Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Where did they drill it?

Finally Cannondale getting rid of the old CAAD8, calling it the Optimo instead, basically a scaled down CAAD12, both rim and disc model;

Thank fuck they didn't go for the internal routing of the CAAD12;

The only reason I'm liking this because I can finally fix the error that Cannondale assembled it originally.

Where does it need to be drilled? The CAAD12 are internally routed, wherever a cable go through, wire can also.

Is there's no port on the front derailleur? Haven't look at that, going to tomorrow at work.

Downtube entry (right), rear mech exit

Joined the gang again.

Still looking for a nice looking light weight 15mm setback seatpost...

Getting it painted as soon as I get back from vacation.

How much for the front rings please? Presume they are the SpideRing variety?

Nope they're the SL rings - FSA branded.

Gah. The new mech and cassette it's is then.
Thanks for prompt response!

Holy shit, those bar-ends are massive!

Tri. BadBoy?

Over the winter I rebuilt my 1999 CAAD 3 with a mix of NOS & new.

This thing is still a load of fun.

Awesome!

Beautiful bike. I used to lust after that era of Volvo Cannondale bikes when I was younger from reading about and seeing Martyn Ashton in MBUK

I do not understand why they didnt just put a normal fork on this.

Repair a puncture without removing the wheel

Is that their reasoning or yours?

If they had done it would result in a complete lack of wow factor.

I don't understand why they didn't put on a short travel headshok as a more robust alternative to Lefty Oliver.

Sort of a joke but nonetheless a valid benefit.

I imagine a marketing blurb somewhere will say something about it being stiffer/lighter/more aero. Atleast thats what the bloke at the Dear Susan stand at Bespoke said about his mtb with double 'rightie':

stiffer/lighter/more aero

Rigid lefty is none of those things.

Except maybe stiffer, but stiffness to weight < a normal fork with a maxle or something

I'd like to see the figures for 'stiffness' in a bouncy lefty vs rigid one.

Probably comparable. Stiffness to weight is what is interesting here, though.

Bouncy Lefty is probably the 'stiffest' but it's also the heaviest, with its internals and dual crown. Rigid is probably second, but is also heavier than, and has no advantage over, a traditional rigid dual blade single crown fork.

Something to do with one tube with a large diameter and small wall thickness being lighter than two tubes with small diameters and large wall thicknesses...maybe, I'm probably wrong but it's the kind of thing a company would say to try and sell more bikes

Probably cause it'll have a massive gap between the fork crown and tyres if using a conventional fork, suspension corrected and all.

My folk-physics indicates that, with equal mass, the tube gets stiffer as its diameter increases.

None of these things...Bouncy Lefty, Rigid Lefty and a trad CX fork have equal mass.

If the single crown single sided fork had any kind of advantage, other fabricators would build them.

As it happens, Bouncy Lefty has an advantage over other suspensions forks - stiffness to weight - and other fabricators don't build them because Cannondale have a patent. But they do build similar things like the U.S.E Sub.