The new Lefty is here, and it's unlike anything that's come before it. The Lefty Ocho, which is available for both 27.5'' and 29'' wheels, is a single-crown, single-sided cross-country fork with 100mm of travel that can be had in either carbon fiber or aluminum flavors. Internally, it employs an all-new damper that mirrors the proven closed cartridge layout found in the best forks on the market, and the air-sprung Ocho comes with a handlebar-mounted lockout and separate external low-speed compression and rebound adjustments.

Weight? Yeah, it's light; the carbon model comes in at just 1,515-grams on my scale with an uncut steerer tube and the remote lockout attached, a number that Cannondale says is 250-grams less than the Lefty Carbon that came before it. That also puts it within a handful of grams of Fox's Step-Cast 32 and lighter than a SID World Cup. The aluminum Ocho is said to weigh 1,735-grams / 3.82lb.

Mike Levy spent a few days at Cannondale's Bethel, Connecticut, headquarters earlier this year to learn all about the Lefty Ocho and also to throw some tough questions at Jeremiah Boobar, the Director of Suspension Technology Components and the project leader for the new fork.

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