Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

The liquidgas colourway is one of my all time favourites

I find it funny how some people still look down on Cannondales, you'd think they were living in a pre-lemond era.
Someone once said on a club run "Handmade in USA" (reading my seat stays)... "what, and that's something to boast about?".
Bastards the lot of them!

This mine - needs a sexier crank set.

have a couple love them to bits ( not literally ) haven't had any failures in 12 years of riding them

here's me at the start of my first rolling to the stones venture on the very shy and secretive blue CAAD3 it very rarely gets brought out for rides under 100 miles and can mostly be found on the continent eating up the miles on hot black tarmac
then my pride and joy ex Mario Cippolini Olympic 2000 bike built for him to compete in the time trial lovely areo / teardrop tubing i don't know if cannondale used columbus air or made their own tubing
have met a few cannondale specialists who say they've never seen another bike like this one

http://www.kissenasports.com/for_sale.htm
can be seen in my avatar

great bikes top thread would buy / read again

Sell me the Cipo frame.

the day i die the forum will auction it for charidy
you will have your chance then

My 20 odd year old Cannondale 3.0 is still being ridden daily, having passed through the hands of 4 different owners - gawd love it

Would love another crack at a 'Dale once my cheap Chinese carbon infatuation passes

the day i die the forum will auction it for charidy
you will have your chance then

Starts plotting

Can I join? I have a stable full:

CAADX Cross race rig and winter trainer / commuter / tourer.

My tiny parts-bin F5 on a glorious day at Peaslake

2010 BB30 CAAD9 awaiting a build for the 'summer'.

That Peaslake photo makes me want to be there with my CX bike right now.

I'm looking to do more technical stuff on my crosser so next time I head down there I'll give you a shout.

I've never really had an appreciation for 'dale road bikes, probably stemming from my hatred of their mtb range, which stems directly from my hatred of your stereotypical 'dale/yeti rider/owner.
Saying that I used to ride with a norwegian bloke who was the closest I've known to a machine. Used to ride some mid 90s single pivot 'dale XC machine (almost a softtail style), if he was choosing the route he'd invariably challenge us to ride backwards up the DH course, and he'd invariably make it with no dabs and immediately return to the bottom for another go.....

Hi all, been riding this CAAD4 since 2002. This pic's a couple of years old, but the setup is still about the same. Please excuse the stem position & lack of slamming. Hopefully this will be out on the roads of North Norfolk by the end of June.

I have weeded the area since, but the pebbledash sadly remains :(

picked up my third cannondale last week from a forumeneger nice condition caad3 with a few parts
now where are those scapula cranks forks and seatpost

thinking about a weight weenies project with this one. caad3's are very light indeed. the above with some average parts is only 3 odd kilo's
might make a superlight singlespeed. and SSSS rather than a WW

A thread for Crack'n'fails already exists:

https://www.lfgss.com/thread50947.html

Started by the man, the myth, the legend that it (was) Maxington Crowe.

where is mergatron when you need him
merge with http://www.lfgss.com/thread50947-2.html ?

mergatron cooey where are you ?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread86198.html

My 3 series criterium which i bought in 1989. Its had 3 resprays (last one with the wrong transfers) all sorts of different bits and i road raced on it for over 10 years. Still one of my favourite bikes. Super stiff, super harsh. I switched from mountain biking to road in the late 80s and everyone took the piss when i bought the Cannondale, it was all skinny steel at the time. Within 5 years fat ally frames were everywhere. They were way ahead of their time.

fat ally
the reason why i went cannondale back in 1999

love those chunky tubes

My old CAAD5 track bike, should've kept it.

Merged crank'n'fail..

^^pron

wow some of the early ally CAAD's are lighter than the current ultra light weight carbon frames
CAAD7 seems to win followed by CAAD4

yes i'm talking to you dammit

http://weightweenies.starbike.com/listings/components.php?type=roadframes

I want either a CAAD9 or a Six13. Six13 is meant to be fairly heavy I think.