Author: Mauro Cottone
Right now we are in Andalusia in Spain, where Cannondale is presenting the new Overmountain 2015 range, whose models will already be available on the market for May / June. Two important innovations have been unveiled, both with 27,5 ″ wheels. Even the American company, one of the few that does not yet have models with an intermediate wheel in its catalog, has thus achieved an important turning point.
The 2015 Trigger Carbon will also be available in the 29 ″ version which in practice has been confirmed, although already available on the market. The real news is therefore the 27,5 trigger" and the27,5 "Jekyll.
All three, in any case, are characterized by the Dyad shock absorber made exclusively by Fox with "dual-shock" technology. This shock absorber allows you to transform the bike in an instant, through the two Elevate and Flow positions that provide different excursions: tuning, sag and consequently geometry, respectively suitable for ascent and descent.
All three are available in the exclusive and lightweight version with a Ballistec carbon fiber frame, the construction technology adopted by Cannondale to build highly rigid and resistant carbon fiber structures. The Trigger 27,5 is an all mountain with variable rear excursion from 150 to 85, while the Trigger 29 "has a travel of 130/80 mm. Common to both bikes is the 140mm Supermax fork, the thickest (46mm) and most aggressive Lefty ever.
So aggressive that Cannondale for the first time has also created the 160 mm version which, instead, is used on the new enduro Jekyll.
This is the evolution of the bike with 26 "wheels with which Jerome Clementz won the last edition of the Enduro World Series. The new 27,5 ″, also conceived and developed by Clementz himself substantially for Enduro competitions, has a variable rear excursion of 160/95 mm.
In these days we went out, accompanied by Jerome, both with the Trigger 27,5 and with the Jekyll. Coming soon in the magazine 365 all the insights and the results of the tests.
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