Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

I'll try and find them in amongst the Tolstoy-esque epics that are his current project threads then as there's a reasonably priced caad 9 i'm looking at in stealthy black and I've just rebuilt my hope hubs onto some 23mm DT swiss 460's ;)

My CAAD 9 f+f will be back up for sale soon if anyone's interested lemme know

Silver

Paging #TRA, #TRA to the thread please, we need your graphical talents.

7.8kg at the moment. The only really nice bits are a Zipp stem and the force 22 cranks. everything else is budget stuff. Sram apex, Deda RHM bars etc.

Ha, what's the C12 disco brief then? Silver thompson post, silver Si cranks and gold rings. Silver stem?

Broadly, yes.

Initial build is going to be a SRAM CX1 ring and XX1 cassette, XTR rear mech, R-785 shifters, ENVE rims with Strada Bianca tyres, silver Thomson stem and post, silver Hollowgram crank arms, carbon SMP, Rotundo bars, bosh.

And of course the Saeco colours.

..and kcnc orange ano bolt bling kit.. ;p

@Sparky is selling a silver 27.2 Thomson...

Sadly I need 25.4

@Dammit annoyingly I've left the .psd on my work mac and I'm working from home for the next 2 weeks.

I'll see if I can dig out the JPG and get on it though - who needs luxury cat food campaign concepts anyway...

My cats might have something to say about that, but they're not the ones who purchase the cat food, so I'd ignore them.

Replaced the bb on my synapse at the weekend. Used the proper park tools for removal and installation. Noticed the wavy washer wasn't really compressed so used a couple of the 0.5mm shims that came with the sram bb. Torqued it all back up to 40nm and looked good. Feels a touch stiff when spinning the cranks in the stand.

Reckon that'll loosen up with a ride or have the shims caused it or have I fucked up the bearing installation?

Clearance all good then?

How stiff? Does it stop spinning the momdbf you let go?

Not the moment no, but much quicker than it used to

Clearance all good then?

Hope so! Otherwise I will have to size down the tyres, but hopefully I can use them. I've been zooming around on 32's recently and apart from the lack of cornering grip they are fun.

Synapse Hi Mod carbon or CAAD? There doesn't seem to be much difference in price but I'm wary of the 105/Ultegra difference in the frame spec so...

Depends if you want synapse geo

Taller headtube, less racy, more clearance

Still stiff and feels quick tho

Was all primed on a caad 9 then when I went to bid ebay logged me out! Went for £160 too :(

Will prob hang off for a CAAD but thanks again for filling the huge blanks in my cannondale appreciation!

This is so smart. What are the wheels?

I have some Kinlins for sells that look just like them...

Cheers! The wheels in that pic are 3T Accellero that were purchased on some mad deal can't remember the exact price but they were under £200.

They are 38mm deep and 23mm wide, proper wide U shaped rim. great wheels, just a little portly. Think they are 1900 grams without cassette or skewers.

Nice, thanks! They're just about exactly what I'm looking for.
Found them here for £200 too