Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

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Latest revision of my CAAD12. Added new Vittoria Corsas in 30c, Specialized Power saddle and a general overhaul. Been great getting on it post-lockdown here in Barcelona. Better photo to follow...

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Great courtyard! Love that colourway, its the best one IMO.

although it says SI, that would be the same fork he already has (with a different paintjob). the one you posted has alloy dropouts, just like the premium ones that he has in his frame. the carbon dropout ones started at premium+, the SI ones had nothing else written on them (and the letters are filled, not just outlines - see https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14811731/)

Nice!

Been trying to track down thru axle forks for mine. They're silly RRP and don't come up on the market 😩

some years yes as they would transition from CAAD 2-3-4-5 etc.

iirc this was 98-02 timescale. The bets thing to do is to get the catalog from Vintagecannondale.com

that looks odd, the decals don't seem right.

Time manufactured Slice SI was introduced together with the Caad5, SI meaning it had an integrated headset. Premium/Premium+ came around 5 years later when they moved production offshore. So no, not the same fork. Chevron steerer weave, different crown mold, yada yada. Weighs ~400 uncut w/star nut.

The previous owner said it was a limited edition colour way, not sure though...

Possibly a respray?

I traced the frame number back to JUNE/1996 on vintagecannondale.com, but no sign of this in any of the archived catalogues.

I think respray as well. Could you ID the seatpost, is it steel or Ti?

PMP Titanium seat post,

The tt decals say Alberto Bike Store, which is an bike store located in the Swiss Alps.

Yeah, it’s the position of the cad3 logo that does it, was usually towards the seat.

Still, plenty of weird dales out there that don’t appear in the catalogues

i stand corrected - is the alloy dropout fork lighter?

what do you mean by 'moved production'? of the forks? because my frame says handmade in usa and had a premium+ fork (catalogue confirms originality)

Thanks, done :-)

Decided to stick with the 9.

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Nice, & the McGill deck. Seeing a kid on a pink one of these in around 87 was one of the first things that got me into skating.

I miss my CAAD9, even though I had for less than 3 months before a car decided to knock me off it. Need to keep a look out for a 54cm.

Cheers. Pretty much the same story for me, I actually saw the Bones Brigade when I was about 10 and was obsessed with the Mcgill graphics. Funnily enough as I could never afford a Powell when I was young I had a big Mcgill sticker on my blank that I picked up in my LBS. The same shop that I would stare for hours at bikes I could never afford in!

That deck actually just arrived this week as an early 40th present to myself to hang on the wall. It's an 84 reissue but I'm still on the hunt for the later pink model you speak of.

Anyway, bikes...

My google-fu is usually decent, but I'm not turning up many fork options for a CAAD12 Disc. Customer has chopped his fork so short that even one of my slam covers and a Syntace FlatForce won't save it. Any suggestions?

There are a few stem options with a single bolt clamp. A quick google shows a 3T & a zipp version.

It's too far gone for that, 20mm from compression ring to the saw cut.

Given Cannondale's stellar reputation for not giving a fuck about aftersales, presumably getting a direct replacement isn't an option. In that case, wouldn't any 1 1/4" tapered carbon road disc fork with 45mm rake do the job? The Enve Road Disc fork comes in a 1 1/4" tapered option, has 43mm rake, which is close enough, so as long as the A-C measurement is close enough that could be an option. Not cheap, admittedly, but that might help him remember to measure twice, cut once.

I was faced with a similar problem with Cycliste used her SuperSix Evo HM to as a sledge to slide down a flight of marble stairs on top of, wrecking the fork. In the end she just got a Lynskey frameset instead.

Given Cannondale's stellar reputation for not giving a fuck about aftersales, presumably getting a direct replacement isn't an option

He already asked, they were as helpful as you'd think. There's one on a German breaker's site.

I wondered about the Enve, but I'm not sure about the AC. I made it 400 for the Cannondale working backwards from the geo, but it doesn't look that long when you see the tyre clearance. If it's 400 there's a Ritchey WCS Cross that's 2/3 the price of Enve, but still a painful lesson.

Doesn't sound like the customer is that good at measuring, but he could always practise by trying to measure the A-C distance on the existing forks.

Cannondale did eventually sort me a replacement fork, but it took nearly a month.

And it wasn't the right colour. Or the exact model.