Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Correct - the Lightening Crank, although I think it might have moved on a bit.

Worth remembering that the Si crank is based on the Magic Motorcycle Crank that Cannondale produced under license. They get credit for BB30, but the fundamentals of the Si crank were laid in 1994 or whenever by Alex Pong.

Hah, everyone stands on someone else's shoulders I guess.

@Shroom considering following your lead with the SRAM red. Currently my talbot is running 1x with a sram X9 rear derailleur, and red YAW shifters.

I still have the red front and rear derailleurs and a good condition 10 speed cassette and chain just lying around, so I'd either need to buy new shifters, or buy a force right and just an S500 lever for the left, or just buy a new pair of red shifters.

Have you sold your 5800? No idea what kind of price I'd get for shifters, derailleurs, chain and cassette..

is it a decent weight saving? I have noooo idea!

is it a decent weight saving?

Not really. Groupset is a preference thing. If you want sram, I'd move red shifters to the dale and get (used?) force and S500 (both you can buy as single at bike24 new) on Talbot. And maybe Red brakes for matchy matchy. Then look out for SiSL on ebay etc.

Weight savings will mainly come from wheels. Get latex tubes pronto.

or Conti Supersonics, which are 25g lighter than a vittoria latex and don't need pumping up daily

(but do cost 12 quid)

Wouldn't the ride quality be of a butyl tube without the added advantage of pinch flat resistance of latex?

I dont do latex for weenie-ism (shot roadies say >>>>>).

Groupset chat >>>>>>

Tyre weight chat >>>>>

Sold my 5800 already plus the wheels for £250. @amey is right with the preference thing. You can have a go at my one if it will help make your mind up.
Changing it to sram made a difference weight wise, it's not that it's a waste but could've been money spent better somewhere else.

From functional bikes thread, such touring so wow.

Nice

Now weighing up whether frame only will work out cheaper/better.. havent given evans my cyclecscheme voucher yet..

oh yeah!

Will you now be riding for 'Team Instagram'?

Will I now? I've been riding for team Instagram for years

I might have got another one.......

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Currently looking to switch out my cockpit on my caad12. Are there any companies that make a 25.4 seatpost other than Thomson?

Cockpit usually mean the handlebar/shifter/stem.

Unless you need to change saddle position, just leave it as it is.

Ah, I see. I thought it meant everything bar the wheels. I'm after an inline seatpost rather than the setback cannondale seatpost supplied with the caad12. So far I can only find Thomson as an alternative.

It's pretty much Thomson on a carbon Hylix one... no idea why you wouldn't go Thomson (apart from the fact that they don't make a Masterpiece in 25.4)

I just wanted options 😅
Thomson it is then!

I've got masterpieces on 2/3 bikes, really mad I can't get one for my giant 😡

stuck some 26c gravelkings on my 2015 ss evo (plenty of clearance) and tackled some pretty hairy gravel/fireroad/grass routes today. Who needs a gravel bike eh?

Looks like the Dyad pull shock is going to be no more from 2017.

Will be interesting to see what they do with the Trigger.

Been checking a lot, and there's not a lot of options for 25.4, thomson, hylix, and cannondales own ones so far that I'm familiar of.
I bought a Hylix seatpost last week, Supposed to come this week. I'll post some pictures when it get here if you still havent bought the thomson.