Cannondale unleash featherweight Scalpel

By David Arthur

Cannondale unleash featherweight Scalpel

Cannondale have revealed an 8.8kg Scalpel for its sponsored riders competing in the MTB XC at the Beijing Olympics this weekend.

The Cannondale-Vredestein Mountain Bike Racing Team members, Roel Paulissen, Jakob Fuglsang and Kashi Leuchs, will each pilot a very special edition of the Cannondale Scalpel. The bike is already no heavyweight, weight issues addressed with a full carbon frame, flexible carbon chainstays and carbon-canned DT Swiss shock.

But the overall weight isn't all due entirely to the frame, it's the components that help deliver that low-weight. Items such as Cannondale's Si SL 2x9 mountain crankset with ceramic bearings, Vredestein prototype Black Panther tubular tyres and Mavic's prototype tubular wheelset. And of course a custom paint job. Should give the riders an edge.

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Mr.Wilson

Posted: 14/08/08 17:10:24 24

I want one. Maybe not in those colours (because, you know, yuck - unless you're dutch or Spanish or German I guess) but otherwise. Hubbah.

And what are 'our' boys on for the race I wonder?

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