Cannondale Jekyll Carbon 3 Test
The jekyll has burly maxxis tires ready to take on any racecourse and a pair of sram guide brakes to keep this wild steed under control.
Cannondale jekyll carbon 3 test. Ibis ripmo af vs. Cannondale jekyll carbon 29 3 2020 hello. Chief among them is its ai rear end. Cannondale s habit had a refresh in 2018 losing flexy chainstays and gaining a regular four bar suspension linkage the carbon 3 comes with a ballistec carbon front triangle cannondale s.
With 150mm travel and 42mm offest and three position adjustment the fox 36 is up to. The jekyll 29 has a 355 millimeter bottom bracket height with just 16 millimeters of bottom bracket drop. We don t expect a company like cannondale to blindly follow industry trends but this did stand out to testers. The jekyll 29 3 cannondale s most budget friendly build comes with a fox float performance 36 fork.
Cannondale shied away from making the jekyll 29 a multi wheel style bike so there s no flip chip and you can t stuff 27 5 plus tires into this frame. My 2019 cannondale jekyll carbon 29 3. Canyon spectral al pinkbike field test duration. If your style is more over than around then this is.
Some of the other bikes in the test have up to 30 millimeters of bb drop all of which had more travel. The frame uses 148 millimeter spacing but the wheel is dished 3 millimeters toward the. We glad to introduce you a cannondale jekyll carbon 29 3 2020 model year. Cannondale jekyll 29 3 2018.
Cannondale s choice in cockpit components has improved for 2015 with a 50mm long fsa gravity light stem but the 740mm wide cannondale c1 carbon bars are still too narrow for many riders. With asymmetric integration the drivetrain is shifted out 3 millimeters. The problem with the jekyll 3 is that for just 200 more you can upgrade to the base level carbon model the jekyll 2 which seems like a no brainer to us just for the frame saving a couple of. It might look normal for a cannondale but the habit still has some unique features besides proportional response.