2007 Cannondale SystemSix Team Si

hah- I was saying to Fenella the other day that I cannot seem to take a level photograph.

Thanks for doing that.

Based in stoke newington but often found in archway/new cross

After some rigorous checking:

• It's not a sudden dip
  
• The rim is ~1mm closer to the right hand side of the bike at the valve than it is opposite the valve
  
  

Should I not be able to feel that?

Definitely not trying to freak you out, nor am I an expert on expensive carbon BUT isn't deep carbon rims supposed to be really stiff. And if so, wouldn't there have to be something quite wrong with the spoketension if the wheel is out of true.

I've heard stories of people having trouble truing wheels with B43 rims and the like because those kind of rims are very stiff and don't show their "out of trueness" very well. They then ended up with spoketension not being very equal and therefore a weaker wheel.

I suggest checking the tone of the spokes individually just to check weather there are a couple which are way of.

I'll hand it over to a pro, see what they say.

And what he said was that a couple of spokes were very loose, and that one spoke had a slight kink in it- so I'll get that one replaced.

The wheel is now true, I'll report back on the braking when I can ride a bike again.

Roymund- you are welcome to come and have a go if you would like?

Just promise to come back.

to who you took the wheel?

Murtle's wheel works.

Oli took the wheel round to Arup for me.

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.

fiddy dorrar

tree fiddy

you're selling this? Now that you've done all this to it?!!

Keep it, ride it, stop thinking too much Neil. It's fucking beautiful.

It's because there's nothing left to upgrade on it. Maybe you should try and make it as heavy as possible using only standard parts?

What sort of price?

What happens if the new one doesn't ride as nice? ( it can happen ) You'd be massively pissed off! Especially after all the work you've put in.

You know the next model after the evo's going to be better anyway! ;-)

This is probably only a fishing expedition- I'm genuinely interested in what people think the frame (and additional fork) would be worth.

I've seen these frames go for ~£500 on eBay, for example, with no real provenance.

Probably shouldn't ask but; how tall are you Neil?

187cm

Shawty

So this has all just been an elaborate marketing tactic.

Classifieds>>>>>>

hmmmmm

The issue is, this frame has seen too much forum time already - and Dammit has ridden it much more than I'm likely to!

I told you months ago you'd upgrade to a Super Six

I may surprise you yet. Or I may do nothing and ride this for the next ten years.