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The Scott Solace is a brand new drop-bar electrical bike vary that’s primarily based round TQ’s HPR550 motor system.
The Solace is offered in electrical gravel bike and electrical highway bike choices, with each sharing the identical frameset. The Solace Gravel is Scott’s first electrical gravel bike.
The Addict eRide will stay within the model’s line-up.
TQ’s HPR50 electrical bike motor and battery is claimed to be one of many quietest and most compact programs in the marketplace.
Pricing begins from £5,499 / $6,099.99 / €5,999 / AU$11,499.99 for the Solace Gravel eRide 30, rising to £10,999 / $11,999 / €11,999 / AU$21,999.99 for the Solace eRide 10.
There shall be a single Contessa mannequin for ladies – the Contessa Solace Gravel eRide 15, which is able to retail for £5,499 / $6,099.99 / €5,999.
The bikes can be found now.
Wish to understand how the Solace Gravel and Solace eRide deal with? Try our first journey evaluate of the Scott Solace Gravel eRide 10 and our first journey evaluate of the Scott Solace eRide 10.
How Scott designed the Solace
Scott says it has aimed the Solace line-up at each new and skilled highway and gravel cyclists.
Jonathan Fazan, product supervisor for the Solace sequence, explains there have been 4 targets initially of the venture – the bike wanted to be light-weight, silent, compact and cozy.
The light-weight facet isn’t just for efficiency advantages. Fazan says it’s for user-friendliness too, for instance when loading the bike right into a automobile.
Scott says the place to begin within the Solace’s growth was to resolve on which motor and battery to make use of. The model says it wished the lightest, most compact and silent possibility in the marketplace and as soon as it selected the TQ system, it might then work out how you can design the body round it.
The Solace has a larger-than-usual down tube to deal with the battery, so Scott determined to beef up the fork to match its profile.
Like the vast majority of its different drop-bar bikes, the pinnacle tube, down tube, backside bracket space and chainstays are stated to be designed for stiffness and rigidity. In distinction, the opposite tubes are designed with consolation in thoughts.
Early within the bike’s growth, Scott says the pinnacle tube was too stiff.
A flexible body with loads of neat particulars
Scott manufactures the Solace utilizing its top-spec HMX carbon fibre and claims a body weighs 1.2kg for a dimension medium.
Victor Valls, head of ebike engineering at Scott, explains that, in comparison with the Addict Gravel, the “wall thicknesses are barely strengthened to carry the battery, principally within the down tube within the battery clamping space”.
In comparison with the Addict Gravel, Scott claims “very comparable stiffness values”.
Scott says the developments end in a “bike that corners like a daily gravel journey”, in addition to feeling agile when pedalling.
The Solace makes use of 700c wheels and has clearance for 50mm tyres, or 45mm with mudguards. The bike makes use of SRAM’s common derailleur hanger (UDH) normal.
Just like the Lumen, Scott has specced all the bikes with common highway and gravel bike elements.
The hydraulic hoses and equipment cables run by means of the higher headset bearing.
There’s some significantly neat detailing on the non-driveside thru-axle dropout. It makes use of a rubber grommet on the skin that’s detachable, with a metallic spacer inside, for the thru-axle to insert by means of.
This protects the necessity for an alloy or foam insert on the within of the dropout and Valls says a shorter axle can be utilized, each of which save weight. He additionally claims the design allows a “direct switch of masses from the axle into the inner face of the dropout” for a greater journey really feel.
Not like the Lumen, the place the magnet is built-in into the driveside chainstay, the magnet on the Solace may be discovered on the within of the non-driveside dropout.
The pace sensor sits on the non-driveside dropout. The wire to this routes by means of a pocket within the carbon and routes internally to the aspect of the brake caliper mounting bolts.
In a nod to versatility, Scott has added kickstand mounting factors on the underside face of the non-driveside chainstay.
Scott Solace geometry particulars
The geometry is just like the non-assisted Scott Addict Gravel.
The 71-degree head tube angle, 73.5-degree seat tube angle and 387mm attain on a dimension medium are all an identical.
The stack is 1mm taller at 566mm and the chainstay size has grown by 10mm to 435mm.
Valls says the 1mm improve in stack is as a result of battery within the down tube including extra peak.
Scott says the longer chainstays assist to stability the burden distribution of the battery and motor by shifting the centre of gravity in direction of the center of the bike.
The model says this interprets to elevated stability at greater speeds, in addition to reaching the 50mm tyre clearance.
Heading to the highway
Though the Solace was designed primarily as an electrical gravel bike, Scott says it wished the platform to additionally work as a highway bike initially of the venture.
