I’ll confess, I’m a Cannondale fan so when this popped up on my emails it peeked my interest as I was looking to change my 04 Jekyll next year.
Aside from the colour (colourway) it’s looks a good buy. The 2016 version with a lefty got a good write up.

https://www.rutlandcycling.com/bikes/mountain-bikes/cannondale-habit-carbon-se-2017-full-suspension-mountain-bike-purple_372260?origin=pla&kwd=&currency=GBP&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8bLCkNPL1wIVZrftCh3mIAyFEAQYASABEgJr-PD_BwE#infospec

I sort of had my heart set on a S150 but this is best part of a grand cheaper.

It’s less than £2k as there is currently £100 off voucher and 3% cash back.

Ive done the obligatory check on Paul’s Cycles and nothing in Carbon or with pikes.

Whack it on the credit card and live for today!

Looks really good for the money!

Spot n for the money, bear in mind it has a pressfit bb so swapout for a screwtype pressfit.

Fandabbydozzy

At £3.5k that would be a bit pricy but at £2k? Bargain!

Even if you added GX eagle to match the S150S you’d still be quids in AND have a carbon frame.

I think that colour is cool as f*** 😀

I love loud shit though 😆

You’d be mad not to.

You should regret the things you’ve done, not the things you haven’t.

Imagine how you’d feel if you checked and your size was no longer available….

Get it bought.

That is a very nice bike.

colour is fantastic

Thought we’d discussed this…..
If you get a bike that colour you’ll have to find a new riding buddy (carbon or not)!

😕

I quite like it in purple and the spec for the money, especially bearing in mind the carbon frame, is great.

I wouldn’t worry about swapping the gears out for Eagle (as suggested above) unless you do a lot of flat / easy fireroads etc and need more top end. I’ve found 11 speed GX has more than enough range for me.

BFITH – Member
Thought we’d discussed this…..
If you get a bike that colour you’ll have to find a new riding buddy (carbon or not)!

What, even in the winter, during dark nights?

The general STW consensus is the colorway is ace and I won’t do that super-tarty thing of getting matching pedals and grips, albeit slightly the wrong shade, and then wearing matching clothing. I’ll not be buying a purple helmet etc.

🙄

Canondale are normally well off my radar but if I was in the market for a FS bike right now I’d be very interested in that!

Aargh, Colourway! Swapout!! This thread is making me scream in side..

I’ll not be buying a purple helmet etc

Purple helmet though 😆

Nothing wrong with purple, case in point..

https://www.moredirt.com/photo/92647

I’ve demo’d a Habit* and flippin loved it. Not much more to say really, excellent ride.

*Bad Habit (the Plus version)
**with Lefty

If you are after longer travel you can get a Vitus Sommet carbon on CRC for around the same amount with similar spec (pikes/x1 etc)

PURPLE! Oh yes…

That looks a proper bargain, colour is pretty good too!

I can’t see anything better than this in the classifieds:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-cannondale-habit-reduced

Pretty much unridden due to circumstances. If my Jekyll hadn’t been found I would have bought this at the previous price let along the new one.

Like it OP, wonder what the real world weight of it is.

Is the voucher code save100.? Doesn’t work for me

Yes, it was.
It’s expired I think, I need to alter the thread name now.

That’s what you get for being slow off the mark and asking us an opinion on your future purchase 😛

Go for it then post pics here

The general STW consensus

😀

That and we are all black sheep 😛

Better colour and more tyrey.

http://www.ubyk.co.uk/cannondale-bad-habit-2-carbon-2017/64574

I’ve got the 2016 Habit SE in an even more lurid aqua colour and i really rate it. Frame is exactly the same as the 2017 that you’re looking at, but i have the Lefty fork. Real world weight is circa 28lbs.

The one thing i changed straight away was the 30t front ring – i was spinning like a top – trouble is, it’s an expensive change – the 34T ring i got was around £70, and i had to buy an expensive tool to get the ring off.

That aside, its a great bike – perfect for local XC and enough for trail centres and BPW. Reviews well if you search and at £2k a bargin IMO.

Better colour and more tyrey.

Prefer the purple…… 😀

Prefer the purple…..

Yeah, but the green is the BAD Habit… that’s the one I’d get. (As a N+1 😀 )

Like the purple, do eeeeet!

That looks pretty damn good for the price, best other deals I could find at the link below, similar bikes 35-40% discount around the same price mark.

Prefer the purple though!

https://gearpursuit.com/shop/mountain-bikes/?category=full-suspension-mountain-bikes&price_from=1500&price_to=100000&view=discount_descending&asrc=fsmtb

That site looks bit dodgy and annoying as no spec listed for the Ghost that I clicked onto plus think op wants a decent bike for 2k or less.

Yeah they also seem to be having some image issues, just fixed the link for 2k or less, sorry about that!

I just found the site useful for comparing suppliers without having to mess around with multiple catalogues and it seems pretty nippy – each to their own 😀

https://gearpursuit.com/shop/mountain-bikes/?category=full-suspension-mountain-bikes&price_from=1500&price_to=2000&view=discount_descending&asrc=fsmtb

Edit: Just checked the ghost (the one i assume you’re talking about) and noticed specs? odd!

If it doesn’t have to be carbon this is £100 cheaper and probably 1kg lighter:
https://www.merlincycles.com/ktm-lycan-272-special-edition-custom-build-mountain-bike-2017-105317.html
…not pikes either.

Certainly seems a lot of bike for the money. Not many holes in the spec including class dropper.

How could you possibly tell which ghost I was looking at!? Bizarre…

Plus no specs listed

Looks nice. I loved my Trigger whilst I had it, Cannondale make nice bikes. YT have a sale on right now, if you can get another £600 together you could get a Jeffsy 2 CF somewhere in between the Cannondale and the S150 pricing.

Looks awesome in that colour. My LBS owner has last years one and loves it. Considering he could pretty much have any bike he wanted it can’t be too bad

tdog – I just scrolled down through on the list haha – hence the assumption 🙂