Cannondale’s updated carbon F-Si cross-country hardtail featuring the all-new single-crown Lefty Ocho fork is an early model year 2019 bike, but hitting your local bike shop in the coming weeks. Seven builds from around $2-9k are each capable of lining up on race day, straight out of the box. Or put them to work shredding your local singletrack, as a fast and surprisingly capable modern hardtail mountain bike.
MY19 Cannondale F-Si carbon XC hardtail mountain bike
Cannondale wanted to reinvigorate their pro-level XC race hardtail to take on ever more technical elite race courses. But at the same time they realized that making the race bike more capable for the pros, the same benefits could trickle down for the privateers. So each of the new carbon F-Si hardtails is race ready, but also include core spec that will make them at home on your local trails.
Each of the new bikes comes spec’ed with Eagle 12-speed drivetrains for wide gearing range and simplicity, and all the 100mm travel Lefties come with cable actuated lockouts to optimize climbing. The bikes also each get the all new Schwalbe Racing Ray & Ralph tires (that we’ll detail today as well) with varying rubber & casing that fit with the overall bike specs.