Scott Spark RC Team Issue
In stock at 2 shops in Miami and New York City
Prices and stock checked Oct 22.
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The Scott Spark RC Team Issue Bike is Gen5 Spark RC — Scott's most successful cross-country race platform — built to a spec that professional team mechanics would recognize: capable, race-ready, and calibrated for performance over a full season rather than the obsessive weight pursuit of the top-tier SL. The frame architecture, Flight Attendant suspension, and geometry are the same as the rest of the RC lineup. The Team Issue arrives with a component spec where the differences show up in material grades and component tiers, not in what the bike fundamentally is or how it rides.
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The frame is Spark RC HMF carbon, Gen5 — Scott's high-modulus layup, purpose-built for XC competition. The suspension architecture is shared across the entire RC family: a short-link linkage rotating around the bottom bracket, with a pivot positioned just below the crankset. A flex pivot handles the first millimeter of small-bump travel — the constant chatter that accumulates over a race lap and wears you down before the finish — before transitioning progressively through the remaining 120mm. The rear shock mounts inside the downtube, where the frame is already reinforced against pedaling forces, which keeps the system compact and the weight distribution centered. The headset includes a ±0.5° angle-adjust that can bring the head tube as slack as 65.4° for courses mixing technical descents into the XC loop. Syncros Octopus Gen2 cable routing runs all lines fully internally through the headset, color-coded and flexible — a clean front end that reduces friction and simplifies trailside setup. The frame uses a BSA bottom bracket shell, 12x148mm rear spacing, and UDH derailleur interface.
Flight Attendant is the defining technology in the Gen5 Spark RC lineup, and it's fully present on the Team Issue. The RockShox SID Ultimate Flight Attendant fork — FA Race Day 3P damper, 15x110mm Maxle Stealth — and SIDLuxe Ultimate Flight Attendant rear shock (190x45mm, Solo Air) use accelerometers and wireless…
