Cannondale Single Fork Road Bike
The fork was good the frame was nice but combined with the wheels none of it ever seemed to work in harmony.
Cannondale single fork road bike. Another con is that you re entirely at the mercy of cannondale when it comes to spare parts there s no way to swap the fork for one that s still maintainable. The slate features cannondale s new road specific lefty oliver fork. The right choice for any bike if you re serious about xc the lefty ocho will take your performance to a whole new level. Up front there s a new incarnation of cannondale s single sided lefty fork with 30mm of travel which should be enough to improve comfort and road holding on dirt roads and frost hammered uk country lanes.
The single crown ocho is the latest iteration of cannondale s single sided fork. Its tapered steerer and single crown design make it an easy upgrade for virtually any modern xc bike. Cannondale unveils the world s first single side single crown suspension fork the new lefty ocho on its latest xc hardtail the f si mountain bike. To be honest it was one of our least favorite bikes to date.
That single sided fork may put people off but bicycles are one of the few forms of transport where these aren t the norm. 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 use sub fork was a pretty wild looking single legged fork. Which is fine if you buy a new bike every couple of years but if you ride the bike until it wears out it s likely to be can t maintain the fork that means you repleace the bike.
A few years later cannondale went big and introduced the slate as a hybrid road gravel bike that rolled on 650b wheels with a lefty fork upfront. Make offer cannondale lefty 2 0 carbon xlr 100mm 29er mountain bike fork 2016 2017 blk grn cannondale si slice ultra 700c carbon fork 1 1 8 210mm steer tube black 119 99. Instead of having the square legged design that cannondale use it used a regular telescopic leg but utilised a linkage that both stopped the fork diving under braking and helped stop flex.