Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Point I was trying to make was that the Serotta is my most modern road bike at the moment, and I have a jonesing for something with Di2 and deep carbon that doesn't have mudguards and a rack.

Who buys a Cannondale track and then stresses about their tyres being reasonably priced?! it deserves good rubber.

I see. Valid points.
Blood out, blood in though?Or do some mystic off shore hiding of bikes.

I have sold a few recently, and would sell the Attitude if offered the right money.

Time Machine, Serotta and Criterium are staying though.

I thought the Time Machine is both Road and Commuter?

@Borek not had it long, so still getting it built how I want it. Front tyre was the only one I had lying around that fit the fork at the moment.

@edscoble cheers

How's the build coming along @swedeee

Still waiting for the clowns at Evans to sort replacement forks - 3 weeks and counting. So useless it hurts.

At risk of scaremongering, how on earth are they going to sort out replacement forks for a now out of production and sold out frameset?

When they kept putting back the delivery date of my frame, they offered me an alternative of a similar standard frame at "similar" price. Now, had the CAAD12 been available as frame only at that point in time, I'd have changed my order straight away as I was worried the frame I had ordered wasnt going to be available at all....

....Evans customer service team will really bend over backwards for you, they're excellent, not sure if you've spoken to them yet, but well worth a call to arrange getting this sorted centrally (if you haven't already). I think you get my drift here, if it's something you're open to as an alternative.

Yeah, I've been on to customer services so many times trying to get this resolved. Lots of assurances and no action. They're meant to be taking a fork from one of the last framesets in the warehouse, though they keep failing to do it! Apparently being it's delivered to the local store for collection tomorrow, which I've heard too many times now.

I get your drift, if the delay get's any longer I'll be after an alternative.

My Evo came with Schwalbe One 25s. They seem alright: light, easy to get on and off. Can't vouch for their puncture resistance* or longevity because the bike's only done a couple of hundred miles so far.

Any thoughts on these? Anything marginally better for the same price?

• Over thousands of winter miles I have come to the conclusion that no matter how puncture resistant your tyres claim to be, flint will go through anything.
  

Over thousands of winter miles I have come to the conclusion that no matter how puncture resistant your tyres claim to be, flint will go through anything.

I came to that conclusion after about 20 miles of Norfolk roads ;-)

Haha I think all tyres fall off a cliff-
I had a pair of Veloflex Master on my Trek. For about 2000km they were faultless, then one ride yielded seven punctures.
Same with my last pair of Vittoria Corsa SC 000's of carefree km's then a spate of punctures in one ride.

On my winter bike I've been fitting a mix of Zaffiro Pro Tech / Rubino Pro for the last 4 years. They started to show up on Ribble for about 12 quid a tyre so I got a couple to try out.

They seem to last a fair enough amount, grip well enough, they only weigh about 230g and most importantly they aren't a complete bitch to get on and off the rim out on a country lane in the wet and cold. Now they show up all over the place cheaply so I've never bothered buying anything else. Stick with what works and all that.

This one's still on my winter bike and is shredded to fuck, I really should change it but I'm lazy.

Only had two punctures in all that time too.

^ I'm aware that after saying that I'll be getting that third puncture very soon...

hydros arrived from germany on monday so i fitted the levers (hoods have an extra cm or so reach compared to normal 6800 so might have to let go of the 130mm stem) and connected up gears etc.

the calipers themselves seem very light, but the levers are definitely a shade heavier than standard 6800 levers. the hoses should be perfect for the bb cluster issues

wheeled down to mud dock (cannondale dealer and good with "high end" stuff in the centre of bristol). turns out they had double booked my maintenance slot but rearranged so it should be done tomorrow. mechanic assured me that there should not be an issue with the hydro hosing, but he said he has had some headaches in the past with cannondale internal routing. he also assured me it wouldnt be necessary to switch out the crankset

In my experience, Schwalbe Ones (and previously Ultremos) are the best all around tyre. Especially at the stupidly cheap price you can get them in comparison to everything else.

I'd probably only change them if you wanted something more 'open-tub' like with a high TPI count, but then you're not going to get as good grip or durability.

My main ask (with it being a 'best' bike) is low rolling resistance, weight and not be impossible to take on and off the rim. It seems to fit all of these criteria fine, to the point that I would confidently go on a ride without tyre levers because I can get these tyres on and off by hand no problems.

I hear Conti GP 4000's are good but from what I've seen they are only 10g lighter and I've heard conflicting reports on their ease of fitting, so at a tenner more per tyre I doubt id bother.

Do they still have the table made out of busted lefties?

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I was using Conti GP4000s before swopping to Schwalbe One.

I've found the Ones easier to fit, better puncture resistance and better grip over GP4000S

haha im not sure actually! it isnt my go-to so don't know the place too well

yes

Some more tweeks tonight:

Donut holder reduced dramatically*

Stem extended dramatically*

*Dramatically = 2cm

Fit.