Swiss Switchout
Photography By: Michele Mondini & Rob Nicholas
CFR Scalpel takes on Worlds—Swiss style
Crans-Montana. World Championships hit the Swiss Alps. Cannondale Factory Racing rolls out frames wired to the culture of the host nation— heritage shaped through Cannondale’s lens, where order bends and conformity collapses.
The canvas starts fresh. Swiss Design lays the groundwork. Grids form the structure. Helvetica speaks the story. Each bike holds those principles tight—clean, restrained, unmistakable. Then Cannondale cues the distortion: halftones scatter across carbon. Patterns fade and flare, pulling depth from planes once flat. Each frame artfully alive, painted to pop at pace.
Rider pride shouts loud. One squad. Many flags. National jerseys set the palette. Each Scalpel uniquely communicates in their colors. Identity made visual. Performance made personal.
Asymmetry cranks the volume even higher. Drive side one rhythm, non-drive another. Balanced imbalance. A frame that feels alive from every angle. Across it all, the raw stamp: “Hello, my name is.” Lo-fi attitude, straight from pit culture, sprayed across carbon built for the World’s biggest stage.
This is CFR with a Swiss twist. Order amplified. Static embraced. Frames that bear the mark of Swiss Design—reimagined at speed. A movement that reshaped design history. Scalpel serves as the instrument that reshapes history, Swiss clarity cut Cannondale style.