Scott Scale 40

zippy-uk
zippy-uk Posts: 14
edited March 2012 in MTB general
Just took delivery of my shiny new Scott Scale 40. This being a replacement for my much-loved, but stolen Rock Lobster.

Any hoo, rear brake pipe routing - Under the bottom bracket FFS! Lost count of the times I bashed my BB on a rock in a particularly rocky rock garden, on the Lobster.

Is this sensible? Surely poor design?

That issue aside. The bike handles superbly. Feels quick, but not as highly strung as the Lobster.

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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Surely your chain rings get in the way, you don't actually hit your BB shell on things.

    Very normal place for cables/hoses to run.
  • zippy-uk
    zippy-uk Posts: 14
    It's probably my poor bike handling. Only had one MTB prior to this one, and all cables routed along the top tube and down the seat stays. Hopefully I'm just being paranoid that I'll sever my back brake tube.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Hose, not tube. You won't. Really, not a chance.

    Think about it... Your chainrings protrude several inches below your BB shell. You have cranks both sides. The only way you could hit your BB shell would be to hit a pointy rock/stump etc, no more than 2" wide, dead between your pedals.

    Hoses aren't particularly weak either.

    You're far more likely to damage one snagging it at by the caliper or headtube, and even that's bloody unlikely.
  • chez_m356
    chez_m356 Posts: 1,893
    if your that worried, wrap a layer or two of gaffer tape around it as added protection for something that hopefully will never happen :wink:
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  • zippy-uk
    zippy-uk Posts: 14
    Ok. seems like it's not that bad a design. Just spoilt previously with well thought out Rock lobster design. I have bashed the BB several times though despite all the afore-mentioned protruberances. The boulder strewn quarries and rough tracks I ride on aren't the smooth gravely trail centre tracks.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Who mentioned anything about trail centres? It's protuberances too, if you're going to try and sound clever, get it right ;-)

    Er yes, Rock Lobster thought out their cable runs better than Scott, who designed a bike and then suddenly realised it would need cables, so stuck them on wherever :roll:

    Top tube cable runs look scruffier, and tend to scratch the top tube. Under the down tube is out of the way, generally works better on FS bikes because you don't have so much movement to compensate for at the BB shell. It's not worse, it's different.
  • zippy-uk
    zippy-uk Posts: 14
    Me, and I'll worry about spelling when I'm at work, or checking my son's homework thanks. :) Rather bad form pointing out typo's.

    It will obviously become apparant if it's a problem over the coming months. I will be thrashing, well riding, the tracks, and trails around Scout Moor (North of Bury), so we shall see. I do prefer functional over the way it looks, but each to their own. I worry about these things, largely because I fall off every so often anyway. I don't need my brakes disappearing on me as well. :lol:
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Rather bad form pointing out typo's.

    Says you of 7 posts. You used a pretentious sounding word wrongly, just observing! Aforementioned is one word too while we're at it.

    You've been told, repeatedly that it's not an issue. Why ask the question if you don't accept the answer? Do you want to be told that your new bike is a pile of crap and you need to take it back before you die from brake failure caused due to poor hose routing!?

    Nino Schurter has ridden a Scale to numerous world cup wins. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that he's probably a better rider than you, up and down, he has never, ever (in fact I'm prepared to wager that no one has) pierced his brake hose by hitting it on a rock under his BB shell!
  • Long_Time_Lurker
    Long_Time_Lurker Posts: 1,068
    Zippy just wants reassurance...
    Nothing worse when you get a new bike. Constantly looking at it, hoping that you have done the right thing (niggling feeling that you should have bought the other bike).
    I'm in that situation at the moment with my new Cube. Lovely bike, having great fun on it...but what if?

    Zippy - it is fine. Just wait until you have your first off and scratch the lovely paintwork :x
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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Aye, but he got reassurance straight away, then started spouting off about how he doesn't ride groomed trail centre trails, which no one had mentioned previously!

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