Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

I lol'd at the disdain comment about the weight, a smug above 8kg is pretty decent for a 105 equipped bike.

Moreso at the CAAD12 105 fork, as the Ultegra model have the lighter 280g fork.

I'm glad to see that its not just UK shops who have a hard time setting up OTP bikes

mine also had 0 scobles of saddle2bar

no pie plate though

well it is ww after all

Good info, many thanks!

The 25.4 seatpost is really messing with my 'all finishing kit must be the same series/manufaturer' philosophy. I might just go FSA up from and just accept the current seat post is made by them* - Can't seem to find a SAVE seatpost like yours in the UK that's more than 300mm. Will measure mine when i get home to see if it'll fit.

*maybe.

ye the 25.4 gives headache when trying to curate seatpost to stem -match :,(

I asked them few weeks before I went for a test ride could it be possible to swamp the seatpost, and when I went there, they had already ordered me that carbon post. Heh, the benefits of lbs over internet.

curate

DTM

mirth :D

I'll reserve judgement for now and play fair. But a replacement bike is on the way and I'm happy for now... But a picture speaks a thousand words. How??

And it's already booked in with Soho for when I get the new one. Hope it doesn't fall apart on the way over...

@Dammit - they were telling me how they are trying to source you one still. So I know if my frame goes missing whose door to knock on first!

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But a picture speaks a thousand words. How??

Someone used a ball-head allen key. It just so happens that if you drop one in it rests on something below the top-cap that puts the tapered part of the key just where you don't want it...where it can't bite... and you just cut the top-cap up instead.

It was you. Wasn't it? Haha.

I'll pass this information onto the person putting my new one together tomorrow/Thursday... Thank you.

It's one of those things, you'd expect a home mechanic to do this kinda thing. Not somebody who is paid to do it as a job... Or at least hold their hands up having known they'd done it and not ship it's as a new bike for a customer.

Anyway,
'"redacted" are shit thread' is more appropriate for this. (There is probably one)

Ride home from the station was nice though.

FARK I really think i should have grabbed that CAAD10. My canti's are killing me.

What bother me is that how much force it been put through, a component that doesn't need such force.

Usually when people want to be a mechanic, they're put through bike building and the occasional puncture repairs, after a year or two, start doing repair/Cytech 2.

Methinks it's probably a kids who gotten overexcited.

ye like you barely any torque to use the fork bung

If it was the classic ball head key fuck up then not much force at all is required to make a mess of it. Soft alu top cap, steel key, small force but tiny surface area so much gouge.

Methinks it's probably a kids who gotten overexcited.

Yeah, one that didn't read the manual either:

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are they implying not even 3mm spacer? cut the tube below the top of stem?

Yes.

Nobody does this though.

Except me and select others on ere

I do this on steel and alu steerers.

i know the clamping bolts are below the top of the stem.

The point with the SI steerer and top cap is that the bung and top cap is used as a brace to resist the clamping forces of the stem. The bung and top cap reinforcer must be where the stem clamp is - hence no spacers.

Thanks Cannondale etc

I ignored rule #1 and did mine myself. Am not dead (yet).

I ignore 3# and cut free hand like a rebel

I chewed the excess steerer off with my teeth

Do I win?