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Uploaded by on Dec 9, 2008

After a spirited run down Madonna Mtn in San Luis Obispo, the Lefty fork on my Cannondale Jekyll finally called it quits

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  • Did you fix or replace the Lefty?

  • @ridersblock Sent it to Mendon Cyclesmith for repair, based on recommendations from the Cannondale forum on mtbr.

  • Scalpel is a Cross Country Race bike if you want a Trail Bike go for the new RZ120 or RZ140 Travel I rode a 2009 Rize 130 Carbon and it's fantastic get one fitted with a lefty and you wo'nt regret it

  • I tend to refer to mountain bikes as trail bikes - the Scalpel is gonna be my XC race bike for next season.

    If the RZ140 was available last year, I would have considered it. I picked up a Mojo instead - to say I'm happy with it would be an understatement :)

  • Lefty is a great fork had one on a prophet sl for 2yrs and it's been trashed in all ways never failed me>I sold it to get a Manitou Nixon 145mm travel but I regret it Lefty is better it needs maintenance like everything else

  • My next trail bike is gonna be a Lefty-equipped Cannondale Scalpel. I just really dig how well that fork works!

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  • So a traditional fork has never failed? You know SFA about the Lefty design going by your comments Memphis

  • the negative comments are obviously amateur riders and have not been the sport long enough to know how stiff, light and strong the lefty is..

    Did I mention how well it performs on tight single tracks?

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  • @FuckTheLawNiggas No. Only suntour sucks ass.

  • Pre-historic Lefy!

  • @MarkoTimokRiver rock shox suck ass

  • @paaaaatis like your life

  • Did you maintain it regularly?You can break anything if its neglected.

  • lefty is shit ....

  • same thing happened to my bro's lefty !!! the fork werks great but fails BAD and it will fail !!!!!!

  • Sounds like the bearing races wore to the point where the needle bearing plated fell out. I'll bet if you replaced all the bearings and races, you would be back in biz. I would take it to a c'dale dealer who knows what they are doing.

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