Two totally new bikes are released by Cannondale in Gran Canaria
Previewed: Cannondale Rize and Moto
Chris Lesser
Change to: The view from the top of "Zig Zag," a hand-build cobble stone trail that was part of a 10-mile shuttle with 5,000 feet of descending and just 500 feet of climbing.
After nearly two years of planning, Cannondale last weekend called a global summit in Gran Canaria to announce the release of two new bikes—the 130-millimeter travel Rize and the 160-millimeter Moto.
The two new platforms split duties of what Cannondale has identified as “all-mountain” and “big-mountain,” and the long-awaited additions round out the company’s full-suspension mountain bike lineup, which now includes six bikes stretching from the 100-millimeter Scalpel to the 220-millimeter Judge.
The bikes will replace Cannondale’s four-year-old Prophet, which with 5.5 inches of travel and weighing in around the 27-ish-pound mark with a carbon Lefty fork was as much ahead of its time in the all-mountain category as it was unconventional in appearance.
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Both new bikes will be made in Cannondale’s Bedford, Pennsylvania, factory and come backed with a no-rider-weight-limit lifetime frame warranty.
The bikes’ unveiling came via a mass flogging by some 40 international cycling media wankers. After racking up seven flat tires in just two days of riding, I can vouch for the legitimacy of Gran Canaria’s rugged mountains.
Rize Up
The Rize has a lot going on, and its backbone is as good a place to start as any. Cannondale called on decades of experience working with aluminum to produce what appears to be an industry first: a BB shell, main pivot and seat tube all made from a single forging.
This “backbone” bypasses the difficulties of keeping welded frame pivots and BB shells properly aligned, while simultaneously taking advantage of forging’s considerable strength-to-weight benefits.
In terms of forging technology, Cannondale has pulled off quite the feat. It’s easy to imagine the 3D forging process, with high-grade aluminum flowing into place like Play-Doh, but actually making it happen is about as easy as solving a Rubix cube drunk and blindfolded...with your feet. According to Cannondale’s test lab engineers, all that work pays off with four times the fatigue life over a welded structure. And it’s lighter.
The "backbone" - a BB shell, main pivot and seat tube all made from a single forging and the chainstay yoke/main pivot forging (left) from the Rize.
The Moto has an extra-reinforced bottom bracket "Hot Box" with two carbon fiber plates sandwiching the bottom bracket and pivot sleeves.
Cannondale also employs a key forging for the Rize’s main-pivot yoke, which connects asymmetrical chainstays for what Cannondale says is its stiffest rear end ever—including the Moto you’re about to read about, and its current downhill bike.
The Rize will come with two frame options across five different models ranging from $1,799 to $5,499. The two high-end models feature carbon fiber front triangles, and all of them have the backbone, forged yoke and carbon seat stays.
Both the Rize and Moto are modified single-pivot designs, and the two make a good case that all single pivots are not created equal.
Im very impressed with the idea.I was thinking about purchasing the RUSH CARBON,and then cannondale wows me with the RISE.I trully hope your write up is going to be very specific and lots of tech notes.Im a Prophet lefty owner and would like to hear more on the Rise.This is one bike id sell my kid for (ha ha). Thanks for all your hard work.I would like some pre info on the Rise, if you could.
Posted Thu Mar13, 2008, 11:16 PM — By Cam
To me it looks very much like a Yeti 575 with 15 mm less travel.
Will the Lefty PBR internals fit other Cannondale Leftys? I have a 2006 Prophet 2000 that was *supposed* to have travel management but didn't; C'Dale promised me a free upgrade when the parts arrived - but now it looks like my 140 mm Lefty Carbon Max will drop to 130 mm.
Posted Wed Mar26, 2008, 7:27 PM — By Juan Toro
I will like to know if in the near future a version of the Rize ussing the sort of top notch components as per the current Rush Team Replica will be available.
Posted Thu Mar27, 2008, 6:11 PM — By Alan
The Rize shown above is pretty blinged out, very close to the build of the Rush Carbon Team (which I own) It has the Mavic wheels, Juicy ultimate brakes and upgraded Si Carbon cranks (I think with ceramic bearings. My Rush only has Al cranks with standard bearings). About the only difference is the XTR rear derailleur, instead of X.0, the matching shifters, and the bigger tires (X.0 vs. XTR is basically a personal preference). You'd be hard pressed to do much better than that...
Posted Mon Mar31, 2008, 5:15 PM — By Maver
Where i can buy this Tyres ?? please send info in my email ...
Posted Wed Apr 9, 2008, 2:32 PM — By jar jar binks
hi everyone i want know how much a bike like this is going to cost me because i cant find the prices for the rize or the moto carbon and really want to get a bike like this...
Posted Wed Apr 9, 2008, 2:56 PM — By jar jar binks
please write me back if you guys can provide me with an answer. and if you know of any other good bikes please let me know...
Posted Wed Apr23, 2008, 10:44 AM — By jedi
The Rize will come with two frame options across five different models ranging from $1,799 to $5,499. The two high-end models feature carbon fiber front triangles, and all of them have the backbone, forged yoke and carbon seat stays.
Posted Sun Jun15, 2008, 6:09 PM — By spikes
Ive just completed my first week on New RIZE ONE here in New Zealand.
First impressions are its light, fast. She drives like a hard tail but floats like a plane.
Those cranks provide turbo power on demand down below.
The lefty does the business up front while delivering that precision steering you only get from a single leg fork. Rear end seems as stiff or loose as u like.
First major ride showed this bike has it all....up the hill, down the hill ...through the sticky tricky forest. Rooty, Bumpy.
I was wondering what i would have to give up for 130 mm of travel. The answer would appear to be nothing really ?
I will race this bike in next years Coppermine Epic www.coppermine.co.nz - But in the mean time i will thrash it to death on every track in the town.
Maybe other manufactures have bikes as good as this one but i find that hard to believe.
Posted Sun Jul27, 2008, 9:24 PM — By ski laxer
As a dealer from CT, I've rocked some saddle time in the '09 Moto and Rize. The Moto Carbon 1 runs and bangs like a Rush on steroids. It drives up rocky New England river beds with speed and agilty. The new hatchet-drive-linkage works and you get spoiled with top of suspension with needed adjustability. You almost forget your floating on six inches of travel until you start ripping downhill. The Moto absolutely rips down hill, almost too fast for its light-weight carbon frame. In weight savings, you sacrifice stability. The Juicy carbons schreeched to a hault after I shredded the tubeless rear tire off a lil' rock drop, proving my Co2's useless. Honestly the MOTO is fuck'n amazing.
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