Ask my co-workers what bike I always suggest people buy, and they’ll give you one answer: the Transition Scout.
Launched in 2015, the heyday of the 27.5” All-Mountain bike, it had 5” (125mm) of rear-wheel travel and came stock with a 140mm fork. Along with its longer travel sibling, the Patrol – winner of many “Best Bike of the Year” awards – it helped usher in an era of longer reaches, steeper seat-tube angles, and slacker head-tube angles.
In 2018, the Speed Balanced Geometry (SBG) version of the Scout was introduced, pushing wheelbase, reach, and travel up even more, and bringing in the various components of SBG that have become ubiquitous throughout the industry – reduced fork offset, sub 50mm stems, and the ability to run very long dropper posts.
Why has the Scout always been my go-to recommendation? As I see it, it is the perfect do-it-all bike for anyone who isn’t hell-bent on smashing technical downhill trails as fast as you can. It has enough travel that it certainly can do that, but also not so much that it’s soaking up your speed on smoother flow/jump trails, or making long alpine single-track into a death-march… basically, it’s a bike that keeps biking fun, which is why the vast majority of us do it.
And now, with the Scout V3, it is a more refined version of just that – a maximum fun mountain bike.
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