Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

I'm looking at buying my first geared road bike at the minute. Does anyone have any experience with the disc synapse with tiagra? There happens to be one in my size on sale for £679. The discs seem appealing because it'll get ridden in all weathers, would I notice the difference in the wet?

I think this is finally 'finished'.

Rad, much enve and much want!

Beast machine!!

Very good. Have any high resolution pictures?

My caad 7 optimo nearly done ongoing project though

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Thanks. I don't own a camera unfortunately so phone pics are the best ive got.

That caad7 is very smart though i'd desticker the wheels.

Is the caad optimo not available as a frameset?
I really quite like it for a commuter, winter road bike and maybe to bikepack a bit on but I'd rather build my own, can't afford the full build cost and don't want to get tied into a cycle to work scheme.

Can you get 25mm tyres (on wide rims) in a 2010 CAAD 9?

Think the rear has stayed the same throughout most of the years. My mate runs 25s with space in a caad frame but an older one.

Nope. The seat stays are inherited from the System Six and the chain stays are beefed up compared to previous Caad frames.

@Scilly.Suffolk would be wise to test for himself.

Cool, all speculation on my part. I do have a system six though and that can take 25c on 17mm internal wheels.
Also I thought it was the other way around, the System six got its seatstays from the caad9?

Thanks both, I'll take that as a "maybe".

Anything a Cannondale novice should be aware of? BB30 I'm ok with; 27.2mm seatpost and 1 1/8" steerer etc looks uncontroversial.

Headset is campy spec integrated - bearings for it are easy to come by.

Cable guide is a pita to find if it's missing.

It's a great frame, bit racy by today's standards.

You buying that Liquigas 'set? Get it repainted pls :)

My 2009 caad9 is running 25mm comfortably on standard rims

Fangs.

Not me, a friend is interested.

By "racy", do you mean the ride or the geo? What I found suggested the ride wasn't as harsh as earlier models and it's got a little more stack than her current bike.

What cable guide? Do they go through the BB?

Noted.

@edscoble you're the go-to bike shop guy. Any idea if the caad optimo will be available as a frameset? does it have much more tyre clearance than a caad12 disc? Thats the only thing stopping me getting one of them is I'd like 32c in the winter or on long trips

Also, full build weights are 2kg more for the optimo than the 12, obviously this is down mostly to groupset and build but I can't find frame weights anywhere.

Cable guide is clipped the bottom of the BB shell.

Racy as in stiff and fast handling :)

Highly doubtful, the Optimo replace the dated CAAD8 (and there's no Optimo rim brake model in the UK AFAIK).

It's a budget entry level frameset, and they tend not to be sold as frameset, however it is a better well thought out design in term of cable routing.

I just wanted a disc caad bike that would take more than 28c. Shame

Buy the full bike. Knowing cannondale's frame only pricing strategy it will be a much better deal.

I'm currently riding a full carbon BMC with Sram red 10 speed and mavic cosmics for about 500 quid. Bargain huntings my thing, I'm not gonna spunk over a grand on an off the peg tiagra bike.
Caad12 framesets now just over 400 from last year so might go that route.

Also, full build weights are 2kg more for the optimo than the 12, obviously this is down mostly to groupset and build but I can't find frame weights anywhere.