2025 Scott Spark 970 silver Bike

When you think of the perfect mountain bike, what comes to mind? For us, it's the Spark 970. Why, you ask? Well, beyond the fact that it is fast, lightweight and ultra capable on all sorts of terrain, it's just damned good lookin'. Short-travel trail bike? "Downcountry" rig? Occasional race bike? Whatever, call it what you want to call it. All we know is that this is one hell of a mountain bike.

Features

• Spark Alloy SL Frame
• RockShox Judy 130mm Fork
• X-Fusion Nude 5, 120mm, TwinLoc
• SRAM NX-SX Eagle 12 Speed
• Shimano Disc Brakes
• Schwalbe Wicked Will Tires

Adjustable Head Angle

With the new Spark, you can adjust the head angle by .6 degrees slacker or steeper. This can be done without cutting cables or bleeding brakes. All you must do is disassemble the bar, rotate the headset cups 180 degrees, and reassemble.

Easy Shock Access

Accessing the shock via the bottom bracket area is facilitated through a hatch. This makes it easy to adjust rebound, compression, shock pressure, and for installing or replacing the cable for our TwinLoc Suspension System.

Patented Integrated Suspension System

An integrated shock platform allows us to refine suspension characteristics without sacrificing weight. Often, when working with bikes at this level, the concept of marginal gains becomes an ever important one.

For the optimal performance of a suspension shock, power transfer must be the most direct possible. What we want to avoid are any inefficient directional movements, in other words, lateral movements (sideways to the direction of travel) as the shock goes through its compression.

Having an integrated shock allows us to improve this in several ways. Firstly, the frame construction around the shock and with the trunnion mount can be designed to be much more rigid, reducing movement and fostering more efficient power transfer. We can also add much larger bearings to the seat tube pivot, further reinforcing this area and reducing any unnecessary motion. Our integrated Suspension technology also helps us to engineer frames with a lower shock placement which lowers center of gravity. As a result, the bike benefits from better handling, and a more stable, confidence inspiring ride for the end user.

While these may seem like minor improvements individually, the sum of their parts results in more efficient shock performance. Additionally, the shock is fully protected from any foreign elements. Rainy race? No problem, your shock will continue to perform at its best regardless.

Rear Axle Tool

Our rear axle tool has been a staple on our bikes for years, it is now better than ever. It features a T25, T30 and a 6 allen key all in one. With these three options you can adjust all pivot hardware and nearly everything else there is to adjust on the bicycle.

Single Pivot Suspension Layout

A full suspension bike will never have success without, well, good suspension design. From the first time we rode the Spark's single pivot layout we fell in love. Years later, we still believe that for technical cross-country racing and fast, punchy singletrack it is the best approach. The Spark's suspension layout has a very specific and proven kinematic and less unsprung mass. Using a flex pivot in the seat stay is an ideal solution for bikes in this travel range. This allows us to keep a very lightweight system while still ensuring optimal suspension performance.

NUDE Suspension Technology

Shocks with NUDE Technology have been intgral to SCOTT Full suspension bikes for nearly two decades. Working closely with our suspension partners, we continue to improve upon this technology so that whether you're racing World Cup's at the highest level or out for a big day in the mountains, you'll always have the best support on offer.

TwinLoc Suspension System

With TwinLoc, a rider can effectively control the complete frame, fork, and shock as a system. Why does this matter? A bike with 150mm of suspension travel, correctly set up, has more sag than a bike with 130mm. It's that extra travel that makes it more fun to ride and more capable on the descents, but the greater sag has an oversized effect on the bike's geometry and climbing performance. That's where TwinLoc matters.

TwinLoc helps manage the sag effect in several ways. Whereas most systems only increase low-speed compression in an effort to gain pedaling efficiency, TwinLoc allows us to not only change compression damping, but also to change the spring curve, dynamically altering the geometry of the bike. In Trail mode, the shock is not only firmer, but it has dynamically less travel. The bike sits higher, maintains a steep seat angle for those climbs, and becomes more agile. We also offer a third, full lockout mode for going up in the most efficient manner possible.

These unique settings optimize climbing geometry, even on longer travel bikes. We can eliminate the "long travel effect" that can rob your pedaling efficiency, but we're not robbing you of the full-fun, 150mm travel when you point it downhill. From a race setting, to a lunch ride, to an after-work trail shred, being able to switch from mode to mode depending on a trails profile at the push of a lever is paramount to riding faster and having a damned good time.

Specifications

Frame

• Spark Alloy SL 6011
• Integrated Suspension Technology
• Flex Pivot / Adjustable head angle
• Syncros Cable Integration System
• BB92 / UDH Interface / 12x148mm with 55mm Chainline

Fork

• RockShox Judy Silver TK Solo Air
• 15x110mm QR axle / 42mm offset / Tapered Steerer
• 2-Modes / Reb. Adj. / Lockout / 130mm travel

Rear Derailleur

• SRAM NX Eagle 12 Speed

Shifters

• SRAM SX Eagle Trigger

Crankset

• SRAM SX Eagle DUB
• 55mm CL / 32T

BB-Set

• SRAM DUB PF 92 MTB Wide / shell 41x92mm

Chain

• SRAM CN SX Eagle

Cassette

• SRAM SX-PG1210 / 11-50 T

Brakes

• Shimano MT201 Disc

Rotor

• Shimano SM-RT10 CL / F&R 180mm

Handlebar

• Syncros Fraser 2.0 DC Alloy 6061 D.B.
• mini Rise / back sweep 8° / 760mm
• Syncros Performance XC lock-on grips

Seatpost

• Syncros Duncan Dropper Post
• 31.6mm / S size 100m / M size 130mm / L & XL size 150mm

Seat

• Syncros Tofino 2.5 Regular

Headset

• Syncros - Acros Angle adjust & Cable Routing HS System
• +-0.6° head angle adjustment
• ZS56/28.6 - ZS56/40 MTB

Front Tire

• Schwalbe Wicked Will 29x2.4"
• Performance / Addix

Rear Tire

• Schwalbe Wicked Will 29x2.4"
• Performance / Addix

Approx weight in KG

• 14.95 (with tubes)

Approx weight in LBS

• 32.96 (with tubes)

Max. System Weight

• 128kg
• The overall weight includes the bike, the rider, the equipment, and possible additional luggage.

H'stem

• Syncros DC 3.0
• Syncros Cable Integration System
• 0° rise / 6061 Alloy / 31.8mm / 1 1/8"

Spokes

• Stainless Black 15G / 1.8mm

Hub (Front)

• Formula CL-811 / 15x110mm

Hub (Rear)

• Formula CL-3248 / 12x148mm

Rims

• Syncros X-30SE / 32H / 30mm

Rear Shock

• X-Fusion NUDE 5 RLX Trunnion
• SCOTT custom w. travel / geo adj.
• 3 modes: Lockout-Traction Control-Descend
• Reb. Adj.
• Travel 120-80-Lockout / T165X45mm

Remote System

• SCOTT TwinLoc 2 Technology
• Suspension & Dropper Remote
• 3 Suspension modes

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