Posted on 01/05/2022 2:01:37 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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What a great opportunity! I can finally ask a question...
I’ve been seeing a lot of those Cannondale mono-fork frames lately.
What’s the benefit?
What a great opportunity! I can finally ask a question...
I’ve been seeing a lot of those Cannondale mono-fork frames lately.
What’s the benefit?
What is the point of a Lefty fork?The Lefty fork consolidates all the components of a conventional fork into a package that's essentially half the size. To accomplish this, Cannondale used clever engineering to help the Lefty match and even exceed the performance of conventional XC forks.
The brand is Bicystar. It has disc brakes, 21 speeds and thumb shifters. Love it so far. Going to try the local rail-trail this weekend.
I am further pleased to report an unusual event, not a single bicycle obstructed my driving route.
I do not feel I fit well in this forum since I rarely deal with high-end bikes, as instead, as a evangelical doing ministry, after I fixed a kids’s bike on the street in this low income city a few years back of high pop. density then there have been a succession of kids coming for the same, thanks be to God (though i can grumble someone as in the cold Winter yesterday). I never charge labor for any work at all (having left all to serve the Lord in 1986), nor solicit funding, but I do try to get the money back that I spend for parts (not for patches and little stuff), which I usually find the lowest prices for (like 9$ - now $11.50 for 20’’ tires, $ 10.50 for seats, 48 patches for $3)
Thus if i can be of help finding parts let me know.
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I have a Cannondale Lefty equipped bike.
Below is a link to the actual bike I bought:
https://www.ebth.com/items/2119536-cannondale-f900sx-bicycle
I’ve made a lot of improvements to the bike since I bought it. But I thought I got a fantastic deal on it.
I’m not an engineer but I’ll try to explain why I think it’s so good.
On a typical narrow tube shock fork the springs and fluids are small because they are in a very tight space. On a big tube Lefty fork, the mechanics can be much larger and more efficient, making it much smoother. It is larger like a motorcycle shock, but since the bike is much lighter than a motorcycle you only need one.
My son has a $400 small tube Manitou fork on his mountain frame. Going over bumps you can literally feel the springs dragging on the inside of the tubes. My Lefty fork feels almost like an air shock inflating and deflating as I hit bumps. It is much much smoother.
My favorite bike - one of the original dual suspension GT mountain bikes.
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What about e-bikes?
I got my wife a Himiway StepThru Cruiser e-bike for our anniversary. Im lazy so putting a motor on a bicycle is brilliant in my book.
OH ! Gotcha.
I thought this was some sort of wheel quick change thing.
Thank you for the info!
It’s cold finally here in Colorado but I got a lot of time in in December on local trails. I met a guy in Monument that knows the local trails pretty well so we rode together a lot this fall. He got a new Ibis Ripmo so he is pretty hard to keep up with going downhill, but I really learned a lot trying to keep up with him.
So back to the indoor bike this winter. I have a Bowflex C6. I am anxious to see what the Eastern European programmers have dreamed up for Rouvy this year, it looks like they changed everything but the excellent routes they have.
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