Pilot Scram Ti Gravel Bike First w/ Pinion Sensible.Shift

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The brand new Pilot Scram Pinion is the world’s first gravel bike with Pinion’s digital Sensible.Shift gear field. And it’s paired with Gates’ CDX Belt Drive and titanium body for ultra-low upkeep throughout.

Pinion’s Sensible.Shift debuted in 2022 for e-bikes, pulling energy from their battery. Then in 2023, they launched this standalone unit with it’s personal battery and Precedence Cycles launched the primary mountain bike with it that summer season. That is the primary drop bar bike to make use of it.

closeup view of pilot scram pinion titanium gravel bike gearbox

The system combines Pinion’s internally geared gearbox on the cranks with digital shifting, overcoming the unique’s downside of requiring two cables working from the shifter, changing them with a single wire.

It’s housed in a customized titanium shell, superbly built-in into this body’s design.

closeup view of pilot scram pinion titanium gravel bike TRP shifter levers

For drop bar bikes, it’s paired with TRP HyWire shifters and brakeset, which is a gamechanger for ergonomics in comparison with the mechanical twist shifter. Each brake hoses and the shift wires run internally by means of the body, with a small charging port on the downtube.

Pilot is utilizing the Pinion C-line mannequin with 12-speeds and speedy 0.2-second shifts. It could possibly shift beneath load or at a standstill. You possibly can even program a “beginning gear” that it’ll mechanically return to once you come to a cease, making take-off simpler and at simply the fitting cadence.

closeup view of pilot scram pinion titanium gravel bike dropouts

The bike makes use of sliding dropouts to stress the belt drive, with a bolt-together body brake on the driveside seatstay.

side view of pilot scram pinion titanium gravel bike

The fully sealed gearbox and maintenance-free belt drive makes it an ideal journey bike, and it has triple bottle bosses on the seat tube and either side of the downtube, supplying you with loads of storage choices…

closeup view of pilot scram pinion titanium gravel bike seatstays

…plus rack and fender mounts on the rear. Swap out the fork for one thing with Something Cage mounts (or add Outdated Man Mountain’s new Axle Pack package) and also you’re prepared for bikepacking.