Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

surely that compromises on ball bearing size and presence of plastic in the cups = creaky

Tired old disc vs rim brake arguments

sick fades

I like to make the effort.

sick fades

Actually reminded me of one of those bikes, from the company that USED TO do nice paint...

Dem bar-ends.

was just thinking the same thing looking at all these black undistinguishable modern dales

no offence meant to any black undistinguishable modern dale owners !

It's true that the bearings are smaller, but it certainly isn't creaky due to the plastic cups that surround the bearings. Incidentally neither of my Cannondales have a traditional BB30 and neither creak, but my friends CAAD X is one of the loudest bikes I've ever heard.

I think this RAAD10 might stand out a bit... That's the intention anyway!
You'll have to speak to @Borek for some full build pics.

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Mother of god..! That's good

OIIIII that's fucking rowdy!!!!

Very very busy!!

It's not creaky because it's not fucked yet.

Funnily enough Cannondale can manufacture frames to their own tolerances. Creaking from dale frames will always be from fucked bearings or a botched installation and nothing to do with machining tolerances

There's a reason why Shimano make all of their pressfit cups out of plastic

Because the bb86/90 or whatever standard doesn't have tight enough tolerances for them to make them out of metal?

Cannondale have however admitted a problem with their own BB30 bearings supplied oem being out of tolerance.
Running change on 2015/16 models to better ones if i remember correctly.

I can hear epic 80's syths techno playing when you get on that bike. That's shit hot stuff.

Pretty much.

You can see their logic though, it only takes something to go minorly wrong taking a bb30 out and you're not in a good place, the metal on the carbon means that if something has to give it'll be the latter. The vinyl/plastic cups give a bigger margin for error, interestingly though Trek's bb90 seems to have a much better reputation against creaking.

The vinyl/plastic cups give a bigger margin for error, interestingly though Trek's bb90 seems to have a much better reputation against creaking.

I'd wager a big chunk of this is because there's simply less BB90 in circulation, whereas BB30 has been around since what...the CAAD6 in 2002? And was licensed as an open standard that anyone could implement.

My Cannondale has developed the tick. I just ignore it and it usually goes away.

So much is fucked about that bike that a noisey BB is laughably minor

I just ignore it and it usually goes away.

This also worked with my Ti. Stanton :)

Racist

I take everything shitty I said about my CAAD10 Disc back.

I slammed the stem (as far as I can cos of the chode stem) when I got in from work, threw on the Lycra and went and battered it around Swain's and regents for 30km and it was a fucking ball.

Fuck back ache - it can suck a dick. This bike is sick and so much fun.

I was even notably impressed by the discs.

Don't know what was wrong with me last night!

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