Painting a Cannondale CAAD10 Track

I have a Cannondale CAAD10 Track frame in the hideous alu and green colours. I need to get it repainted and I thought about painting it in the original Cannondale Track glacier blue and slapping on the original stickers.

What do you guys think? Would it be a disgrace or an homage to the original?
Also, I'm not doing it to trick people into thinking it's an original, nor will I be selling it as an original (not that the two can be mistaken in my eyes)

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Do it! if cannondale would have painted the classic glacier blue they would have sold tons more.

Yeah nice.

Oh that's really nice actually. Is it a forum bike?
Looks like a repainted capo?

@bkromann repainting the Caad10 gets my vote.
I think the original colours were a big mistake. Would have sold better if it had been any colour other than green

Fatcreations has done some great jobs including cannondales...check out his insta

Don’t think it’s on here. It’s from pedalroom. And yeah it’s a capo

And yeah it’s a capo

What's a capo?
And do you have a link to Pedalroom?

Cannondale Capo was a bike single speed bike released years back, it was essentially a caad5 track frame but with sort of road bike geometry and brake bosses. They were/are cool as fuck. I had one in raw brushed alu finish and hugely regret selling it.

This is my old one https://flic.kr/p/mV5FFT

Have a look around here for more inspo
https://www.pedalroom.com/bikes/tagged/cannondale-capo?o=title&view=photogrid

I think the caad5 track and capo frames are much nicer than the new caad10

I had one briefly last year. This is the only photo I have of it

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https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/cannondale-capo-track-15843

Holy flat bar!

Got any pics of your bike as it is? C-track blue looks best with silver kit IMO. The CAAD10 has mostly black components so how about Icelandic green? As you'll probably strip it before painting you might want to consider trying a raw finish first. @LucasNilsson did a nice job especially with the CAAD12 fork

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/281483/

Its been done a few times with SS Evo frames.

@snoops

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I prefer the lesser spotted Icelandic green colourway of the OG C-Track to be honest though.

Something that could be quite cool and incorporates both elements of the old and the new - go from a raw finish into the Cannondale blue. Design wise its akin to what they did (but they did it in green).

I have an SSEVO I’m thinking of painting. Considered the blue but it’s not quite my thing. The Icelandic green is looking more and more tempting.

Any other classic Cannondale paint schemes? Other than the flat and primary Saecos.

I've got one of these cannondales too!
I was thinking about repainting long tine ago but never done tbh.

Here is one repainted caad 10 with old style decals. Colour looks beter irl i think.

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@snoops There was a limited run of F-Si's in 'Throwback' colourways a few years back that were a tribute to the Cannondale/Volvo MTB team bikes. I always liked the red version.

Someone has done this on a SSevo, but I cant find photos. Looked good IMO.

The Blue 'Tinker Juarez' version with later wordmark:

Best I can find is this grainy pic.

I like the old paint schemes but I’d avoid putting past sponsor logos on (Sacco, Volvo, etc). Bit twee.

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TBH single any colour with downtube & headtube logos will look pretty timeless. I’d just go for whatever colour floats your boat with current downtube wordmark and headtube logo TBH.

I like this one i did earlier in the year:

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