The folks at Bike mag think that Scott's Ransom LTD is the kind of high-zoot full-boinger special agent 007 would be proud to jump on for some trail-blazing action. As they put it: "If James Bond ever swung a leg over a mountain bike, it would have to be the Scott Ransom LTD. The carbon fibre frame boasts as much technology as any gadget ever created by officer Q of the British Secret Service. Just imagine communist diamond smugglers trying to escape through rough alpine singletrack. Bond would surely jump cyclocross style onto the Ransom -- tuxedo and all -- flip the handlebar-mounted switch from locked out to the full 165 millimeters of rear travel and blast down an exposed ridgeline, drifting through corners as fist-sized rocks fall hundreds of feet into the trailside abyss. The communists would be aboard Russian titanium hardtails; there'd be no escaping Bond
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