Bike Check: Ella Conolly's Cannondale Jekyll - EWS Pietra Ligure 2020

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RadBartTaylor (Sep 19, 2020 at 18:20)

"I don't think I run anything specific or fancy on my bike. It's a bike and I ride"....said no Pinkbike poster ever...

mtb-scotland (Sep 20, 2020 at 1:48)

TBF thats exactly how I would describe my bike.

abgs87 (Sep 20, 2020 at 5:06)

@mtb-scotland: I couldn’t actually tell you what all the components I have on my bike are! So this is also definitely me!

RadBartTaylor (Sep 20, 2020 at 7:16)

@mtb-scotland: your scottish, checks out

T4THH (Sep 23, 2020 at 4:59)

are zip ties fancy?

mtb-scotland (Sep 23, 2020 at 10:22)

@T4THH: depends if they are black or coloured

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kwdog (Sep 19, 2020 at 16:54)

She smashes harder than you.

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pistol2ne (Sep 19, 2020 at 17:38)

That water bottle position is tripping me out.

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dariodigiulio FL Editor (Sep 20, 2020 at 0:02)

you could hold a pint of beer in there with minimal losses, given the right terrain

pistol2ne (Sep 20, 2020 at 0:06)

@ddspaz: I even saw one of those guys with beer dispensing helmets!

vinay FL (Sep 20, 2020 at 2:08)

@pistol2ne: Steve Peat has raced with beercans on his helmet, hasn't he? Can't find pictures on the internet, but I do recall seeing them in Dirt Magazine.

Osirian (Sep 20, 2020 at 8:32)

@vinay: I think it’s this one, right? Number 2 on the list. (Sorry for mobile link)

m.vitalmtb.com/features/15-Lessons-Weve-Learned-from-Steve-Peat,428

leopaul FL (Sep 20, 2020 at 14:13)

@ddspaz: they get crazy dirty tho and I actually already lost a bottle on a rather rowdy fast trail

blankty (Sep 19, 2020 at 16:48)

I'm rather confused as to how she runs 85 psi in the Lyrik. At 185lbs, I run from 87-92psi in my Lyrik with no tokens. That just seems a little crazy, but hey it works for her!

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dc40 (Sep 19, 2020 at 17:25)

attacks harder and probably back's off her compressions settings. Her setting for more speed and not comfort compared to the normal weekend warrior.

TEAM-ROBOT FL (Sep 19, 2020 at 19:18)

@dc40: It also really depends on which year and which air spring system is in your fork, along with which damper. Rockshox has changed a lot inside the Lyrik in the last 4 years, so you can have a Lyrik with a small negative chamber that runs relatively low PSI to stay up in travel and has a stiff damper setup, to a fork with a huge neg chamber needing lots of positive spring pressure and that fork might be paired with a softer damper compression setting. So you can have the same rider changing 10 psi from model year to model year to have a similar feel.

ashmtb85 (Sep 19, 2020 at 19:41)

@TEAM-ROBOT: are the newer lyriks more plush/less damped? Do the newer ones have a larger negative chamber (I am assuming)?

TEAM-ROBOT FL (Sep 19, 2020 at 19:51)

@ashmtb85: It's not quite that simple. Year to year the negative chamber keeps getting bigger, but the damper changes back and forth. One year it's soft, the next year it's hard, then it's soft again. A couple years ago the Charger was ridiculously firm and most people ran it with the compression knob almost all the way open. Companies are always trying to make their forks more "plush," but there are a number of different ways to accomplish that goal.

valleytroll (Sep 19, 2020 at 23:40)

@TEAM-ROBOT: I had exactly that on a 2018 Charger Pike - would that have been the issue ? I have to open up the LSC and run a really high psi to keep the fork supportive and active.
Increasing LSC and reducing pressure made it feel dead.

TEAM-ROBOT FL (Sep 20, 2020 at 0:37)

@Molesdigmyjumps: Probably. What matters in the end in the damping force, not the number of clicks it takes to get there. On some forks you need to use tons of LSC to get the same damping force and feel as a fork that can be run wide open. @vorsprungsuspension did a youtube video recently on the new Fox 38, and apparently the new Grip2 damper produces waaaaay less total damping force than the old Grip2 or the RC2. So Fox does the same thing. Your job as the rider is to find the setting that works for you, which it sounds like you did on your 2018 Pike.

lukeb (Sep 20, 2020 at 1:46)

The most confusing thing is why, on a frame that has such a beautiful paint job, Rockshox still insist on giving her a fork that clashes so terribly. "Hey, buy Rockshox forks, they will ruin the look of your bike".

jjhobbs (Sep 20, 2020 at 9:08)

@ashmtb85: no ,opposite..less plush, firmly damped, infact, it's a new force of nature, the way it stays up!!

philthyphill (Sep 20, 2020 at 9:46)

I don’t recall seeing your name in an ews start list so maybe that’s why her fork is set up the way it is and yours is set up differently?

jjhobbs (Sep 20, 2020 at 10:25)

@isuckatridingbutmybikeiscool: couldn't make it...

nvranka (Sep 20, 2020 at 10:26)

I’m 160lbs, run 84psi 3 tokens, 2clicks HSC, almost open LSC

and team robot is spot on....I just swapped to new 2.1 charger damper + debonair spring and I went up like 10psi.

Ironmonsoon602 (Sep 22, 2020 at 14:15)

@isuckatridingbutmybikeiscool: name checks out

philthyphill (Sep 22, 2020 at 16:32)

@Ironmonsoon602: it always does.

MrZ32 (Sep 20, 2020 at 19:15)

I have a jekyll and while it was great when I purchased it in 2011 and its been in bike park service since...

The frame (current) design looks so incredibly dated.. dont get me wrong they have relatively modern geo and they are still great bikes but it just feels like they havent really progressed.

teenwolf (Sep 20, 2020 at 6:45)

I simply cannot get past the hideous aesthetic of this bike. Might be the best bike ever, idk, but when spending lots of $$$ ya gotta get a bike that stokes your fire a bit. This does not.

twozerosix (Sep 20, 2020 at 7:38)

There's definitely some 'concept' at work. The partly faded, partly hard-edged peach color is...unique. Overall its memorable and doesn't look like anything else, and that's good advertising. Cannondale makes clean-looking frames.

teenwolf (Sep 20, 2020 at 11:14)

@twozerosix: don’t mind the paint! Just everything else! Purely subjective tho! For some reason I want to like Cannondale, but never do...

Zaeius (Sep 19, 2020 at 16:57)

Kinda weird she isn't running the ultrasoft compound on the front

boogneesh (Sep 19, 2020 at 22:40)

She could probably out run most of us on that red bike.

SendItEveryday (Sep 20, 2020 at 7:32)

Let´s goo Ella!!!! (i put you in my fantasy team)

shredjekyll (Sep 20, 2020 at 8:49)

rekt

ranchitup FL (Sep 20, 2020 at 11:43)

Hope she sees this bro

rtclark FL (Sep 20, 2020 at 0:11)

Looks like Mr. Hydeous.

CM999 (Sep 20, 2020 at 1:03)

Her mechanic needs to sort out those brake hoses

okavango (Sep 20, 2020 at 6:34)

Bar spin ready

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