Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Got the top cap - cheers

went to fit it and found a crack/chip on the top of my steerer FFS

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Steerer looks long, surely you can take a bit off the top?

found a crack/chip on the top of my steerer

From the imprint, it looks like somebody gronked on a wedge clamp stem too high up and without the Cannondale reinforcing plug in place.
And this is why you don't buy second hand carbon.

10 year warranty on forks though if the original owner can chase it up for you

Yeah going to cut bad section off and see what rest of it looks like as got a fair bit of room to go with

Yep just hoping the imprinted bit hasn’t weekend the carbon, was going to fit one of the longer colnago expander plugs and move stem down so the top section is just a spacer or summit

Didn’t know that will try chase old owner 👍🏻

Didn’t know that will try chase old owner 👍🏻

Don't bother, zero chance of getting that sorted on warranty

will get the steerer cut about 1-1.5cm then check the rest of the fork, looks like it is literally a chip on the inside as if its been knocked/dropped then its fractured when stems been tightened

Are you saying that's not why people buy Cannondales, for their top notch warranty?

#feltcutemightdeletelater ˆˆ

no company would warranty that

no company would warranty that

Pretty sure that's covered by page one of the user manual:

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All sorted now, had fork cut down and checked chip hadn’t spread so happy days. Fitted stem a lot lower and fitted a different (bigger) expander plug

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Well nice.

How do you find the bar-bag of that set? I was tempted by the flash sale.

Cannondale are a bit funny in their fork instructions - they don’t like it if you run spacers above the stem.

they don’t like it if you run spacers above the stem

Because you're supposed to use their heavy duty flanged expander/reinforcing plug in a very specific position relative to the stem clamp.
They could avoid the issue by making the steerer from a bit more material, but adding 50g to the fork wouldn't look so good in their marketing material, so they make the fork too light and then void your warranty if you fail to use their 50g plug

Agreed it's a bit silly but bicycles

-looks at spacer above stem-

what fate can I expect?

Firey death

Or it will be fine

Just make sure the bung is long enough so that the portion of steerer that’s clamped is also braced by the bung.

↑This

Service conditions vary a lot, Cannondale may be a little conservative since loads of forks which are just as light don't come with such prescriptive instructions. They are effectively asking you to eliminate hoop stress in the steerer by having the expander provide outward radial pressure to balance the stem clamp's inward radial pressure.

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Obviously crying out for the matching spacers and top cap now #spam

Yep just looking at which to get now 😜

Looking for a 56cm 2.8 (700c) for a project build if anyone has or knows of one!

Listed in the Wanted forum https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/349711/#comment15362972

Will try to emulate some of the stunning 2.8 builds seen here.