Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

You can eat that bag of dicks after @MechaMorgan has finished with them

Tyre update for summer. This thing always felt like a geared BMX, now it looks more like one.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323752747690

@platypus @yakut

Starting to get really excited about this bike.

Incoming parts:
Sram Red 10-speed
Specialized Power saddle
Vittoria Corsa SC Gumwalls

1 Attachment

That's one hell of a stem length!

Supposed CAAD13:

That looks shit

New Tarmac isnt it

emonda ALR disc; still the best AL disc road frame out there

A Tarmac with welds? Seems a bit retro.

Competing with Allez sprint for crit bike sales? (semi aero)

For sure. Imagine the Allez sprint took a big bite out of CAAD sales in the US.

Yeah that kind of platform will be nibbled from the top (cheap crabons, alu crit stuff), and from the bottom (Optimo / Topstone / CAADX like DIA bikes). People were probably wondering what the CAAD12 is actually useful for.

Yeah, Caad10 used to be the goto 'don't mind crashing' bike.
Mind you, Allez Sprint frames aren't that cheap replace...

that gold frame has mudguard mounts no? new alu synapse?

Still no thru axel. Although maybe it's a good thing because they'd probably come up with their own standard for that too.

although if they've added propper guard mounts on to the CAAD replacement i'm very in

It does have TA, the black background is just hiding them. Why do you check this thread when you seem to actively dislike 'dale?

I like them, they just have flaws.

This.

I have a caad12 disc, i bought it because my Synapse was giving me knee problems (because fit / Geo didn't play nicely), and it solved all that.

Now it's a bit of a difficult bike to fit with the other bikes i own, it's too close to my other road bikes and i can't put guards on it to make it useful for winter.

Just noticed it has triple down tube cage mounts. Isn't this usually to allow a frame bag/other bikepacking gear? Thus not likely on a CAAD?

[edit: I guess it's also useful if you run only one bottle cage in a short race and want it lower?]

Aero bottle placement?

Seat tube is more aero if you're just using one bottle

I read somewhere that it might be the other way round, but it might be the new gen aero bikes with tube shaping to accomodate the downtube bottle.

I prefer a lower bottle position normally if available as it suits smaller frame sizes.