DROP...Cannondale R2000 CAAD4, Full Dura Ace 25th Anniversary, 8Kg Road racing bike £950

frame and fork if your splitting mate, just send me a message

Surely there is somebody out there in the London area who happens to be into cycling?!?! ;)

If I had £10 for everytime someone had said to me "If I hadn't just bought another bike...etc etc..." or "If only I was 2 inches taller/shorter, I would have bitten your hand off!" I would verily be a rich man by now!!

If that's a bump then you need to drop the price as per classifieds rules.

might have more luck on retrobike

TM,
Apologies, I had forgotten that rule. I can understand the thinking behind it (to stop people bumping items on a daily basis and hogging the top of a board) but it has been 2 months since anyone last messaged on my thread, so I don't feel like I was hogging the top of the board, and in truth I am surprised I was chastised for bringing it to the top after 2 months!? :) But point taken. Am I allowed to add some new photos by the way or would that incur more chastisement? ;) )

Road Warrior,
I tried registering a few months ago with the website you mention but I don't think there are any administrators on that forum? I sent 2 or 3 extremely polite emails asking for help/assistance in posting items on there as the programming seems very clunky and I couldn't list anything, but I never received a single reply & hence never managed to list an item.

'Has anyone else been shocked by how many nutjobs there are in cyberspace? '

Classic line, delivered with wonderful innocence.

I used to read "Viz" a lot when at University, and sometimes I think I may have subconsciously absorbed some of the prose of "Top Tips" or indeed Roger Mellies wonderful "Profanisaurus"
An attractive young filly recently commented that I reminded her of "a poor mans' Hugh Grant" which I took as meaning that I was in with a chance, but of course, the reality was somewhat different!!! :)

I don't see how anyone can be a poor man's Hugh Grant. Let's hope he's transitioning through cyberspace even now.

ra1,
Hey, don't knock Huge Grant, I would gladly give away my Cannondale to spend a night with Liz Hurley?!? :)
Funnily enough, earlier today I had been looking at your lovely CAAD 7 which you sold, and before I got to the bottom of the thread and realised it had been sold, I was thinking "Mmmm, that's lurrrvely, I think I might buy it?.." so when I read it was sold, I thought "Phew! Blimey, I nearly had a relapse and bought another bike when I am supposed to be downsizing!?"
So....maybe that's what happens to all the nutjobs in cyberspace who I never hear back from?!
I'm going now.
Before TM chastises me again.

Have you got the dura ace 25th headset and pedals also? And have you got some more photos?

Andre,
Is the headset technically the external part or internal parts of the bearings where the stem goes down to the forks? If its the external part, then no, that says "Deda" on it. The pedals are the ones on the bike. (ie. not Dura Ace) I do not know exactly what constitutes a complete Dura Ace groupset (would that include pedals and headset then?) but the 2-3 pages of original receipts make no mention of any credits for Dura Ace parts not being supplied, therefore I would expect a complete Dura Ace groupset to have been supplied at the time of purchase, whatever that complete groupset was. Given that this bike was only ever ridden for circa 20 mins on a turbo trainer, and then the original purchaser became seriously ill (not whilst on the bike!) I find it hard to believe that they would have swapped out the headset?! Even the cables are Dura Ace 25th Anniversary and the handlebar tape is original unused condition also!!
I could more easily understand them removing clip in pedals (& hence misplacing them) to fit cage pedals to make the bike easier to ride on a turbo trainer, or maybe they didn't even have the correct cycling shoes to fit Dura Ace clip in pedals? It took the original owner 7-8 months of staged payments to be able to actually buy the bike and take it home, (from the receipts) and they became ill within a very short time after getting it home, so its not unthinkable that they wouldn't immediately have had the wherewithal to purchase clip-in shoes. The headset would be much harder to understand as I said....
I have plenty more photos, yes, but it says that you can only upload a max of 5 files on here?
If you would like more photos, please PM me your email address and I will send them over tomorrow. Cheers.

As far as I'm aware the set was given out as in the picture below. See on the top box... the headset and pedals, I could be wrong though.

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Also I PM'd you my email address

Surely there is somebody out there in the London area who happens to be into cycling?!?

Well.. there are. That's why we are all here. Probably just few people who have this money to shell out on a bike, like this bike, and fit the frame size and stem length, crank length, etc.

Surprised that @Jingle_Jangle hasn't purchased this for the groupset...

He did.
He was one of the "crazies" I mentioned in my messages above!!
He contacted me late one evening within 2-3 hours of me listing this bike a couple of months ago saying he would have it and how did I want to proceed...? Then early the next morning, (before I had even read his previous message saying he wanted it), he sent another message saying he had had a change of heart in the intervening 7 hrs and sorry for wasting my time!!
I replied saying no worries, and what had caused his change of heart, but I never heard a dickie bird back from him!!
It's par for the course in cyberspace though!!

The bike is at the crux of all sorts of interesting and problematic relations (aesthetic and ideological—ideological in a limited sense, say, fatness v thiness). There's a really strange tension between the oversized and contemporary and the sleek and classic; it some ways she's really ugly, but really, really interesting .. which you can't say for most bikes. Probably just the almost military finish is worth the money. I think your cyberjunkies are probably great sophisticates in weighing their own versions of something like these tensions which may well be modeled in their own minds in inward-facing ways.

Sorry, of course just leaving aside dura-ace strippers who really are weird.

Bignose? are you the chap who bought my 60cm Capo a few years ago?!
Is this sold yet? Its very tempting...

Crikey, is this still for sale?
One hour north from London? Whereabouts?

damn this is one of those times i wish i was a little bit shorter! GLWS

There are a few large snouts around but only one Captain.... Na that was me, Capo was a great bike.

Haha! Hey man hope you're well? I really regretted selling that frame.. Do you still have it? Hope its had a good life! Really was lovely. I always remember the sexy sweeping seatstays it had!
Ever since I sold it ive been looking out for a 58cm frameset of the same model year that I sold you! Even at 6ft2 I always felt it was just a tiny bit too big for me.

Alas no, it was moved on to make way for a burls which was then moved on to make way for a plastic bike with discs which has had next to no use and will likely be moved on soon as it's now being out ridden by an old 853 with mudguards, the dale stayed on here though, unless it's moved again....