Cannondale Scapel Si - Your thoughts

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

My son is riding Eden, G-Spot and Coetzenburg with his new Scalpel now while I an sitting at the coffee shop in the Spez store in Stellies waiting for him and his boet to finish the ride.

 

Will let you know what he thinks of it.

And!?

['Dale]

Currently got a SI2 but upgraded to eagle and a set of South hoops.

Also with Bogus at the moment for some SPECIAL treatment

That's pure evil ????

['Dale]

Out of curiosity - why change the CZERO hoops for SOUTH hoops?

Durability

Rim width - traction ????????

['Dale]

And sexiness

 

#handgemaak

[stringbean]

What everyone said.

South hoops on tune hubs

Enough said

[NotSoBigBen]

Got this this morning for the next few days on 'test' ... Jissis!

 

 

['Dale]

Got this this morning for the next few days on 'test' ... Jissis!

 

 

Dunno how you're gonna return it, 'Ben ????

[NotSoBigBen]

Dunno how you're gonna return it, 'Ben [emoji85]

May have to pry it from my cold dead hands me thinks [emoji12]

[Jaco-fiets]

Got this this morning for the next few days on 'test' ... Jissis!

 

 

Sweet setup

[Stefan Cremer]

Durability

Rim width - traction

 

Now you've got me wondering even more - how is the South more durable than the Czero, both are carbon rims (honest question, absolutely no sarcasm)?

 

Internal rim width - granted. 28mm vs 23mm for the Czero. Interesting to note that the ENVE M50 only has 21mm internal width - to be honest I would have thought their rim is more progressive in this specific aspect.

[wazriley]

As soon as I have enough money I will replace the BB30 with Wheels Manufacturing or Enduro BB. Did this on his Giant XTC HT, and it is an awesome upgrade, even though it was expensive.

 

Any idea which wheels manufacturing BB is the correct one to upgrade to on the Scalpel SI ? I see CWC has a few on the site, im dead keen for this upgrade 

[bebop]

Unfortunately in Cape Town no Cyclelab around here :-(

 

Maybe phone omnico they the cannondale distributors and they in Cape Town maybe they have a test day 

[Suidwes Boytjie]

Got this this morning for the next few days on 'test' ... Jissis!

 

 

I HATE YOU RIGHT NOW... 

[spy]

Now you've got me wondering even more - how is the South more durable than the Czero, both are carbon rims (honest question, absolutely no sarcasm)?

 

Internal rim width - granted. 28mm vs 23mm for the Czero. Interesting to note that the ENVE M50 only has 21mm internal width - to be honest I would have thought their rim is more progressive in this specific aspect.

 

ENVE50 is due for an upgrade....Fumic was already riding a new Prototype of the rim at this years EPIC 2017 .....THE CFR boys have been riding a different M50 the whole season so far on the XCO circuit. 

[Suidwes Boytjie]

Any idea which wheels manufacturing BB is the correct one to upgrade to on the Scalpel SI ? I see CWC has a few on the site, im dead keen for this upgrade 

Me too... i'm running a XT 1x11 crank (think the spindle is a 24mm) so i guess if i do this it will be:

 

http://www.cwcycles.co.za/product/wheels-mfg-bb30-shimano

[stringbean]

Now you've got me wondering even more - how is the South more durable than the Czero, both are carbon rims (honest question, absolutely no sarcasm)?

 

Internal rim width - granted. 28mm vs 23mm for the Czero. Interesting to note that the ENVE M50 only has 21mm internal width - to be honest I would have thought their rim is more progressive in this specific aspect.

I don't believe durability has anything to do with the rims but rather the way you ride.Ive seen as many cracked enve rims at my lbs as any other carbon rim .The c zero wheels are a good set of mid range wheels.The one on the SI2 are a bit heavy(1650g) using formula hubs.

The ones on the SI1 are slightly lighter using same rim and hubs but using lighter spokes.

The south,tune build I have I would class as top of the range