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boofy44:
Seems a bit pointless to me.Wouldnt this setup have to weigh more than a normal one to be strong enough?
rodriguez:
--- Quote from: Dark Diggler on April 22, 2017, 07:40 AM ---Cannondale have been doing the "lefty" fork for years and not just on light duty XC bikes, still look odd though.
There's a bit of history on it here if you're curious from someone called Clive Gosling............;)
https://factoryjackson.com/2016/02/18/cannondale-lefty-the-story-of-half-a-fork/
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FJ: The Lefty is a radical design where did the idea come from, and why did Cannondale choose to pursue it?
In 1999, word has it that some of the mechanics were messing around with a MotoFR to prove how stiff it was. They chopped the lower in half and botched on a bolt through hub to the sprung leg, then rode it around the parking lot. The idea for Lefty was born and they wasted no time.
Brian Lopes won the slalom at Sea Otter that year on a Lefty, so it launched with a bang!
The rest is history!
The MTB version maybe, no mention of the Kastan (BMX) or the Lotus 108 (track) which were both a few years ahead of Cannondale :-\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_108
OrgasmDonor:
I would have had and raced and thrashed a uni blade with confidence. The only reason I did not get one was because the downtube was an inch shorter than my minimum requirement to be comfortable riding it in my head, proper freaky fooker me like :LolLolLolLol: Absolutely love the kex n uniblade
:daumenhoch:
MartyC:
BMX innovated a lot of bike parts that only went mainstream years later; Cannondale definitely took their inspiration from Kastan no doubt about it. Same way that mountainbiking was born; from the roots of BMX.
Mikku:
Nothing to sell I'm afraid, but I did spot these Kastan ads in a '95 BMX Plus mag the other day:-
Beautiful-looking frames - definitely worth a close-up:-
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