Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

edit double post

Yeah - perhaps an upgrade to hydraulic or some compressionless cable outers - but the former is going to add more weight and expense to a bike which is already above my weight and cost plans, as a second bike, and I think hydro road levers look shit.

As said, hydraulic.

You've gone from the pinnacle of rim brakes to a low tier disc option, not really a valid comparison.

Any hints/tips?

• Yokozuna Reaction housing.
  
• BB7 or TRP HY/RD.
  
  

It's entirely possible to make it feel like a full hydraulic with cable operated brakes, I've done that on several customer bicycles.

Lastly, and importantly (think you already knew this), wear in the pads as much as you can, and you'll get a drastic improvement in braking performance, first time on new pads felt like riding through a wet puddle on a rims brakes.

I think compressionless housings might be a good place to start

sigh

More money....

I'm also a little worried by the clearance in the BB shell, I'm almost certain the rear brake outer will be touching the BB spindle. Introducing alu/solid outer to that equation is going to either chew through expensive outer or expensive spindle....

....I was genuinely amazed and very pissed off when I saw the cable routing design. They obviously only thought of hydraulic brakes.

I guess another option is to somehow rig some cable stops and a guide through the shell.

I was also thinking about the hunt x mason. That price range of disc road wheels seem to have very limited options

is it definitely only full length outers for the rear brake? makes sense for hydro i guess. nightmare

Looking at picking up a 2010 Cannondale Supersix, it comes with 2 wheelsets (ambrosio/ultegra handbuilts, and a set of DT swiss 420s) and is built up with full 2008 ultegra. Is it worth £480?
And how much of an upgrade is it going to be on my Specialized Sectuer elite? I'm going for a test spin tomorrow, just want to see if the price and upgrade is right.

More money....

Luckily just the housing, if the guys at SBC is anything like the guys at The London Cycle Workshop, they will make it work.

(BTW, it's not just the CAAD10, but also on the Synapse, I hope Cannondale rethink it in the newer CAAD12/Synapse Hi-mode carbon).

Can someone PM me when I can come back and mock the early adopters (of disc)?

100% only full length

compressionless housing?

Luckily I can't see your reply image....

.....I suspect it's sarcasm and mockery

@Dick I've got a length of Yokozuna cabling you can have gratis. Probably not enough for the rear, should be enough for the front?

Yeah, it works, really well, they did an awesome job, I guess it's just not anywhere near the expectation I had of disc braked road riding!

@amey >>>>>>

A Rotor chainset which snapped cos a cable was rubbing against the spindle

1 Attachment

can we not pls

I love you

Will very gratefully try that out

If it makes a noticable difference I'll upgrade the rear

that guy looks pretty wreckless tbh. missing chainring bolt

This was my exact concern.

I'm gonna put some miles on it this week/weekend and then remove the chainset and see what's going on down there early next week.

If it's rubbing I'm gonna have to design some kind of sheath.

Or try and route externally.

filth

Or try and route externally.

I forget who, but someone on here got a carbon CX frameset and did this exactly due to the tight bend that a compressionless housing couldn't do, he got Di2 and TRP HY/RD.

I was thinking more like rigging some kind of cable stop into the bottom bracket routing so it gives the spindle clearance, and then also rigging a cable stop into the rear stay, or just the bottom bracket routing.

I'll see if it's rubbing first.

Couldn't you just heli tape the spindle?