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By: Twenty Nine Inches | A 29er Bike site » Blog Archive » Caffeine 29er on Cannondale Site

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:43:53 +0000

[...] We posted a prototype picture way back in May of the Caffeine 29er coming out of Cannondale and you can now see it on their website. [...]

By: d

Wed, 24 May 2006 07:10:05 +0000

cracknfail

By: Cloxxki

Cloxxki — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:45:11 +0000

Gee Jeffrey, I think you’re a really swell guy yourself!

Really, I just got a tip that the pic was out in the open on an MTBR forum.

There’s still a rumor floating around of a lady racer having been spotted testing a Cannondale FS 29″er. Perhaps the team guy make shed some light into that? Also, there may be other hardtails that just this one. Prototypes for a brand new to 29″ers typically don’t come alone. Even my proto Cube frame has an identical sybling in a German basement somewhere…

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:31:38 +0000

the guy on a cannondale team sed he would have the first pictures next week and you guys have it now I LOVE YOU

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 12 May 2006 05:24:31 +0000

Love C-dale’s! I know what my next bike will be if it makes it into production. Unless they have a Rush 29er up their sleeve.

By: Guitar Ted

Guitar Ted — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:58:00 +0000

bergie: Yes, It’s the one he will be riding in GDR.

Tim: Check out what Mike Curiak has to say about the Lefty on a 29″er Leviathan on the mtbr.com 29″er forum. The thread was a sticky on top of the forum last I looked. In short, yes, they are awesome! Jeff K and Carlos at the shop I work at are both on C’Dale Rush’s with the Lefty Carbons and they rave about them.

By: monk3y mike

monk3y mike — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:35:22 +0000

Lefty forks are amazingly rigid (kind of like the Headshoks) contrary to the appearance. The only downside is all the proprietary parst. I know a couple who both ride Lefty’s (on a SS and a gearie racer) and they have let me putt-putt about on them. I was skeptical at first but quickly became a believer. I just loathe alumnium frames though…

By: bergie

bergie — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:55:50 +0000

Is that bike being ridden by Mathew Lee?

By: Tim Grahl

Tim Grahl — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:45:29 +0000

Yeah I’m with ya on the paint job but it’s always cool to see another major player jumping into the 29er fray.

And I’ve never ridden a lefty fork… are they any good?

By: monk3y mike

monk3y mike — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:42:15 +0000

Damn that’s an ugly paint job! I always thought the Lefty would make a wicked 29er fork. Wonder if they took a standard Lefty and built the frame around it or redesigned the 26″ version?