Cannondale ‘Simon’ at Interbike 2009: Video Diary 3

In the absence of any really groundbreaking product launches from the bike industry (most of it was done at Eurobike it seems) Cannondale have today told us they have invented the next phase in the evolution of suspension. It’s an electronic suspension control system.

Mark was just passing the media Centre TV studio in the heart of the Interbike exhibition hall when they started the ‘Big Announcement’. Flanked by two pretty ladies who just seemed to smile a lot and contribute er.. nothing really, we were run through a demonstration of Simon.

We caught the launch on video, so rather than try and explain it we’ll let the Cannondale engineers do that for us. Apologies for a) the dodgy video audio and b) for Mark’s ‘wandering’ lens when he started to lose interest in the gentlemen speakers.

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Chipps has wandered over to the Cannondale stand and will have closer pictures and more details in a full report very soon.

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Mark Alker

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Mark has been riding mountain bikes for over 30 years and co-owns Singletrack, where he's been publisher for 25 years. While his official title might be Managing Director, his actual job description is "whatever needs doing" – from wrangling finances and keeping the lights on to occasionally remembering to ride bikes for fun rather than just work. He's seen the sport evolve from rigid forks to whatever madness the industry dreams up next, and he's still not entirely sure what "gravel" is. When he's not buried in spreadsheets or chasing late invoices, he's probably thinking about his next ride.

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6 thoughts on “Cannondale ‘Simon’ at Interbike 2009: Video Diary 3

  1. Interesting technology. Wonder how long it is before we see a bike with electronically controlled damping front and rear as well as an MTB version of the Shimano Di2 electronic shifters?

    Its bad enough losing your phone charger – imagine if you loose your bike charger!

  2. adjusting bottom out resistance on the fly?
    most people don’t know what that “blue knob” on top of the leg with the “red knob” at the bottom does

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