The Gambler has support but it plays out its travel seamlessly, orchestrating grip to G–out, gas–to–flat without missing a note. You need to feel the beat, but when you get in tune with the tempo of this bike it is breathless requiring nothing but total focus. Because it’s not a copy, a repeat of something that’s gone before it, we must return with a click and with a clock to get some head to heads in the bag timing wise. I feel this is a fast one. It’s no easy bike to ride at first, but it comes; in an instant you’ll find yourself getting carried into a sea of carnage without a game plan but with a solid break out plot.

Just because things have been done a certain way for years does not mean that it is the best for everyone everywhere.

There are better bikes for the tight, the slow, the regular GB slop, and even though Scott have included movement for a steeper, higher setting, it kind of constrains the bike, for the Gambler wasn’t made for hanging about. Its not so easy turning a hard and fast living head banger into a piccolo player. And that’s pretty much all I have to say on the matter, for now at least. Here’s a few pieces of detail that I picked out of the press info: >>