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Hi Will, if you were saying Cannondales 1.5 steerer was a different size that
was true as the Headshok and Lefty were on market long before the 1.5″
standard that Manitou pushed out in around '03\.
Cannondale was a fairly early adopter of the 1.5 standard (with Manitou forks
on Gemini and Prophet) but their forks didn't transition right away and their
headtubes remained a slightly different size for a few years (old size). So it
was a different stem and headset to run a Lefty vs say a Manitou Slider.
Definitely a different situation as their oversized steerers and headtubes (to
house headshok guts) pre-date 1.5″ by almost a decade.
It would be like criticizing Cove or Trek for using 22mm Hayes disk mounts
instead of the current flat mount standard on their old frames.
Oct. 4, 2016, 7:19 a.m. - DrewM
#!markdown Hi Will, if you were saying Cannondales 1.5 steerer was a different size that was true as the Headshok and Lefty were on market long before the 1.5″ standard that Manitou pushed out in around '03\. Cannondale was a fairly early adopter of the 1.5 standard (with Manitou forks on Gemini and Prophet) but their forks didn't transition right away and their headtubes remained a slightly different size for a few years (old size). So it was a different stem and headset to run a Lefty vs say a Manitou Slider. Definitely a different situation as their oversized steerers and headtubes (to house headshok guts) pre-date 1.5″ by almost a decade. It would be like criticizing Cove or Trek for using 22mm Hayes disk mounts instead of the current flat mount standard on their old frames.