We had the opportunity to take a couple of runs on the Voltage FR10 with Scott USA’s marketing manager, Adrian Montgomery, during July’s Crankworx Colorado. While we rode the Winter Park resort’s more traditional gravity runs in the Trestle bike park, including its downhill course, the Voltage FR10 (in its 180mm travel mode) showed no significant signs of being out of place even while drifting fire road corners at, what this rider thought were, breakneck speeds or picking through the slows speed rocks and roots of the resort’s undulating wooded trails. Voltage FR line keeps pace with the Voltage hardtails in terms of progressive paint schemes and the style required to get the kids all excited, which completes a necessary requirement of the park package. So Voltage FR has the travel, versatility and look this demographic needs, but at a price that will surely make the lifelong soul riders and the parents of those progressive kids smile. — Matt Pacocha
