The brand new Pilot Scram Pinion is the world’s first gravel bike with Pinion’s digital Sensible.Shift gear field. And it’s paired with Gates’ CDX Belt Drive and titanium body for ultra-low upkeep throughout.
Pinion’s Sensible.Shift debuted in 2022 for e-bikes, pulling energy from their battery. Then in 2023, they launched this standalone unit with it’s personal battery and Precedence Cycles launched the primary mountain bike with it that summer season. That is the primary drop bar bike to make use of it.
The system combines Pinion’s internally geared gearbox on the cranks with digital shifting, overcoming the unique’s disadvantage of requiring two cables operating from the shifter, changing them with a single wire.
It’s housed in a customized titanium shell, superbly built-in into this body’s design.
For drop bar bikes, it’s paired with TRP HyWire shifters and brakeset, which is a gamechanger for ergonomics in comparison with the mechanical twist shifter. Each brake hoses and the shift wires run internally by way of the body, with a small charging port on the downtube.
Pilot is utilizing the Pinion C-line mannequin with 12-speeds and speedy 0.2-second shifts. It could shift beneath load or at a standstill. You’ll be able to even program a “beginning gear” that it’ll routinely return to whenever you come to a cease, making take-off simpler and at simply the suitable cadence.
The bike makes use of sliding dropouts to rigidity the belt drive, with a bolt-together body brake on the driveside seatstay.
The utterly sealed gearbox and maintenance-free belt drive makes it an ideal journey bike, and it has triple bottle bosses on the seat tube and either side of the downtube, providing you with loads of storage choices…
…plus rack and fender mounts on the rear. Swap out the fork for one thing with Something Cage mounts (or add Previous Man Mountain’s new Axle Pack equipment) and also you’re prepared for bikepacking.
It’ll be out there as a frameset (€4,200) and full bike (from €8,250) with the next spec:
- Wheelset: OHR G2 / G45
- Handlebar: Ritchey Venturemax
- Seatpost: Ritchey 2-Bolt
- Body end: Brushed Body with Sandblasted Logos / customized logos
- Fork: Pilot Carbon Gravel
- Brakes and shifters: TRP HyWire
- Tires: Vredestein Aventura / Grezzo 38 / 44mm
- Wheels: OHR Biking G2
