SCOTT Acquires Syncros Components

SCOTT Shifts Gears to Components

Date: 2012-01-03

SCOTT Acquires Syncros

SUN VALLEY, ID — January 3rd, 2012— SCOTT Sports today announced it will shift gears in the aftermarket bike accessories business and take over the Syncros brand to become a major supplier in the parts and accessories market. Syncros was founded in 1986 by Peter Hamilton and Pippin Osborne as a small, high-end components company on Vancouver’s North Shore. After a few changes in ownership, Tom Ritchey made the most recent buy in 2003, and under his guidance, Syncros returned to its roots as a leading manufacturer of high end mountain bike components focused on the All Mountain, Freeride, and Downhill categories.

SCOTT will give Syncros the necessary support to design outstanding products and will enlarge the line by expanding into Cross Country and Road categories. A dedicated design and engineering team has been created, and they have already begun developing innovative products for future Syncros lines. The products will be built to reflect SCOTT’s high standards for technology while also keeping top-to-bottom integration in mind. This type of product integration will cultivate new levels of innovation, adding further value to SCOTT bikes.

“We have always believed that the Syncros name has had an excellent image in the industry,” adds SCOTT Sports Vice President, Pascal Ducrot. “Our priority was to find a way to increase our offering of parts and accessories while still maintaining our relationship with Ritchey, our long-term partner.  The purchase of Syncros was the perfect solution and we look forward to offering our dealers a full line of new parts and accessories with the same high quality standards as our bikes.”

Syncros will be distributed through the SCOTT network of dedicated dealers around the globe. SCOTT currently offers dealers a full range of bikes, clothing, bike shoes, and helmets. The addition of Syncros parts and accessories will further strengthen this package, giving dealers more to offer. SCOTT will present the complete range of new Syncros products to the public during the 2012 Eurobike show.

Interesting news from the originally Vancouver-based components company, and hopefully another positive move after the Ritchey acquisition moved Syncros forward in 2003. Fond memories about Syncros and the old days? Get into story time below...

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Posted by pipeline at 06:15 PM on 01-03-2012
still got my synchros micro-adjustable seatpost on the commuter bike... from 1994 or so?
Posted by PUNKY at 10:44 PM on 01-03-2012
Do Syncros still manufacture parts in BC or is it all overseas crap now?
Posted by FullMonty at 12:15 AM on 01-04-2012
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Originally Posted by PUNKY (Post 2604072)
Do Syncros still manufacture parts in BC or is it all overseas crap now?
:damn: are you fo real?

but yeah, they were basically Ritchey's "gravity" brand of taiwan forged parts - since whenever the last "rebirth" they had was.
Posted by gary j at 08:43 AM on 01-04-2012
over priced, over enginered, over weight parts, for an over priced over enginered bikes.
Posted by PUNKY at 09:14 PM on 01-04-2012
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Originally Posted by FullMonty (Post 2604094)
:damn: are you fo real?

but yeah, they were basically Ritchey's "gravity" brand of taiwan forged parts - since whenever the last "rebirth" they had was.
There was meant to be way more esarc than I typed out
Posted by Oldfart at 08:57 AM on 01-05-2012
I thought Ritchey was owned by Dia Compe?
Posted by xy9ine at 09:58 AM on 01-05-2012
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Originally Posted by pipeline (Post 2603976)
still got my synchros micro-adjustable seatpost on the commuter bike... from 1994 or so?
i've got a few vintage vancouver built syncros bits kicking about - seatposts, steerhorns, a couple (150mm) cattleprod stems, a shotgun bar (straight tube, no bends), and a ti bb. i lament selling the forks. would still love a set of the steel revolution cranks. some of the best components you could buy back in the day.
Posted by boomforeal at 10:19 AM on 01-05-2012
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Originally Posted by pipeline (Post 2603976)
still got my synchros micro-adjustable seatpost on the commuter bike... from 1994 or so?
i had one from that generation, put a lot of miles on it. finally retired after it pooped the bed in an xc race last spring

http://bb.nsmb.com/attachment.php?at...1&d=1325787551

a buddy bent his new generation syncros post on that little drop climbing hwy 102 on the sunshine coast... 'course his was only a few months old :lol:
Posted by tazzmenn at 10:38 AM on 01-05-2012
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Originally Posted by boomforeal (Post 2604545)
i had one from that generation, put a lot of miles on it. finally retired after it pooped the bed in an xc race last spring

http://bb.nsmb.com/attachment.php?at...1&d=1325787551

a buddy bent his new generation syncros post on that little drop climbing hwy 102 on the sunshine coast... 'course his was only a few months old :lol:
Ya, my vintage Syncros post met the same fate a few months ago on the climb up the woodlot. Zip ties and first aid tape helped me carry on with the adventure.
Posted by Oldfart at 02:33 PM on 01-05-2012
I went through two one year. Both cracked at the insertion of the head and the head fell right off. Replaced with the titanium version. That went the distance.