For the 2018 model year, Cannndale has produced two special versions of the Scalpel, Manuel Fumic's racing bike. In contrast to the standard model, the identical main frame has a rear triangle with seat stays that are six millimetres longer and a shock with more travel. This increases the suspension travel from the usual 100 millimetres to a new 115 millimetres at the rear.

Cannondale takes the cake - by Scalpel standards - with the Scalpel SE 2: Because there, a Fox 34 provides 120 millimeters of travel. As this means that the bike is moving away from the race track and towards the trail, the product managers have also equipped the special version with a dropper post. Equipped in this way, the Scalpel, which is already quite downhill capable and adapted to modern cross-country trails, should be one of the faster trail bikes of the 2018 season. To ensure that the Scalpel world doesn't go completely off the rails with the Scalpel SE1 version, a Lefty is installed here as usual, but with 120 instead of the usual 100 millimetres of suspension travel.

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