Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

my caad10 needs some tlc :(

New sram force 22 groupset to go on come spring.

next year I will have a winter bike.

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You need better mudguard.

indeed, ive moved the mudguard down since taking that photo but it is still not the ideal winter set up.

Those the crappy sks raceblades? They just channel shit into your brakes.

This.

PDW Full Metal Fenders (Charlie the Bikemonger) will fit nicely in that clearance if that's the 25mm tyres.

I am tempted, they look like they would be more likely to fit on the front where the sks do not.

Fellow caad10 owners, anyone have any experience with front fork clearance issues with 25mm tyres? At 90psi on GP4000sII 25mm and 23mm rims, I get rubbing at the top, side clearance is fine.
I have a 2012 caad10, some Google searching suggests that clearance was less in the earlier frames and that gp4000s run large compared to their advertised size?

my caad10 from 2011 has open paves 25mm and fits perfectly fine.

Try in the tyre thread to see if those come up bigger? (https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/150619/)

Never been a problem for me, 25mm GP4000 IIs here, on regular width rims.

I run them at 110psi.

(not the greatest picture)

110psi! What are you? 120kg??

Are you calling him fat?

I'm calling him fat, and you Howard.

79.7kg of me is calling you fat.

We've been through this before:
Acc. this video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIHm40Amx0

and other sources, the range is 7-8.5bar depending on the condition. That's 101- 123 psi.
I'm lazy so 110 goes in most days, unless it is pissing it down when 100 will suffice.
They weigh less than me, so I figure I'll be fine.

You base your pressure on what the pro ride?

shut up ed!

I ran 25mm conti 4 seasons at 40psi on my CAAD7 once - super comfortable :)

An interesting article here on Sagan's Synapse. If I wanted a carbon bike then this would be the one

Apologies for the funny formatting above but the link seems to work

Looks shit though

It's weird that two articles about that bike have cropped up on Lufguss this week. Weird in that it's a few months after he started training with his new team.

Sagan's looks alright I reckon. The long top tube kinda balances it out a bit. Shame the paint is dull. Also surprising they use that SLK seatpost, which if it's anything like the two I own, will - through the vast quantity of its mass - attract smaller, more svelte posts to rotate around it.*

The OTP version...I want to like it and I'd certainly ride one if someone gave it to me :)

* yeh I know it's a special seatpost for that frame...it's just heavy and ugly.

That long top tube is a joy to ride. Looks wise the Liquigas synapse was hard to beat but I'd be quite happy with one of these.

Right, anyone want a 56cm Caad10?

Yes! Whole bike or a frame set?

Yes! How much?

Cannondale-Garmin Synapse for the Spring Classics.

Hmmmm.

It's an awful photo, but that green...wish they'd ditched it.