2016 Scott Addict Gravel bike hits the dirt road w/ new Schwalbe G-One tires

Nice bike — the weight is better than most — but not a great setup for the serious gravel races like Dirty Kanza. Slapping “Gravel” on a cyclocross bike doesn’t make it a good gravel bike. Some aspects of cyclocross geometry are very different than what you want on a challenging gravel course. Lower that BB somewhat and make the geometry more slack — give it a lot more tire clearance. Then, you’ll have a real gravel bike.

Cool bike, but I never understand why they make this sort of bike without fender mounts. Surely the majority of these bikes will see some commuter/winter bike duty at some point.

Website shows: 100×12mm front axle and the 142×12mm rear axle. Nice!

Dumb question of the day? New product and will have flat mount disc breaks but they don’t have enough parts for a photo shoot? Is this going to be available 4/2016? Solace 15 Disc wasn’t readily available until after this season had started…

Nice frame, nice cable ports, nice tires! Ugly wheel stickers.

Fenders may not look cool, but go riding on gravel in winter without fenders and you and your bike are going to end up in one big cold and wet mess. And I’m not talking about those silly short click on fenders that attach on to the seatpost or down tube.

A real all conditions gravel bike needs big long fenders like a touring bike, but that doesn’t look cool. And remember what sells? “Cool” or “sex”. Either is a guarantee when selling a product, as it creates a false perception in the consumers mind of an elevated social status.

Hang on, maybe a touring bike could be used for gravel riding? I guess we are seeing the bike industry trying to segment a segmentation. That is a touring bike or cross bike becomes a gravel bike, but now we have race gravel bikes, fair-weather gravel bikes (i.e., no fender mounts), bike-packing gravel bikes. Just like we have cross race bikes, cross adventure bikes, and cross commuter bikes.

Taking a cross bike and re-releasing it as a gravel bike is just taking consumers for fools.

I’m going to complain about tire clearance as well. Look at that fork crown – lots of material and not much clearance for anything more than a 35.

Those tires might be a contender to replace my X’plor(?) tires.

@Yerma, the majority of people don’t compete and are looking for an entirely different bike than this, but somehow feel the need to complain if a race bike doesn’t suit them. This Scott Addict by all accounts a “RACE” bike. Which means tighter clearances, steeper geo, and no fenders! The “Addict” line for Scott has always been top-line full-race, and for several years now! Road, cx, and now this. Lots of folk also tend to overlook ideal tire pressure as well which makes a huge difference with comfort and grip over 100mi of gravel no matter the width of their tires, race or ride. Most who do compete in the gravel events prefer 32-38c tires. Anything past 45c with big clearance isn’t a gravel road race bike anymore. There’s a point where you have to call it something else when you step that far out of genre.

The upcoming USA Cyclin Gravel Racing regulations on equipment are:

The frame’s bottom bracket drop must be 7.0 cm or more
Frames must have at least two bottle mounts
Wheel size must be 700c only. 27.5” (650b), fat bike, 26″, 29er plus and vintage 27” wheels are not allowed.
Tires must be wider than 38c or narrower than 30c. (No cyclocross tires)
Fender and rack mounts are mandatory
Starting in 2016, National Gravel Calendar racers’ frames must be certified

Although the most comments here are from 2015 I’ve to say something about the “racy geometry”. Due multiple backbone issues I sold my mountainbikes and bought a Salsa Fargo 2 in beginning of 2015 which I rode for about 3000 kilometres. Then I looked out for something “speedier”, a fast gravel bike. And now, after I bought the Addict Gravel Disc two months ago, there’s only one thing to say: I’ll sell my Fargo. The Scott lets me ride for miles and miles without any troubles. The only customizing was changing the 120mm stem against a 100mm one and throwing away the narrow Synchros handlebar to mount a 42cm Salsa Cowbell. Don’t need any MTB again.