The very first brand we reached out to for a First Ride at the Sedona Mountain Bike Festival was Scott. If there was any bike of the past two years that deserved to have a women’s version, it’s the Scott Ransom. It swept our Bible of Bike Tests in Mammoth in 2018, and it has been Bike Mag Gear Editor, Travis Engel’s dream bike ever since. Kudos to Scott for not assuming women wouldn’t be interested in big-travel big-wheeled bikes. Though, it should come as no surprise. If any long-travel 29er is going to prove the versatility that platform offers, it’s the Ransom. This was Nicole’s first time on it, and despite the fact that she’s shorter and lighter than the testers who covered the unisex Ransom, she still didn’t find that it rides like a big bike. It’s reasonably maneuverable and, especially thanks to the lighter shock tune, it isn’t the piggy, glued-to-the-ground sled that some bikes in this category are.
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