Cannondale Lefty History

After powering his cannondale to four stage victories at the 1999 tour the flamboyant saeco team leader proclaimed cannondale is the best bike with a reputation for shaking up the industry we continued to push the entire cycling community with the release of our first carbon aluminum frame the six13 flaunting the low weight with prison striped jerseys that read.

Cannondale lefty history. The cannondale lefty fork is great bit of mountain bike marketing that draws as much attention now as it did in 2000. Cannondale キャノンデール 2021年モデル topstone carbon lefty トップストーンカーボンレフティー 情報解禁 店舗に入荷しています. While at this year s sea otter classic we tracked down doug. Ron a polymath and a gifted mechanical designer inventor had ideas for an internal combustion engine that would use ammonia as fuel.

Although the single sided cannondale lefty fork has been in production for a decade it s still a misunderstood piece of technology. Cannondale lefty fork technology and history heisenberg. Widely regarded as the bike industry s leading innovator of game changing technologies cannondale and its handcrafted bicycles continue to innovate across mountain road and electric bikes. The ocho is the eighth iteration of the cannondale lefty in a cross country guise and alongside many internal updates has made a move from a dual crown design to a single crown giving the fork.

Our lightest lefty the speed carbon xlr weighs an unbelievable 1250g even our heaviest lefty at 1445 grams is lighter than most of our competitors lightest race offerings. The company was founded in 1971 by joe montgomery and murdock macgregor to manufacture precast concrete housing. Find great deals on ebay for cannondale lefty max 140. Later ron davis came to cannondale from cbs laboratories where he was vp in charge of the development of microfilm reproduction.

The rest is history.