Current Projects chat and miscellany

Done! Just need to add some small stuff, paint, some wood on the cargo bit..

^ such good work.

been wanting to build one for myself, solid work for sure!!

Need some advice while I can still run away if necessary. Bought this '03 Cannondale Scalpel for £440 all in. Comes with both a Lefty DLR Ti and a Fatty Ultra 88 Si, but both are likely to need some servicing. What can I expect, any experts out there? I saw @Howard pulled one apart, but that one looked pretty shot.

Here's what the seller has said:

The rear shock is in good condition - it has been set to 'off' most of
the time I have had the bike as only ever used the bike to go to my
parents which is all road type riding. The front lefty shock would
probably need attention as would the original one I believe, these
have never been serviced. They were both good when I purchased the
bike and I have probably only done 500 miles on it in the last 10
years of ownership. I can't say how many miles were done on them
before mind.

Basically should I abandon ship or is it worth a punt? Slightly my dream bike from when I was 15.

@Rik_Van_Looy shattt itt - I'm keeping this one .. i hope. Rides nicely, perfect size/geo, perfect material - alu obvs and decent paint ;)

@Antidotes bruv, don't let this non SE guy deceive you - what happened to #SEBoyz? We gots to stick Together, I'll defo keep it for as long or even longer than i kept fort :) Defo

Bruv, you're killin me. Take a look at the potential of the T7...

@Rik_Van_Looy here she is..

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You can't leave that gathering dust mate.... Build it now, it's stunning....

@ Tomvanhalen

There are several places that service the forks.
The lefty forks have a following in the fat-bike world as you can get extra large offset crowns for 4-5" tyres, even if it's knackered inside it will still have value for the hub and any serviceable parts.

@Antidotes , sigh - I see the loyalty to SE is weak :( Smh, shouldn't even have that Lewisham badge as your avatar. I was even thinking of giving you the "Senior Bueno" title.

PS. That Duratec is amazing, damn - any in my size?

Black tape was definitely the right choice: perfect with the black stem/HT/TT/ST.

:(

We can still go for rides right?

They are ridiculously rare on the second hand market, probably because they cost 900 euros new :O

My T7 is four generations old now and the new T11 looks completely different. This was an ebay buy as frame/forks+all components minus wheels, I made the seller a cheeky offer for the frame only and here we are. Made a thread for it - http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/265328/#comment12190211

Wow! That's really nice! What kind of tube is that?

I had some guests this week end, so we took my three bikes:

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They are ridiculously rare on the second hand market, probably because
they cost 900 euros new :O
This

I too got lucky with mine - a most generous price from @scherrit - I think he was originally looking to distribute them but the price was a bit offputting - justified in the build quality I guess, but it's still difficult to find anyone willing to part with that sort of dosh for an aluminium track frame...

Here's a T6 in action

That's good to know. Hopefully it's fine, had an update from the seller

The bike has always been stored inside, most of the time in a house,
perhaps a few months in total in a garage.

I have had a look at the shocks. The lefty has it's full range of
movement and has, as far as I can tell, good resistance when pushing
on it. It returns to it's original position. The original fork does
not fully extend to it's max after compressing. The turning dial on
the original does have a crack through the plastic I noticed - this is
probably the reason, along with the lack of return travel, that I
swapped it out years ago for the lefty.

Seems promising on the lefty front? Can't be in too bad condition

do it!

It's a monster.

Well done!

Bit out of touch with service on fatty headshox, years ago it used to be mud-dock in Bristol (for south west anyway for cannondale)
There are a couple of cannondale parts specialists out there (quick goodle-fu showed a few) of the 2 forks the fatty might be harder to source parts for, but the lefty has some aftermarket support on hubs and some parts, either way, either fork has some value if broken for spares.
Retro bike might be a good place to enquire with some extra google-fu, no idea if there is a special cannondale owners forum somewhere.

A friend had a couple of Delta V's back in the 90's the headshox fatty's from memory where pretty good and fairly user serviceable although he was, and still is a bike mech :)

^ On a west-country tip TF may be worth contacting - It seems they're in Westbury nowadays.
http://www.tftuned.com/service/9-cannondale
BITD they used to do my AC World Force and a mates MC San Andreas - they certainly knew their stuff

I remember someone saying they don't touch pre-2006 stuff but I'll give them a buzz

Strip/polish some 3t bits?

Or go ti?

Is there a thread on here about stripping paint in the post effective nitromors age?

Google boil nitromors

Try J D Whisker Ltd.