Topstone Lefty Oliver

[MichaelB]

Sweet !! Will be expensive though !

[sigma]

A few different versions - ebike (Neo) with and without the lefty Ocho as well as the normal left Ocho. Should be interesting.

[KittenRidesBikes]

I got a good look at the bike during CABDA east. And it's pretty sweet.

[sigma]

I got a good look at the bike during CABDA east. And it's pretty sweet.

and it's out...
https://www.cannondale.com/en-us/bikes/ ... descending

[saba]

Ehh, dished wheels and drivetrain, proprietary cranks with proprietary chainrings for the proprietary chainline, proprietary front hubs for the front fork, plus Cannondales approach to bottom brackets means hard pass.

[MichaelB]

Many bikes are now going the proprietry route for many parts, but Cannondale seems to do it better.

Interesting they call the redesigned short travel Ocho "Oliver" - should have been called it the Ochover !

Would be interesting to ride it and comapre it with the Slate side by side.

[bikewithnoname]

This bike is where the lines blur for me in terms of XC MTB. A full-sus gravel bike I guess is designed for extreme gravel (or what I'd call a low level single track), one notch up from a fire road, the sort of thing an FSi would be more fun on (or a Scalpel if you insist on full-sus). I guess however if you're riding to/fro the trail on tarmac or paths then the Topstone would make sense?

Does feel a bit too much of a niche within a niche to me but where I ride the road is the road, and off the road largely requires 130mm+ suspension

[Tamu8104]

It's an interesting bike and I'd love to ride one. The funky rear wheel offset is the deal breaker for me on this bike, everything else I could live with. While it would be a fun ride a few times, I doubt I have the terrain where I live for it to displace or fit in between my current gravel and XC MTB.