Two totally new bikes are released by Cannondale in Gran Canaria
Previewed: Cannondale Rize and Moto
Change to: The extra inch of travel the Rize gets over the Rush (4-inch marathon bike) comes via a modified single pivot design with a swing link. Throw in the one-piece forged backbone, beefy crossmember connecting the asymmetrical chainstays and a forged chainstay yoke and you've got yourself Cannondale's stiffest rear end, ever.
Dan Conners, the engineer who led the Rize project, explains that moving any one point in the linkage as little as 5 millimeters could make the difference between a rising rate and a falling rate. In the case of the Rize, which uses an, ahem, “Rizing rate” linkage, the idea is that the bike will be supple off the top, stable in the middle for pedaling and have an end-stroke that plays nice with air shocks’ inherently progressive nature.
The Prophet, by comparison, had a falling rate. It's a subtle difference that Cannondale engineers use to point that this new bike is directed more toward all-day/every-day all-kinds-of-trails trail riding, where priority is put on efficiency with a little extra cushin' for the pushin'. The Prophet, on the other hand, was designed as more of a do all bike, including Rize and Moto duties, so the suspension was engineered a little differently.
True to Cannondale’s style, the rest of the Rize is rife with “System Integration,” including an integrated headset and Lefty one-piece stem-steerer with an optional all-new air-sprung Lefty fork called the PBR (Push Button Rebound/Lockout); Lefty front hub (now available from Mavic and Shimano); a BB30 bottom bracket with integrated bearings and a hollow 30-millimeter spindle that spins Hollogram SI cranks (lightest, stiffest mountain cranks on the market).
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Indeed, this bike takes the plug-and-play parts compatibility that most other mountain bike companies abide by and turns it on its head. And when you consider the system as a whole, it sounds complicated. But the philosophy behind it is simple: make it stronger, make it lighter, and don’t compromise.
The bottom line is pretty simple, too. The Rize has a potential system weight (understood here as frame, fork/stem/steerer/headset/front hub, crank/BB, rear shock) of just 4,665 grams (10.3 pounds), which Cannondale claims to be the lightest in its class.
With the actual weights of the bikes’ various pieces being sliced and diced umpteen ways, and, being on foreign soil, with all those figures being slung around in Kilos and “stone” and whatnot, I got on the bike not knowing exactly how much it weighed.
My first impression was that this bike is fast. All that SI mumbo jumbo makes for a super stiff rear end. Power transfer isn’t an easy thing to discern while riding unfamiliar trails and jet-lagged after an eight-time-zone pole vault that took 24 hours door-to-door. And you’re definitely not supposed to be able to feel it riding borrowed pedals because your luggage got lost. But through all that fog, I felt it. It all adds up, and this bike rips. It spins up to speed quickly, accelerates going uphill, and as a 130-millimeter bike with decent angles (68.5 headtube/72.5 seat tube angle), it points downhill fairly well, too.
I rode a carbon Lefty with a Fox RLC damper that, if it were my bike, I would have upgraded to a stiffer spring. But the new PBR fork, which borrows SRAM’s SoloAir technology, uses a negative air spring instead of a coil, making for the lightest 130-millimeter-travel fork on the market, weighting in at 2.9 pounds for the carbon version.
That fork, on the high-zoot carbon Rize makes for a complete bike weight of 24 pounds. Carbon Rize models will be available in April and alloy models are in production now.
A new carbon Lefty with a Fox RLC damper perched atop the new Rize
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...
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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
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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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