Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

In that case, heres a repost of my raddondale for the new page:

Time to start up the 'Rad Cannondales - from sometime between when they cracked a lot to before they became really confusing' thread.

Here's my admittedly much less rad one, then.

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Yea it was qr, stem, pedal or chainring bolts. Greased everythign and silence. As usual.

and what is 6800?

Probably about 146ish.

okay .. does BB interface matter? i.e. would 6800 in BB90 have a diff Q factor than 6800 with BSA?

Does the axle change?

nope but BB90 has maxed out the shimano axle length .. I think the pre-load bolt engages less in it than BSA.

Is it axle based rather than BB interface then?

What is SiSl then?

It's the width between the pedals. So it's only made smaller by changes to crank design or axle length. BB makes no difference, unless there's a different axle.

Im going to chime in and say as the curret owner of Dammits last cannondale, i have done several thousand KM on a SRAM BB30 without a peep

Could I compromise and have a small spacer (or two) underneath the stem and get rid of the conical one?

to satisfy the moaners, here's a sweet dale for you

Same bearings that were in the frame when you got it or did you change them?

Bet it's BB creaks

And no, slam or gtfo

I have 10mm comical, 15 looks wrong but 10 is somewhat unnoticeable

I probably could slam but don't wanna cut steerer afterwards. Will be using this bike for 300km+ rides so really don't want it super aggressive position.

Yeah, don't slam mate, I'm only joking, use a zero stack headset with spacers

I still can't believe you, the rider of the black Harley, ride this bike. I think you have identity issues.

What is SiSl then?

144 or 141.5 if you use the old axle with the new arms - and the arms don't mash your chainstays up.

7900 is nearer to 150 apparently - and doesn't have as good a heal clearance as a BB30 crank.

I like rad bikes ¯_(ツ)_/¯ no discrimination

New, I wasnt sure what state yours were in, plus you'd glued them, so i decided to clean and strip the shell and put new ones in to save and possible faff

what did you grease on the QR? where it contacts the frame. I am going to give that a try as I have flimsy ti xc mtb ones. the noise from mine varies from nothing to creak/tick and then KNOCK

i will genuinely be amazed if its not BB creak as ever single one of my bikes has had BB creak after a while. or have I just been living a lie?

y no copper grease? I assume you mean anti-sieze?

Because it's designed to both lubricate and stop dissimilar metals from chemically bonding. It does this by having lumps of other metals floating in it.

If you want to stop your press fit bb from pinging and popping, putting a load of grit in between the press-fit surfaces aint gonna help :)

Because the fit is so tight - the shell is smaller than the bearing - very little can get between the two anyway, but a spot of normal grease won't do any harm, but personally I don't bother.

Others use retaining compound like loctite (the glue that spotter is referring to).

Oh and here's a bike