The Solace eRide is specced with Schwalbe Professional One 38mm tyres, which it developed in collaboration with Schwalbe. The tyres are tubeless-ready and shall be accessible after-market.
Each Solace eRide fashions obtain Shimano groupsets with 2x cranksets. The Solace eRide is specced with a Syncros Creston IC SL bar-stem over the Creston IC SL X discovered on the Gravel fashions. This options much less flare and a few added texturing to the tops of the hoods for grip.
Apart from these variations and a change in saddle, each the highway and gravel platforms share an identical elements.
TQ HPR50 system particulars
The bike is constructed round TQ’s HPR50 motor and battery system.
Scott says it wished to make use of a bottom-bracket primarily based motor to stability the rider’s centre of gravity.
The system offers 50Nm of torque and is claimed to be one of many lightest, quietest and most compact programs in the marketplace. An rising variety of bike producers are partnering with the motor model, resembling Trek, BMC and Simplon.
The HPR50 was lately featured on Scott’s Lumen electrical mountain bike, in addition to the Trek Gasoline EXe, Trek Domane+ and the BMC Fourstroke AMP.
The decrease torque gives help that’s claimed to really feel extra pure than extra highly effective motors.
Scott says there’s “no hitting-the-wall feeling when exceeding 25kmph” (the purpose at which the motor cuts out to adjust to electrical bike legal guidelines).
There are Eco, Mid and Excessive modes, with the Excessive mode delivering 300W of help.
Modes are chosen through the button on the built-in prime tube show, reasonably than a handlebar or shifter distant.
The show offers data together with remaining battery life, vary and energy output.
The show makes use of BLE and ANT+, so you may join the system to your bike laptop or to the model’s telephone app. It additionally makes use of Smartbox third-party integration for objects resembling lights or SRAM AXS batteries.
Scott claims the 360Wh battery fees in two and a half hours, or as much as 80 per cent in 90 minutes.
Vary extender
If you wish to head on longer escapades, TQ offers a 950g vary extender. The model claims it to be the “smallest in the marketplace” each in dimension and vitality density.
The 160Wh vary extender provides 50 per cent to vary capability.
The vary extender may be positioned on the seat tube bottle cage and connects to the cost port on the prime of the bottom-bracket junction.
Just like the Lumen, the system recognises when there are two batteries and can prioritise the principle unit.
Each the Solace eRide 10 and Solace Gravel eRide 10 are provided with a variety extender within the field and it’s accessible after-market for all different fashions.
Scott Solace vary overview
Scott Solace eRide 10
- Body: Carbon HMX
- Motor: TQ HPR50
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9270
- Wheelset: Zipp 303 Firecrest
- Tyres: Schwalbe Professional One EVO Tremendous Race, 38mm
- Value: £10,999 / $11,999.99 / €11,999 / AU$21,299.99
Scott Solace eRide 20
- Body: Carbon HMX
- Motor: TQ HPR50
- Groupset: Shimano Ultegra Di2 R8170, 12-speed
- Wheelset: Syncros Capital 1.0 40e Disc
- Tyres: Schwalbe Professional One EVO Tremendous Race, 38mm
- Value: £7,299 / $7,999.99 / €7,999 / AU$14,699.99
Scott Solace Gravel eRide 10
- Body: Carbon HMX
- Motor: TQ HPR50
- Groupset: SRAM Pressure XPLR eTap AXS, 12-speed
- Wheelset: Zipp 303 Firecrest
- Tyres: Schwalbe G-One Overland, 50mm
- Value: £9,199 / $10,099.99 / €9,999
Scott Solace Gravel eRide 20
- Body: Carbon HMX
- Motor: TQ HPR50
- Groupset: SRAM Rival XPLR eTap AXS, 12-speed
- Wheelset: Syncros Capital 1.0 40e Disc
- Tyres: Schwalbe G-One Overland, 50mm
- Value: £6,999 / $7,499.99 / €7,599
Scott Solace Gravel eRide 30
- Body: Carbon HMX
- Motor: TQ HPR50
- Groupset: SRAM Rival 1, 11-speed
- Wheelset: Syncros Capital 2.0 25e Disc
- Tyres: Schwalbe G-One Overland, 50mm
- Value: £5,499 / $6,099.99 / €5,999 / AU$11,499.99
Scott Contessa Solace Gravel eRide 15
- Body: Carbon HMX
- Motor: TQ HPR50
- Groupset: SRAM Rival 1, 11-speed
- Wheelset: Syncros Capital 2.0 25e Disc
- Tyres: Schwalbe G-One Overland, 50mm
- Value: £5,499 / $6,099.99 / €5,999