It’s no shock to us that weight-weenie bike ultra-customizer Dangerholm falls into the class of cyclists who don’t see clear traces between cross-country mountain bikes and gravel bikes – and his newest Scale RC Tremendous Gravel is the proper instance. Whether or not it’s a gravel-oriented XC bike or a gravel bike constructed for driving singletrack and exploring deeper off-road, the place you draw the road between the 2 is de facto as much as the rider…
Dangerholm Scott Scale RC Tremendous Gravel bike
We’ve been following Gustav Gullholm aka Dangerholm’s customized builds for years. His consideration to element all the time amazes, as does his basic ruthlessness with a knife to inventory paint jobs. He’s a mountain biker for positive, and the primary bike I keep in mind him constructing was a 6.22kg Scott Scale XC hardtail, not all too dissimilar to this Scale RC Tremendous Gravel bike in it’s preferrred terrain. However extra lately, he really already constructed a Scale in to a flashy Mellow Yellow gravel bike two summers in the past. Heavier, however extra heavy-duty for winter commuting.
Now, Dangerholm is again reasserting his ideas on gravel bikes.
What goes gravel imply to Dangerholm?
He justified the XC Gravel mission to us again in 2021, figuring “dropbar bikes have been a street biker’s imaginative and prescient of gravel, so why not construct a mountain biker’s model of gravel with flat bars. As a result of what mountain biker hasn’t already ridden tons of gravel roads on hardtail mountain bike, so possibly simply begin from there?” Now he talks about improved consolation thanks to raised, greater tires – an actual draw back to his Mellow Yellow bike. He additionally prefers the match & geometry of a flat MTB bar vs. dropbars, doubtless as a result of he rides like a hoon off-road.
Plus, he argues, “with the proper tire selection, gearing and maybe handlebar width – it wouldn’t be a lot slower than its drop bar counterparts.“
The result’s a contemporary inflexible carbon XC bike constructed up with 29 x 2.4″ Kenda Rush knobby tires on Syncros’ ultra-expensive 1-piece carbon Silverton SL MTB wheels. After which, a wild spec listing that goes even additional to emptying anybody’s pockets.
Whereas I like my drop-bar gravel bike, there’s simply one thing a couple of mountain bike based mostly gravel construct. It’s tremendous enjoyable and conjures up playful driving like popping wheelies, there’s a number of consolation because of the large tire quantity and thick foam grips and aside from being barely much less aerodynamic it’s basically simply as quick.
– Gustav Gullholm
What stands out?
The Dangerholm Scott Scale RC Tremendous Gravel bike sticks with a comparatively typical glittery inexperienced paint job for the Scott XC body & inflexible fork that debuted final winter. But it surely does showcase within the particulars.
Its flashiest elements are most likely these gold-painted $3500 full carbon Syncros Silverton SL mountain bike wheels. However after that, the 3D-printed Sturdy Cycles titanium crankset and Dward Designs 42T chainring jumped out at us.
Sturdy additionally 3D-printed a hole titanium common derailleur hanger (UDH) that bolts on with METI’s Italian machined titanium thru-axles.
And Sturdy 3D-printed wild rotor lockrings, too.
Past that, take a look at the tuned SRAM Crimson AXS XPLR derailleur with a Ceramic Velocity OSPW improve. Then, an e*13 gravel cassette delivering a 500% gearing vary paired to a Crimson Flattop chain.
On prime of that, including an additional 650g for actual usability, Dangerholm offers his Scale Tremendous Gravel bikes an built-in 4000lm Moonlight headlight to mild up the Swedish gravel roads although the darkish winter. And it’s wired right into a battery tucked contained in the seattube water bottle for a tidy setup.
Full Tremendous Gravel bike
This new Dangerholm Scott Scale RC Tremendous Gravel mission is mild for a mountain bike at a claimed 7.67kg with pedals. However, that’s not likely all that mild for a contemporary gravel bike. Particularly when you think about its nearly limitless price range. Actually, it’s rather a lot heavier than we’d anticipate from a Dangerholm construct.
However if you would like a bit lighter, and a barely extra typical gravel setup, you’ll be able to all the time take a look at Dangerholm’s 2021 Addict Gravel construct.
Depart your ideas within the feedback under…
Full Bike Construct Spec:
- Body: SCOTT Scale RC World Cup dimension Massive
- Derailleur hanger: Sturdy Cycles 3D printed titanium
- Fork: SCOTT Scale Inflexible
- Via-axles: METI Titanium
- Headset: Syncros with CeramicSpeed SLT bearings
- Handlebar: Syncros Fraser iC SL 80mm -20degrees 720mm
- Grips: Syncros Foam
- Seatpost: Schmolke Carbon TLO
- Saddle: Berk Composites
- Crankset: Sturdy Cycles MTB 3D printed titanium
- Chainring: Dward Design ”DangerDward” 42T
- Backside bracket: CeramicSpeed
- Pedals: Shimano XTR with METI Rapido titanium axles
- Chain: SRAM RED
- Cassette: e*13 Helix Race Gravel 9-45T
- Rear derailleur: SRAM RED AXS XPLR with gold Carbon-Ti restrict screws
- Rear derailleur cage: CeramicSpeed OSPW 3D printed hole titanium
- Wheels: Syncros Silverton SL
- Tires: Kenda Rush Professional TR 2.4”
- Tubes: Revoloop Extremely MTB
- Brakes: Trickstuff Piccola Carbon
- Rotors: Trickstuff Dächle UL 160mm
- Lock-rings: Sturdy Cycles 3D printed titanium
- Bottle cages: Sturdy Cycles titanium
- Headlight: Moonlight Mountaingear Shiny As Day 4000
