Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

@Howard thank you - sounds good although I'm out of town this weekend. Would a week on Sunday be OK?

Are you working at micycle now?

Pink 2.8 is mine. :) Up for sale if anyone is interested. Decided having bought 3 cannondales within 2 months my room is getting too full. Manged to get matching CAAD5 Track and CAAD6 road in Saeco team colours. I am a very happy chappy.

I do the occasional Saturday there to keep me ticking over. Sunday this weekend due to Rapha CX.

PM me when you are free to bring it in.

Newer caad 8 does

Mine is a 2005 frameset, as per this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070430102915/http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/05/ce/model-5RR9D.html
Ie a proper CAAD8, not a new 'riffed' one as Howard puts it!
Also if you click on the geometry link it states that the 54cm does indeed have a sloping tt.

I reckon the red one is a 55 or 56cm. Odd number sizes were available as frame sets only back then.

As for my wheels, they are RR440s (asymmetric rear) on 7900 hubs and CX Ray spokes. Came in at just over 1500g i seem to remember. They ride beautifully, for medium spoke count hamdbuilts anyway. They'll never be like tubs to deep section wheels obviously, but they climb and sprint very well. Nothing bad to say tbh.

Yours is the second version of the CAAD8 - there has been four - which moved towards a semi-compact design that was retained on the CAAD9.

You are right in that the smaller sizes of older CAAD frames sloped. But the slope was pretty difficult to spot without measurement [or shot in front of a garage door! See below]. Yours is pronounced and also features the teardrop profiling of the slightly newer frame. Don't worry though, it's still a vintage CAAD8 :)

Favourite bike i've owned!!!

It has the best paint :)

When i put my new wheels on!

can anyone tell me shed some light on my frame? i have been looking around and ive found that there was a replica saeco caad 7? like this one:

http://www.vintagecannondale.com/sites/default/files/images/IMG_0033.preview.JPG

why does this one have a brushed alu finish and mine is painted? there is also no 'made in usa' or chain stay decals on this one. i take it mine is a cheap version?

The clearcoat aluminium frame was the team replica - I've never actually seen one. There's also a CAAD6 and CAAD7 that shares the same paint as yours and has BB30 and the Time full carbon fork and shipped with the SI chainset.

Yours is certainly a made in USA frame and made from Optimo series aluminium - the top tube will be crazy thin. It might have a full carbon fork - check the steerer - and it might be BB30 converted to BSA in which case it's the top end frameset. If the steerer is alu then it's the mid-range bike, but it's still an awesome ride.

Hooray I'm a member again

Nice oneeeeee!

Whatcha gunna do to it / what stem is that?

stock cannondale/controltech innit?

So would it be stupid to strip and repaint my caad? Fluro orange, black decals - hypothetically of course...

hma is right about the stem, thought I might need a longer one.

It'll be getting SRAM and alloy wheels for winter. Just trying to get my hands on some hollograms

No, do it.

Looks tidy! What size?

Me? 58cm

Ahh ok thanks a lot for the info!! So with that I will take that mine is the mid range frame set - do you know if they originally came as completes or were the frame sets alone? What sort of price would it have been new? Either way I love it and it's such a good ride :D

Cannondale rarely do frame only. There are some high end exceptions like the recent black inc. frames and I think they did a frame only Six13 team. But yours would have been a full bike around the £1500 mark in today's money. Where did you get it?

Ahh ok so not cheap! It's a long story to my hands - originally from the states brought over to the UK by a guy called Audrey (some may know him, tall black and a very deep American voice) in 2005 after being ridden in California for years from new. It was then passed around a group of riders in London (one called Stephon Hinkcson) for I don't know how long and ended up in a market as a frame set ready to meet its maker. Thank the Lord my good friend Briggy saw the frame set and got it straight away for £30. Briggy happens to be friends with both Audrey and Stephon and recognised the bike straight away. He then gave it to me (to keep it back in the group) about a year ago for nothing! It was great building it up and showing Audrey who had it originally (who hadn't seen it for 5+ years!) - hopefully doing the bike justice and enjoying many more miles to come.

Does anybody know Briggy? He is a very familiar face in London. He has his own bike workshop in Camberwell. Also rides fixed wheels with no foot retention

Awesome - a proper community bike. It looks in good shape. Keep in mind that it's an old crit bike that's probably way beyond its expected lifespan. Inspect it before and after every ride etc.

Trufax - Cannondale included a disclaimer with the earlier Optimo frames indicating they were race bikes and not expected to last more than a couple of seasons.

I'm looking for a 2.8 series or early Caad at some point in the next couple of weeks
56 or 58 and probably f+f only.
Let me know if anybody is selling one :)

any ideas where I can get a caadx in size 48cm? most places just have a pre order for the 2015 version.

Might be easier to specify what model you're looking to get...