New colourways and package for the Scott Contessa girls’s MTB vary

Contessa is Scott Sport’s girls’s particular line, encompassing bikes, equipment and clothes, and the brand new 2023 Contessa Signature Assortment – a premium capsule assortment – has simply been unveiled.

Throughout the vary are girls’s particular mountain bike shorts, trousers, quick and long-sleeved jerseys, gloves, in addition to unisex helmets and footwear, plus bikes together with the Scott Contessa Spark RC World Cup bike, and the Scott Contessa Lumen eRIDE 900 electrical mountain bike.

The Contessa vary spans street and gravel too, although for apparent causes we’re simply focussing on the mountain bike providing.

The color palette is what unites the gathering, and relies on a color Scott calls ‘prism unicorn purple’ paired with black. Scott states that the color is “robust, but additionally light-weight and glowing as bikes must also be. With this assortment, we need to rejoice robust girls on the bike, in addition to the group round it.”

And, since this can be a premium assortment, the bikes included are the vary toppers, so anticipate premium efficiency and a premium value to match.

Contessa Signature Assortment clothes

The ladies’s clothes vary dimension goes from XS to XL, akin to a UK8 – 10 or US6 – 14.

 

The 2 jerseys within the vary each characteristic the signature color sample on the sleeves with a black physique. The Path Contessa Signal lengthy sleeve jersey is constructed from Polartec Delta cloth, designed to facilitate cooling and breathability, plus built-in goggle wipe.

The Contessa Signal Anorak WB girls’s jacket is a packable, stowable windproof in black with ‘unicorn’ highlights, and options PFC-free DWR coating.

For the legs, the Path Contessa Signal girls’s pants are constructed from sturdy four-way stretch cordura, with an elasticated part on the waist for a greater, safer match. Just like the anorak, it options PFC-free DWR coating to assist ward of rain and splashes, and has two zipped pockets.

Ending off the gathering in complementary colors are the Traction Contessa Signal gloves, Path Contessa Signal shorts, and the Stego, Tago and Argo mountain bike helmets.

Contessa Signature Assortment bikes

There are 4 mountain bikes within the Signature Assortment, and all of them are premium fashions.

These embody the Scott Contessa Spark RC World Cup bike, an XC-focussed and race profitable carbon-framed bike with RockShox SID Choose+ RL3 forks with 120mm journey, plus RockShox Nude 5 RL3 shock with 120mm journey. SRAM X01 Eagle AXS wi-fi 12speed groupset and SRAM Stage disc brakes full the construct.

The Scott Contessa Genius ST 910 is the trail- and all-mountain prepared mannequin, with carbon body, Shimano XT four-piston brakes, 160mm forks within the type of Fox 36 P Elite Grip2, with a Fox Float X Nude TracLoc shock controlling 150mm of rear journey. The construct is completed off with SRAM GX Eagle AXS 12speed groupset.

On the electrical mountain bike entrance, there’s the Scott Contessa Lumen eRide 900, a comparatively light-weight mid-powered e-bike with Fox 34 Float Rhythem 130mm fork and Fox Nude 5T Evol 130mm shock, Shimano XT-Deore groupset and Deore 4-piston disc brakes.

And the Scott Contessa Patron eRide 900, with Fox 38 Efficiency Elite 160mm forks, Fox Nude T eRide EVOL shock with 160mm journey, Shimano XT groupset and brakes, and powered by a Bosch CX drive unit.

All bikes can be found in sizes S, M and L, for a really useful rider top vary of 165cm – 195cm.

Scott’s strategy to girls’s bike design is a unisex body with ending package and spec chosen to swimsuit the wants of smaller riders.

“From the start of Contessa, our bike product staff determined to concentrate on the rider’s dimension, and what particular wants include smaller sizes,” feedback Chloe Lepany, Ladies’s Advertising Coordinator for Scott.

“For our Contessa bikes, we determined to concentrate on the common top and driving fashion of small riders. After all, we’re fully conscious of exceptions.”

Lepany explains that throughout the Contessa vary there could also be variations in parts like crank size and chain ring dimension to swimsuit smaller dimension bikes and riders. New suspension know-how means, in line with Lepany, that the inherent vary of adjustment inside the forks and shock imply that there isn’t a longer a necessity for a lighter ‘girls’s’ tune, which has been a characteristic on many ladies’s particular mountain bikes traditionally.

The Scott Contessa Signature Assortment is accessible now from the Scott web site.