It’s no wonder to us that weight-weenie motorcycle ultra-customizer Dangerholm falls into the class of cyclists who don’t see transparent traces between cross-country mountain motorcycles and gravel motorcycles – and his newest Scale RC Tremendous Gravel is the very best instance. Whether or not it’s a gravel-oriented XC motorcycle or a gravel motorcycle constructed for using singletrack and exploring deeper off-road, the place you draw the road between the 2 is actually as much as the rider…
Dangerholm Scott Scale RC Tremendous Gravel motorcycle
We’ve been following Gustav Gullholm aka Dangerholm’s customized builds for years. His consideration to element all the time amazes, as does his common ruthlessness with a knife to inventory paint jobs. He’s a mountain biker evidently, and the primary motorcycle I take note him development was once a 6.22kg Scott Scale XC hardtail, no longer all too dissimilar to this Scale RC Tremendous Gravel motorcycle in it’s superb terrain. However extra lately, he in fact already constructed a Scale in to a flashy Mellow Yellow gravel motorcycle two summers in the past. Heavier, however extra heavy-duty for wintry weather commuting.
Now, Dangerholm is again reasserting his ideas on gravel motorcycles.
What is going gravel imply to Dangerholm?
He justified the XC Gravel venture to us again in 2021, figuring “dropbar motorcycles had been a street biker’s imaginative and prescient of gravel, so why no longer construct a mountain biker’s model of gravel with flat bars. As a result of what mountain biker hasn’t already ridden lots of gravel roads on hardtail mountain motorcycle, so perhaps simply get started from there?” Now he talks about advanced convenience thank you to raised, larger tires – an actual problem to his Mellow Yellow motorcycle. He additionally prefers the are compatible & geometry of a flat MTB bar vs. dropbars, most likely as a result of he rides like a hoon off-road.
Plus, he argues, “with the precise tire selection, gearing and possibly handlebar width – it wouldn’t be a lot slower than its drop bar opposite numbers.“
The result’s a contemporary inflexible carbon XC motorcycle constructed up with 29 x 2.4″ Kenda Rush knobby tires on Syncros’ ultra-expensive 1-piece carbon Silverton SL MTB wheels. After which, a wild spec listing that is going even additional to emptying someone’s pockets.
Whilst I really like my drop-bar gravel motorcycle, there’s simply one thing a few mountain motorcycle based totally gravel construct. It’s tremendous a laugh and evokes playful using like popping wheelies, there’s a variety of convenience because of the massive tire quantity and thick foam grips and aside from for being fairly much less aerodynamic it’s necessarily simply as rapid.
– Gustav Gullholm
What stands proud?
The Dangerholm Scott Scale RC Tremendous Gravel motorcycle sticks with a quite standard glittery inexperienced paint task for the Scott XC body & inflexible fork that debuted ultimate wintry weather. Nevertheless it does blow their own horns in the main points.
Its flashiest parts are more than likely the ones gold-painted $3500 complete carbon Syncros Silverton SL mountain motorcycle wheels. However after that, the 3D-printed Strong Cycles titanium crankset and Dward Designs 42T chainring jumped out at us.
Strong additionally 3D-printed a hole titanium common derailleur hanger (UDH) that bolts on with METI’s Italian machined titanium thru-axles.
And Strong 3D-printed wild rotor lockrings, too.
Past that, take a look at the tuned SRAM Pink AXS XPLR derailleur with a Ceramic Velocity OSPW improve. Then, an e*13 gravel cassette handing over a 500% gearing vary paired to a Pink Flattop chain.
On most sensible of that, including an additional 650g for actual usability, Dangerholm provides his Scale Tremendous Gravel motorcycles an built-in 4000lm Moonlight headlight to illuminate the Swedish gravel roads despite the fact that the darkish wintry weather. And it’s stressed out right into a battery tucked within the seattube water bottle for a tidy setup.
Entire Tremendous Gravel motorcycle
This new Dangerholm Scott Scale RC Tremendous Gravel venture is gentle for a mountain motorcycle at a claimed 7.67kg with pedals. However, that’s no longer actually all that gentle for a contemporary gravel motorcycle. Particularly whilst you believe its virtually countless funds. Actually, it’s so much heavier than we’d be expecting from a Dangerholm construct.
But when you need somewhat lighter, and a fairly extra standard gravel setup, you’ll all the time take a look at Dangerholm’s 2021 Addict Gravel construct.
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Entire Motorbike Construct Spec:
- Body: SCOTT Scale RC International Cup measurement Massive
- Derailleur hanger: Strong Cycles 3D revealed titanium
- Fork: SCOTT Scale Inflexible
- Via-axles: METI Titanium
- Headset: Syncros with CeramicSpeed SLT bearings
- Handlebar: Syncros Fraser iC SL 80mm -20degrees 720mm
- Grips: Syncros Foam
- Seatpost: Schmolke Carbon TLO
- Saddle: Berk Composites
- Crankset: Strong Cycles MTB 3D revealed titanium
- Chainring: Dward Design ”DangerDward” 42T
- Backside bracket: CeramicSpeed
- Pedals: Shimano XTR with METI Rapido titanium axles
- Chain: SRAM RED
- Cassette: e*13 Helix Race Gravel 9-45T
- Rear derailleur: SRAM RED AXS XPLR with gold Carbon-Ti restrict screws
- Rear derailleur cage: CeramicSpeed OSPW 3D revealed hole titanium
- Wheels: Syncros Silverton SL
- Tires: Kenda Rush Professional TR 2.4”
- Tubes: Revoloop Extremely MTB
- Brakes: Trickstuff Piccola Carbon
- Rotors: Trickstuff Dächle UL 160mm
- Lock-rings: Strong Cycles 3D revealed titanium
- Bottle cages: Strong Cycles titanium
- Headlight: Moonlight Mountaingear Vibrant As Day 4000