Cannondale Lefty Ocho Bike
The right choice for any bike if you re serious about xc the lefty ocho will take your performance to a whole new level.
Cannondale lefty ocho bike. Its tapered steerer and single crown design make it an easy upgrade for virtually any modern xc bike. 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. Project321 has a fix for that. When i owned my slate i did their steerer conversion and it saved the bike for me.
The carbon option weighs 1 446 grams while the alloy is 1 735. The lefty ocho which is available for both 27 5 and 29 wheels is a single crown single sided cross country fork with 100mm of travel that can be had in either carbon fiber or aluminum flavors. Xcc short track en vallnord uci mountain bike world cup 2018 duration. The ocho is available in two versions the ocho carbon and the ocho alloy.
Its heart is still the single sided lefty fork that gets a ground up redesign shedding weight with a single crown a regular 1 5 tapered steerer. Up until now lefty s have been dual crown forks. Kuznetsov vladimir 95 624 views. Cannondale s new lefty ocho is the first single sided single crown fork on the market.
All you need is a compatible front wheel and an appetite for speed. The all new lefty ocho. The single crown design lets the ocho fit any modern cross country bike whereas the old dual crown lefty was a pia on that front. For my trail bike i would not use a lefty and give up the flexibility of tuning maintenance configuration etc that a traditional fork has.
Performance wise i ve got nothing to moan about. 2018 all new cannondale lefty ocho fork. Cannondale lefty ocho and the future of the lefty. The bike has gone from good to great looking back at the last 3 generations we ve tested.
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.