2022 Emtb Shootout - SCOR 4060 Z LT XT Review

I first saw the SCOR 4060 Z LT eBike at Sea Otter Classic last October and was instantly impressed. In fact, it was the first time I’d seen any SCOR mountain bike. The entire SCOR MTB lineup was beautiful, and they looked like very fun bikes to ride. We poked around the booth and were lucky enough to get connected with their marketing department who agreed to send us a bike for our 2022 eMTB Shootout. We selected their longer travel, enduro eBike, which sports 160mm of rear wheel travel with 170mm of travel up front and a well-balanced geometry and spec recipe and some pretty respectable pricing compared to other offerings in the current eMTB market.

For those also unfamiliar, the SCOR Mountain Bike brand was a bit of a passion-fueled side project of BMC Bicycles, that has given birth to one of the most fun bikes in this year’s eBike Shootout. BMC Bicycles is an elite-level bike brand known for their incredibly light, and beautiful cross-country and road bikes. As it worked out, some of BMC’s more shreddy R&D department employees grew restless knowing that the brand they worked for didn’t have bikes that catered to their style of riding. They set out to create a line of bikes under a new flag, designed to play in the steep, tight and technical trails of the local Jura Mountains in Switzerland. When a new bike brand launches with one good looking bike it’s pretty exciting for us bike nerds, however when a new company launches with trail, enduro, and two eBike options, then we get really excited. So, let’s see how that excitement played out during our 2022 eMTB Shootout.

THE DIRT
From the first moment we saw the SCOR MTB line we were in love. Whether it’s the electric or standard mountain bike offerings, SCOR have created lust worthy mountain bikes that ride as good as they look. Our first day out on the SCOR 4060 was during a Trail bike test day and we didn’t even tell the testers they were on an Enduro category bike. They were bopping and playing all over the trails, moving quickly through flatter sections of trail and enjoying the snappy and lively feel. It wasn’t until the end of the day they found out this was a 160/170mm bike that was part of the Enduro group. This is quite a testament to the light and lively suspension platform and competitive weight of the 4060 Z LT.

The downside to that playfulness did present itself on the chunkiest and gnarliest of downhill tracks at Windrock Bike Park. Perhaps a burlier shock spec would have helped keep the rear end a bit calmer but we’re betting that the shortest chainstays of the shootout had more to do with it. The average chainstay length is 448.2mm and the SCOR’s sit at just 435. Most bikes are in the mid 450-460 range, and the difference was noted. While it made the bike handle like a shorter travel trail bike on a majority of trails, those regularly bombing the gnarliest downhill trails they can find, may have issue.

Some of our testers would be part of our party-train laps at Windrock and doing fine until the trail dropped or got excessively chunky. At the point we found ourselves fighting hard to keep up speed and slowly realizing, “I’m just gonna tap the brakes and have fun.” Once at that slightly slower speed, gaps, jumps and jibs opened up and we began to forget the freight train of race bikes leaving us and we had fun just styling everything we could get airtime off of.

[ This is just a short snippet of our written review. For the full write-up, visit the site. ]

Weight as Tested: 51.5 lbs
Review: https://theloamwolf.com/2022/05/27/scor-4060-z-lt-xt-2022-emtb-shootout/
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