Scott Patron ST 910

The Patron ST 910 is Scott's answer for riders who want a full-power e-MTB built around the descent rather than the climb. It pairs 170mm of front travel with 150mm at the rear, a carbon main frame with an alloy rear triangle, and an 800Wh Bosch battery, all wrapped around genuinely aggressive trail tyres. If your rides involve long, punishing climbs followed by rough, technical descents where you want the bike to feel settled rather than skittish, this is a sensible place to look.

Suspension, tyres and brakes for serious descents

The 170mm RockShox Domain R Air fork is the headline here: it's more travel than you'll find on some rivals in this price bracket, and it's paired with a RockShox SuperDeluxe DebonAir shock offering 150mm at the back with rebound adjustment. Scott has fitted a proper descending tyre combination too, running a Schwalbe Magic Mary Gravity up front and an Albert Gravity out back, both in soft-compound Radial casings designed for grip over outright rolling speed. Braking comes from Shimano Deore four-piston callipers on 220mm front and 203mm rear rotors, which is a sensible oversizing for a bike that's going to be carrying an e-bike's extra mass down long descents. One practical limit worth knowing: the Patron ST platform's manual rules out fitting a coil shock, so this is an air-shock bike by design, not just by spec sheet.

Bosch power, battery and what 1050Wh really means

Assistance comes from Bosch's Performance Line CX motor running the Smart System, with a removable 800Wh PowerTube battery and a 4A charger. That's the capacity that's actually fitted and ready to ride. Scott also quotes a combined figure of up to 1050Wh, but that number only applies once you've added a separate 250Wh Bosch PowerMore battery and its mounting hardware, which isn't included at this price and isn't something to assume you're getting out of the box. There's no stated distance or riding-time range for the fitted 800Wh either, so treat the battery size as a useful comparison point against other e-MTBs rather than a promise of how far you'll get on a given ride.

A simpler drivetrain, plus what's not fitted

Where the pricier Patron 910 and Patron ST 900 lean on SRAM's electronic AXS Transmission, the ST 910 keeps things mechanical with a Shimano Deore 12-speed setup, a 10-51 cassette and a 36-tooth chainring. That's a genuine trade-off worth understanding rather than a downgrade to worry about: mechanical Deore is simpler and cheaper to service than an electronic drivetrain, at the cost of the instant, load-sensing shifts AXS offers. It's also worth being clear about what this build doesn't include. Scott's wider ST-family marketing talks about ABS Pro braking and a TracLoc suspension remote, but neither is listed in the ST 910's actual specification, those features belong to the pricier ST 900. What you do get fitted as standard is a Syncros dropper post, an integrated rear fender light, and a front-light cable that's already run through the frame, so adding a front light later is a straightforward job rather than a full rewiring project.

Finding your size

Scott publishes full geometry for this bike across S, M, L and XL, but doesn't give height or inseam bands on this product, directing riders instead to a body-measurement fitting approach. That means working from the reach, stack and standover figures against your own proportions, or against a bike you already know fits well, rather than reading off a simple height chart. The dropper post travel and handlebar rise also step up through the size range, so a smaller frame isn't just a scaled-down version of a larger one, it's set up with proportionally shorter dropper travel and a lower bar to match.

Which ST 910 - and which Scott - is this?

Scott's UK catalogue currently lists two ST 910 entries: this £6,199 carbon-main-frame build, and an earlier £5,999 version with an alloy frame. They're not interchangeable specifications, so it's worth checking which one an offer actually refers to before comparing prices. Within Scott's own range, the 'ST' naming signals a more descent-focused setup than the 150mm-fork Patron 910, and this £6,199 build sits below the £9,299 Patron ST 900, which adds a burlier fork and shock along with the ABS Pro and drivetrain upgrades mentioned above.

Living with it

At a claimed weight of around 25.3kg, this isn't a bike you'll want to be lifting onto a roof rack solo very often, and Scott sets a 130kg maximum system weight covering the bike, rider, kit and any luggage together. On the ownership side, the frame and rear-end guarantee needs the first buyer to register within a year of purchase, and the full five-year cover drops to three if you skip annual servicing at an authorised dealer, so it's worth registering and booking that first service in alongside all the fun stuff, given how much technical riding this bike is built to take on.