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My caad9 at the end of the Dorset dash this summer just gone, please excuse friends Bianchi.

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Does anyone know if the 2014 CAAD10 will come as a fully built bike in the nice matt black colour? The only ones I've seen have a kind of liquigas style white, black and green.

It will in the states:
http://www.cannondale.com/catalog/product/view/id/30980/s/caad10-black-inc/category/916/
with Red as above, or with Ultegra (which is the 2012 Dura Ace frame- same as I have potentially for sales (fully built too))
http://www.cannondale.com/catalog/product/view/id/31846/s/caad10-3-ultegra/category/916/

But in the UK apparently we're getting Ultegra in black and white:
http://www.cannondale.com/gbr/2013/bikes/road/elite-road/caad10/caad10-3-ultegra-compact-crankset-28418
Or 105 in green and blue:
http://www.cannondale.com/gbr/2013/bikes/road/elite-road/caad10/caad10-5-105-compact-crankset-28419

The green and blue is horrific in the metal.

You can buy the bbq black frame though separately.

Not cheap, mind.

instagram pic of mine

very nice

Thanks Bonor

Shoddy pic of mine. Will take better pics with next week.

...rides perfect. my best bike so far.

Have frameset, headset and cranks of the above in a 55.5cm size, some crazing as expected, solid and lovely ride.
£375 picked up at end of next week from London.

Plus wheelset (shimano c24) as seen on bike: £525.

I should buy this and just move all the parts onto my System Six frame, then sell the Six13.

You should have, yes... gone now.

If you have a spare five grand...

CAAD10 Build

Hey dudes

My CAAD7 - first road bike so nothing to compare it to, but I absolutely love it. After a 17deg stem the spacers will go and the steerer will be cut, then deep Chinese carbon is on the cards for the summer

My knowledge is gappy to say the least, but I have a thing for Dales, so I think I will be keeping this and adding/changing as I go. Any pointers or obviously weak areas?

Thanks :)

My caad9 at the end of the Dorset dash this summer just gone, please excuse friends Bianchi.

Bianchi is taking no prisoners with that paint job.

Ollie - the CAAD7 Alu/carbon fork is a boat anchor. Trouble is nothing else will match the Saeco paint. There is a time carbon fork from the team issue bb30 CAAD7 which will match, but hens teeth and all that.

If you have a spare five grand...

Not quite sure how they got that to £5k without a power meter and SI/SL cranks.

Or Di2. But with Ultegra.

A fool and his money and all that.

ENVE wheels, bars, stem and seatpost I suspect.

Ollie - the CAAD7 Alu/carbon fork is a boat anchor. Trouble is nothing else will match the Saeco paint. There is a time carbon fork from the team issue bb30 CAAD7 which will match, but hens teeth and all that.

Thanks man. This is the sort of thing I just wouldn't have any idea about - is there a particular fork that most switched to, or are there a handful of replacements that would suit? I'll enquire about having them sprayed to match the frame so not too much of an issue if they're an odd colour

Have a look back though the thread - there's a bit about CAAD9 forks. I think the 7 and 9 use the same rake and a-c

After some very brief research it seems many of the alternative forks are longer than 362mm, will the softening in handling be noticeable with a 5/10mm increase in A2C? Or should I look to change the rake to compensate?

Couldn't make a call on that. Maybe pop it in the AQA thread.

Qwerty seem to have the Premium Slice fork available. Not the lightest though.

ENVE wheels, bars, stem and seatpost I suspect.

This! Total hipster build .. Bar and stem are worth more then the group set, add zero function to the build and are heavier then a reasonable sensible and cheaper alloy equivalent! Rant over ..

Nice solid build Ollie, the Saeco colours are my favourite schemes .. I built a CAAD 6 Saeco, which I had to sell as it was too small but with nothing too drastic on it I managed 6.8, so there's some serious potential even though it's not a state of the art frame. Only thing I'd suggest is to be really sure you can ride in the drops with a 17deg stem without spacers before cutting the steerer. Function is greater the form .. "internet bike fit etc"

Qwerty seem to have the Premium Slice fork available. Not the lightest though.

For that money I'd definitely want much lighter I think - am a student so ultimately I have to get stuff right first time because I can't afford to keep changing it

Nice solid build Ollie, the Saeco colours are my favourite schemes .. I built a CAAD 6 Saeco, which I had to sell as it was too small but with nothing too drastic on it I managed 6.8, so there's some serious potential even though it's not a state of the art frame. Only thing I'd suggest is to be really sure you can ride in the drops with a 17deg stem without spacers before cutting the steerer. Function is greater the form .. "internet bike fit etc"

Thanks. Yeah I haven't had it weighed - wouldn't know how to go about it - but it would be interesting to see how much it loses. I won't be a weight weenie by any measure, but I do very much like the lightness of it, it's something I've never had in a bike before.

Ah yeah I was dreading somebody confirming the fit doubt I already had. I'm 21 and this is my first road bike, so I think I just need to get the 'silly' build out of the way first. I don't ride particularly long distances (not gone beyond 40k yet) as I have much more fun thundering around town, so my thinking was to keep maybe a 20mm spacer, cut the rest, and just keep the 6 degree stem I've got if I want to do longer rides? Or is it not that simple?