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Fast on tarmac and off-road, the Addict Gravel incorporates many of the concepts behind the Pro Tour Addict RC, blending these with off-road design. The Addict Gravel’s ride is fast. Blisteringly fast. It’s at its absolute pinnacle when the gravel roads are open, straight and speedy. It accelerates with a road-bike whip, while being able to get down into a flat-backed aero position helps maintain the pace you’ve built. This gives it true all-roader appeal – you could easily use the Addict Gravel as a gravel racer, or a perfectly competent performance road bike. Tight, twisty singletrack isn’t the Addict’s forte – the long ride position just isn’t ideal for more technical trails.

The Scott Addict Gravel 30 features an aerodynamically optimised frame design, which brings the integration between frame and fork and the internal cable routing from the Addict RC. The ride position is long and low, but with plenty of tyre clearance, accommodating up to 45mm measured-width clearance.The frameset uses aero-optimised tubes throughout, employing Scott’s own patented take on airfoil shapes.The tapering seat tube has plenty of the truncated airfoil about it, whereas the down tube has a more muscular squared-off profile (albeit with smooth curves on the edges). Scott has optimised the carbon layup in both the fork legs and seatstays to provide a bit of compliance to minimise vibrations from poor surfaces.

The Shimano GRX RX600 drivetrain is Shimano’s gravel equivalent of 105. It’s a solid-performing, sharp-shifting gravel groupset that simply works well. The 2x setup of the 30 suits the bike well. The 46/30-tooth chainring combination matched to an 11-34t cassette gives a solid range for off-road duties. The lowest (less than 1:1 ratio) 30/34t gear can take you up the steepest ramps, both on and off-road; 46/11t is ample to hit a high pace off-road and keep up with many slick-tyred riders on tarmac The GRX400 hydraulic brakes are solid performers, with power aplenty and a good level of feel and progressive power through the lever travel.

The Syncros RP2.0 Disc wheels are from Syncros’ road stable, while the shallow 24mm rims are tubeless-ready and have a 19mm internal width. The 45mm-wide Schwalbe G-One Bite gravel tyres are about as wide as you’d want to go on these rims (and hit the upper limit of claimed frame clearance). They shape up well, spreading outwards from the rim without getting to an unstable lightbulb shapThe G-One Bite is a fine three-season gravel option. The studded tread is spread broadly on the tyre's shoulders, which provides good grip in loose or wet gravel conditions. The centre tread is still wider spaced than the standard G-One, but its shallow depth and interlocking hexagonal stud pattern rolls well on tarmac with no squirm or slide when you up the pace.