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Well, it was almost inevitable, wasn't it?

[url= http://www.bikerumor.com/2015/06/11/cannondale-heading-down-a-new-road-w-lefty/ ]Saucy linky [/url]


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 6:19 pm
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i reckon i could do 99% of my riding on that,


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 6:24 pm
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While I could do 99% of my riding on that too, at least 90% would be better on a different bike.


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 6:27 pm
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Bugger, I've just bought a SuperX CX1. I could have had a creaking BB AND SUSPENSION!


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 6:31 pm
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Excellent. I have one of these already, albeit with a flat bar!


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 6:36 pm
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Its a drop bar xc bike with less tire clearance?


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 7:31 pm
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TBF a lefty will be pretty good for tyre clearance...

But I'm really not sure bouncey forks for CX bikes is [i]"Quite Right"[/i] Can't help it, discs are fine but bounce seems like it takes it too close to being an MTB...

Please tell me "Gnarmac" isn't a thing either, I don't reckon I could live in a world where that term was used without Ironic intent...


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:00 pm
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Cookeaa, but it's not a CX bike, it's a New Road bike (or [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/enduro-road-road-plus-new-road-seriously ]gnarmac here[/url]).


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:04 pm
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Like the idea, if anyone was to do it Dale" would. Have to say it's a bit of a cracker, could see me doing a lot with the bike but then the purist in me stabs me in the neck and says "stick with a proper CX'er you wimp"
And it ends there.

Still nice bike though..


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:05 pm
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not sure what this is, but it was on the 2016 'dale weight weenies thread

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Posted : 11/06/2015 8:06 pm
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gnarmac <- :like:


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:10 pm
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Love Cannondale but that is one damn ugly bike!


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:11 pm
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Gnarmac is a thing. Definitely a thing. 😀


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:12 pm
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Do you know what I'm tempted. I want a bike for winter that I can basically just belt around the forest fire roads on. I was set on a cx but reckon I'll take too much of a battering after a few hours.


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:29 pm
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I like that. Would make a fun bike for general dicking around on the rougher trails I ride my CX bike on.


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:37 pm
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I always had a hankering for one of its predecessors as a do it all, fast commuter.
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Posted : 11/06/2015 8:39 pm
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Oh and Gnarmac - you heard it here first.


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:40 pm
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Love Cannondale but that is one damn ugly bike!

My thoughts verbatim!


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:46 pm
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Matt, not mine, sadly! If only it was!

The credit for gnarmac goes to HoratioHufnagel, and he should be rightly lauded for creating the term.


 
Posted : 11/06/2015 8:48 pm
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Cannondale are only about 8 years behind the shed fiddlers, Tony @ Thumbrint Tuning has had a travel reduced Lefty on his CX bike for years and been going on about how good it is to anyone that would listen 🙂


 
Posted : 12/06/2015 3:42 pm
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Gnarmac is my new favourite word. Today.
I want credit for using gnarwhale to describe my cannondale trigger. And the bike in the op looks OK to me.


 
Posted : 12/06/2015 3:43 pm
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its 650b

Don't like it any more.


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 7:36 pm
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1) loved the idea… 'till I saw the bike … an update of the old headshok model would have looked better
2) this whole 650bX42mm thing that's popping up trying to be a USP… the frames take 700c wheels fine as well, I'll wager

Just remembered, there was a guy running 650b slicks on a Cotic 700c bike many years ago. Worked great.


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 8:05 pm
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It's a 1.2" travel fork.

😀


 
Posted : 21/06/2015 6:54 pm
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I still like it 😀


 
Posted : 21/06/2015 7:09 pm
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Cannondale will probably try to trademark gnarmac.


 
Posted : 22/06/2015 1:59 pm
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It does look like a parts bin special, not that I've got anything against cross / road bike suspension. Drops, tyre size & maybe geometry seem to be the only differentiators from full mtb now, and even then I've been riding my cross bike with flat bars.


 
Posted : 22/06/2015 2:31 pm
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Who tried to persuade us “Freeroad” was a thing?


 
Posted : 22/06/2015 8:25 pm

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