Cannondale Mountain Bike Single Fork

Single fork bike hey yall a bit ago i picked up a mountain bike mag forget which one.

Cannondale mountain bike single fork. This is a gross oversimplification but will suffice. A single sided fork can t work the same way as a normal dual stanchioned fork because a single stanchion within an outer housing would simply spin. The cannondale lefty fork has long been an enigma in mountain biking. Not that i can affordit just wanted to check it out agian.

The result is a fork with the stiffness to go and the give to flow. Courtesy the xc lefty ocho was redesigned in 2018 moving from a dual crown to a single crown fork and dropping. It may look weird to the uninitiated but those who have used it often rave about its performance. The single crown ocho is the latest iteration of cannondale s single sided fork.

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. The cannondale lefty fork is great bit of mountain bike marketing that draws as much attention now as it did in 2000. The single legged fork must truly withstand heavier bending forces than conventional forks simply due to physics and asymmetricity. Ive been trying to find it.

And the truth is most who try the fork are surprised by it s performance even those who dig heels in. We sat down with jeremiah boobar from cannondale to get the lowdown on the strangest fork in the mountain biking market. And the feature bike had a single fork bike or instead of a fork it had only 1 rod goin to the wheel do ya know this bike. Make offer cannondale chromoly road tandem bike fork 1 x 6 5 8 x 700c in nice condition cannondale chromoly road tandem bike fork 1 1 8 x 6 5 8 x 700c in nice condit 78 88.

The top is attached like a dual crown downhill fork which is much stiffer than a single crown. For the ocho that improvement comes in the shape of a triangle. Its tapered steerer and single crown design make it an easy upgrade for virtually any modern xc bike. Cannondale saw this as an opportunity to improve upon the traditional fork model.