For seven years after it launched in 2007, the Scott Addict went largely unchanged. The American/Swiss brand had little reason to tinker with the design as its top-tier race bike kept racking up win after win, first with Columbia-HTC and later with Orica-GreenEdge. Even now, the latest-generation Addict RC ridden by Team DSM is not wholly dissimilar to the original from all those years ago.
Throughout its 16-year history, the Addict has been focused firmly on light weight, and the foundations were laid with Scott’s previous super-light race machine.
‘The Addict is a direct result of the CR1, which was 880g in its lightest configuration,’ says Frank Oberle, road product manager at Scott. ‘The road teams were asking for a lighter version,
