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“Hey mate, that e-bike is really quiet”. I had that comment not once but three times on a single ride. OK, so a Saturday afternoon at Cannock Chase isn’t the World Cup XCO circuit that Scott developed the latest-generation of Spark on. But then I’m not Nino Schurter. Or any of the other pros who’ve helped hone the various iterations of this bike into the dominant XC racing machine of the past decade. And it’s easy to see where the fitness-flattering confusion occurs. The bulbous belly of the new frame layout that hides the shock and linkage adds a new twist to the ‘it must have a motor’ speed with which the Spark RC World Cup AXS caught up to the back wheel of other riders.
And it’s not just the shock