The Spot Diggity is an all-new trail bike with 140/125mm of suspension travel front/rear. With its exclusive Living Link suspension design and unique frame features that minimize the number of threaded inserts molded into the carbon frame, the Diggity promises a refined trail-riding experience and “the most efficient climbing platform we’ve ever engineered,” according to the brand.
Living Link 3.0
The Spot Diggity is the Colorado-based brand’s tenth bike to feature Living Link, an exclusive suspension design that Spot created ten years ago. Now on its third generation, Living Link delivers “advanced anti-squat and leverage rate curves with a fraction of the parts, weight, and complexity than any other contemporary design,” according to the brand. This page on the Spot website lays out the technical details of Living Link.
Sitting between the Ryve downcountry bike and the 140mm Mayhem trail bike, the Diggity is the second Spot to feature Living Link 3.0. The Mayhem was the first to get the latest-gen suspension design with a structural member known as the “Slaybar” connecting the downtube to the seat tube. The Diggity moves the Slaybar below the shock mount and centers it so the frame flexes evenly.
Spot says the Diggity fits longer-travel dropper posts than their previous full-suspension designs. This is likely due, in part, to the lower Slaybar position, as well as to shorter seat tubes across all sizes.
Making the most of a tight space
The Slaybar essentially creates a tiny triangle within a triangle above the bottom bracket, and Spot makes the most of this space. A custom frame bag from JPaks will be available to fill the void, or you can mount your own accessory tool roll using the hardware shown above right. Spot uses a similar bit of hardware for the bottle mount on the Mayhem; on the Diggity, the bottle mount moves directly onto the downtube above the shock mount.
A second bottle mount is located on the underside of the downtube near the bottom bracket. The Spot Diggity does not feature in-frame storage.
Obsessively clean hardware
Spot minimizes the number of metal threads molded into their frames, which presumably simplifies manufacturing and makes stripped threads less of a nightmare. So instead of securing cable ports to the frame, a single bolt threads through the frame and attaches the ports on both sides of the frame as show above. And a unique piece of brake-mount hardware sits inside the non-driveside dropout, eliminating one of the frame’s threaded brake mounts.
The Spot Diggity utilizes six pivot bearings, and they’re all the same size. The bearings are housed within the links, rather than the frame, for easier maintenance. All of the fasteners are on the non-driveside to give the bike a cleaner look.
The upshot is a size large frame that weighs 5.3lb without the shock. Plus, Spot says the Diggity has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any bike they’ve tested.
The claimed weight of the top-end complete bike build is 28.4lb. The least-expensive, 4-star build, has a claimed weight that’s just a hair over 30lb.
Spot Diggity geometry
The Spot Diggity shares similar geometry to the shorter travel Ryve and longer travel Mayhem. In fact, all three bikes sport the same reach across the size range (with the exception of the size small Ryve), with a size large Diggity’s reach stretching 475mm. All three Spot full suspension bikes have the same chainstay length, 435mm.
The Diggity matches the Mayhem’s 65.2° head tube angle and effective seat tube angle, which varies from 76.5° to 77.5° depending on frame size.
Where the Diggity stands out from other bikes in the Spot lineup is the bottom bracket height. At 337mm, it’s lower than both the Ryve and Mayhem, promising improved handling and a more “in-the-bike” feel. Though a lower bottom bracket increases the risk of pedal strikes, many riders are choosing shorter crank lengths anyway. All Diggity builds ship with 170mm cranks.
Brand new, but already discounted
In what’s surely a sign of the times, the all-new Spot Diggity is already on sale. The Spot website shows prices marked down roughly 7% for framesets and complete builds. The pricing strategy isn’t entirely surprising, given that today’s mountain bike buyers have been trained to expect discounts.
A Spot Diggity frameset is priced at $3,799, on sale for $3,533. Complete builds are currently priced between $5,858 and $9,299. The Diggity is available for purchase on the Spot website.
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