What We Ride: Evergreen Outland Scout
Loaded for Bear
Seven's Outland is our favored design for riding 24 hours at a time in any 3-season conditions and any terrain. Through unexpected terrain.
The description may sound like a bikepacking rig. Seven's Expedition 758d bike, for example. Sort of. But we look at the Outland Scout as a bikepacking bike without the packs. It's not a camping bike. This bike is all about the self-sufficient ride, nothing about the destination. More accurately, the ride and destination are the same. The mission is to keep riding, clear the trail, and find the best route.
Sure, this is an oddly specific design mission, but for some of us, it's the one that's needed, and we won't trade it for anything. Maybe it's the bike we all need.
Expecting The Unexpected
New England trails are sometimes primitive. When we're scouting for the next big ride, the search often entails clearing the trail, cutting deadfall, riding hours from safe water sources, and choosing an impromptu dispersed camp spot for a four-hour sleep.
What sets apart the Outland Scout from our standard gravel Evergreen 753?
- Bike geometry altered for a slight bias of more weight on the bike's front end rather than placing everything in a difficult-to-access saddle bag or large frame bag.
- Lower trail than a typical gravel design. This subtle adjustment makes the front end handle more predictably and confidently when loaded.
- Tubeset adjusted for a smoother ride than a typical Seven. 20-plus hours in the saddle means smoothness is sovereign. All while retaining our popular oversized and extra-stiff drivetrain.
- Tubeset adjusted for increased front-end torsion resistance to counteract the added gear weight up front. All while retaining the Scout's smooth ride.
- Fork has mounts for bottle cages or everything cages.
These mods are not a radical departure from our popular models, but the difference between good and best can be a matter of degrees.
If you're interested in the Outland Scout modifications, order whichever gravel model you prefer, and include a note about the no-charge Scout design mods.
The pictured Scout loadout includes:
- Wood saw: actually two of them. One 7" folding saw in the bar bag and the 13" fixed-blade saw on the down tube.
- Water purifier & emergency purification tabs: Our current obsession. We're doing more and more primitive rides where there are no stores, libraries, gas stations. The only water source is probably a stream.
- Nearly 5 liters of water.
- Sleep system: poly-al bivy & bug head net
- Water purification system & water purification tabs
- Bear spray & bear bell
- 2x all-night lights
- Garmin InReach tracker
- Toilet kit & trowel
- Tick repellent
- 2x power banks
- 4.5" folding knife
- 2x gps units
- Rain jacket
- Fire starting kit
- Tool kit & flat fix
- 24 hours of food. That's a bunch of bars.
- Full frame camera. Those who know, know.
What might initially look like a Swiss Army Knife is actually more of a scalpel. As its name suggests, the Scout is ready for that task.
Made in the USA. Our founding team has been building bikes in Massachusetts for over three and a half decades. There are a lot of reasons we build bikes this way. In the end, all that really matters is whether you can feel the difference in the ride. We find that most riders do.
