Slide the lockout lever straight up and off the fork. Remove the fork’s lockout lever by loosening the two-millimeter Allen pinch bolt.
Release the air pressure via the Schrader valve at the bottom of the leg. Put the bike in a workstand with the front wheel off the ground. Cannondale Lubiplate (or similar quality grease).Cannondale’s Product Manager, Drew Hannah, dropped by the garage to take us through the simple steps to service and check the stack height on any Lefty fork. The truth is the Lefty fork is ultra easy to service. Can you imagine opening your Lefty and having 88 needle bearings fall onto the garage floor? After all, the Lefty’s amazing performance and rigidity is due partly to the 88 needle bearings (sets of 22 sandwiched between 4 races) that assure the internals slide stiction-free inside the stanchion tube.
We’ve run this Lefty For All – the first ever Lefty designed specifically for use on bikes that aren’t Cannondales – damn hard this year.Most Cannondale Lefty (and Headshock Fatty) fork owners are terrified to service the thing and we can’t blame them. True, in its past Lefty was a bit of a troublemaker, but not with the modern era forks. The anti-Lefty fork brigade will have the knives out for this mono leg suspension fork, but sadly they’re all misguided sorts content to regurgitate horror stories from a decade ago. The rebound dial seems more responsive than on the ’09 Speed Carbon, and the lockout makes smooth surfaces a blast. However it’s the ride that’s the defining test of any suspension fork, and whether zipping over small ripples or dropping down steps the new DLR 110 is awesome. Fitting all the spacers and headset parts in order as you slide the head tube into position, however, is like a Krypton Factor test and requires two people. OPi strips excess material from the unit to bring the total weight down to 1,365g (a 100mm RockShox SID Race weighs 1,475g, although it does cost considerably less at £535).įitting the fork is fine but requires a vice or slide hammer to seat the crown race. The latest Lefty DLR has Cannondale’s OPi (one piece integrated) CNC-machined upper leg including integrated twin crowns, which is a new feature for 2010. Technologically it’s up with the best from RockShox and Fox and with performance to match or exceed other top-end forks.
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