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<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\tManuel Fumic’s Cannondale Scalpel-Si.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tManuel Fumic and Maxime Marotte are the national champions of Germany and France respectively. To celebrate this success, Cannondale has custom painted their Scalpel-Si frames with each rider’s national colours over a black base.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \t\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tMaxime Marotte’s Cannondale Scalpel-Si.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe Cannondale team is sponsored by Shimano so, as you would expect, the drivetrain is a full Shimano affair. The shifters, cassettes, derailleurs, and cranks all coming from the XTR stable with the chain being borrowed from the Dura-Ace road catalogue. The brake set and rotors (180 mm front; 160 mm rear) are also Shimano’s range-topping XTR.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \t\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t \n\t \n\tThe Shimano XTR cranks have undergone the Stages treatment with a power meter embedded in the left crank arm. This data is supplied to a Stages Dash<\/a> computer mounted on the handlebar.\n<\/p>\n \t\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn the cockpit, personal preference sees some variation. Most notably the seat posts with Marotte electing a KS LEV CI with carbon body and lever providing 65 mm of vertical travel while Fumic choosing a lighter rigid carbon post from Enve. Both riders sit on a Prologo Dimension Nack saddle with a 143 mm width.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \t\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tMaxime’s KS Lev CI dropper seatpost and lever.<\/span> \t\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Maxime Marotte prefers Look pedals.<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/a>The team uses One Components chainguides.<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\tThe one anomaly is Fumic’s unbranded 38 tooth chainring where Marotte has a standard Shimano XTR chainring. The team explained that Shimano does not currently make a compatible single chainring bigger than 36 teeth, so they’ve had to make a plan for Fumic’s preferred 38T gearing.\n<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n\tFumic’s blacked out 38 tooth chainring.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Fumic’s left Stages XTR crank and XTR pedal.<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/a>And Stages Dash.<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\tFumic’s handlebar and stem configuration is slightly bigger with a 730 mm Enve bar and 90 mm stem versus Marotte’s 720 Enve bar and 80 mm stem. There is also a difference in pedal preference with Fumic clipping into a pair of Shimano XTR pedals and Marotte using Look’s X-Track pedals.\n<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\tThe front suspension is uniquely Cannondale with a Lefty 2.0 Carbon. The rear travel is controlled by an unlabelled RockShox shock. The team take their suspension set up seriously, sending the forks to the specialist Lefty tuning company Eighty-Aid in Europe for servicing after each World Cup race.\n<\/p>\n