Cycling Weekly - Editor’s Choice Award 2019

December, 2019

The Scott Addict RC Pro offers a superb ride and a great fit. Truly a racing bike that you could ride all day long.

The essential pairing for any new bike, Scott says that it has improved both the rigidity of the new bike and the bike’s compliance. As you’d expect, there has also been some leg work done on the bike’s aero credentials, a must have for any lightweight bike in this aero age.

The brand has re-designed the Torayca carbon fiber mix at the bottom bracket to increase stiffness by 14.5%. Out on the road the bike is responsive and feels snappy, no doubt that’s also because of the bike’s light weight, with the RC Pro weighing in at a svelte 6.9kg, even with Scott’s own brand Syncros wheels and chunky 28mm tires.

It’s easy to see why the racers of Mitchelton-Scott love riding the Addict in the Grand Tours. I managed to take the bike out on the roads around Nice covering over 1000m of climbing in 35km on one ride and the Scott Addict was the perfect companion – the weight benefits shone through when sat in the saddle and the frame’s responsiveness was grin inducing when the gradient kicked above 15%. Ok, so maybe that should read ‘grimace’ inducing, but the point is the Scott Addict RC Pro was up to it, and at no point felt like an anchor on the climbs.

Read the full review here: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/reviews/road-bikes/new-scott-addict-rc