
The Ransom moves on another step, using an all-new Scott shock and appearing in carbon fibre right off the bat - the Genius bikes were aluiminium-only for the first year. The design intention is a long-travel all-mountain bike at a "reasonable weight" - 165mm of rear wheel travel from a claimed sub-7kg frame. We rode a not-quite-production Ransom at the 2005 Interbike show (the first journos to do so) but production bikes for test have proven elusive. We finally got our hands on one though, and here it is...
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