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Would anyone be interested in the following, and if so what price would you be prepared to offer:
System Six frame, 58cm, great condition- zero "crazing" under the clearcoat at the carbon/alloy junctions which these frames can suffer from
System Six Fork, uncut, great condition
System Six stem, 120mm -5, great condition
All original spacers and so forth for the headset
Super Six Hi-Mod fork, steerer cut down to "slam that stem" height (pictured)
The frame has two small scratches on the head-tube, caused by my cat (James) knocking the bike over when I'd literally just brought it home, other than that it's never once been dropped, crashed, or ridden in the rain (light drizzle only).
It's taken me to the top of Mont Zoncolan and didn't miss a beat.
At the time it was made it won the Giro, and was the stiffest production frame in existence.
In the words of Hillbilly, famous bearded mechanic of Brixton Cycles, "Fuck me that's stiff", when trying the frame.
Cannondale only made these frames for a short period- by hand, in the states, and famously lost money on each one such was the complexity of mechanically locking the carbon tubes into the aluminium rear triangle.
As pictured with Zipp 606 wheels, a power meter and an electronic groupset it weighs in at 6.75kg.
If you switched to SRAM Red, no power meter and lighter wheels you could take this bike down to around 6kg without using any weight limited WW parts.
The frame has been adapted very lightly by having a nut epoxied inside the BB shell so that the switching block for the Di2 cabling can be safely attached, this would have zero impact on running a cable group, and would obviously be very handy if you wanted to run an electronic transmission.
All in all this is an awesome bike, which I've had from basically* new, it would be replaced with a Super Six Evo Di2 frame, if I do sell it.
*I bought it from the first owner who'd not actually ridden it, he'd bought it and then had an operation to repair his shoulder and was selling the bike as he'd not be able to use it for at least a year. I have all original receipts and so forth.