Cannondale CAAD4, with a modern, lightweight twist

Just checked, the decals are etched in...

Apologies for the lack of updates on this - the CAAAAAAAAAAD is almost ready, just waiting on some new gear cables as the ones supplied were terribly frayed and ended up being too short. Got Campag Ergo-specific ones from Transfil... not sure it was entirely necessary paying three times as much as the other types. Also, got some inline derailleur adjusters, which should be here today.

Everything has gone pretty swimmingly, apart from... Ritchey! Do they purposely make their stuff as nice but also as shit as possible? The WCS 260 stem is a lovely bit of kit, but their bolts... grrrrrr. They're made of freakin butter! All I'll say is if you've bought one, change those bolts, or just don't fit it! Tried to torque them up to 4NM a piece (1NM below the max recommended) and all 7 bolts, bar two, actually clicked on the torque wrench. The rest? Junk. Rounded off to the absolute max. Going to have fun trying to get the stem off if I ever want to adjust it...

Pics incoming this weekend, I think it looks the absolute business. And it fits about 10 x better than my 60cm Genesis with the seat post jacked up.

And it fits about 10 x better than my 60cm Genesis with the seat post jacked up.

Glad to hear it :-)

Me too! Such a strange concept to be finally sitting comfortably on a bike...

Btw the frame is so nice that I ended up applying 3M frame protector to most of it, just to try and prevent paint chipping. I'll no doubt probably end up falling off in my cleats now and breaking the bloody thing :-)

Are the screws Torx screws? I can't see in the pics. The original Allen key one's where replaced with Torx screws (Torx offer less cam-out) a short while after initial launch of the stem and if you mailed Ritchey support at the time they would replace them under warranty via the local distributor .. May still be worth a shot if they're Allen key

Yep, they're torx. If the torx screws were supposed to be an improvement, then I would hate to see how bad the regular allen screws were, because these things went to mush at the mere hint of torque.

Meant to sneak peak this a couple of weeks ago, better late than never!

Just bought one of these frames myself. Same year and size but in the celeste green variety. Looking forward to seeing the finished results.

Pics man! It's all finished now, just waiting on some Campag specific anchor bolts for the brakes and then I'm done... Very irritating that its such a small part holding me back.

Having it resprayed next week so i'll post pics then

CAAD4 sees the light of day...

Looking good!

Did you manage to fit 25mm tyres in there?

Thanks Pete, yep 25s went on no probs. Tiniest amount of clearance between seat tube and tyre, so let's hope I don't get any leaves stuck in there ;-)

Maiden voyage is a 30 mile training loop tomorrow, which I am looking forward to.

Legitimately inspired use of headset anodising

I approve.

Very good looking bike. But all your old pics are broken :(

absolute class. Just bought a caad4 to go with my caad7.

Very noice.

The cable adjusters need to be on top of the arms though: they were only shipped like that, so they didn't fall out and get lost.

Thanks for the heads up, totally missed that (n00b error!).

Excellent work! still can't quite believe the condition of that frame. Gutted mine died ):

Finally got it on the scales - just under 7.4kg, which ain't half bad.