Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Or maybe they have a really bad back, just saying

+1

Maybe gold bartape may work, picking up the gold chain and gold details, but probably not.

Yeah thought a bit of colour would have looked good. It didn't.
Black tape back on.

Would be awesome, thanks!

Ex National Champ's Super-X, for @youramericanlover

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If it's £300 on eBay I'll take it!

I already did! Check your inbox

Cannondale, fuck yeah!!

Though that font is still shit

I am looking for some information about this frame. Strangly there is no modelname on the frame or any sizingdecal. It looks like a XL frame but it fits more like a L size.
I am also curious why there is not a lot of slooping in the design which is more common with these Volvo team bikes.

Strangly there is no modelname on the frame or any sizingdecal.

Does it have a serial number?

Possibly a one off team frame. Given the equipment spec it’s probably F2000 level but as all these shared the same quality of frame just the spec level differed it makes no sense to stick an F number on it if the equipment was team.

It will probably say CAAD3(?) on it somewhere though.

I am also curious why there is not a lot of slooping

It’s for someone very big. Thing with these is that every frame got the same head tube size so there was lots of weird shit going on on the sizes at either end of the spectrum.

Interesting. Thank you.
It is my mate's bike. I will ask him if he will find a serial number.

1999 or so CAAD 3, my guess is a f700. Is the photograph of the actual bike? Size might be stamped on the BB shell. TT slope is entirely size dependant since headshok came only in one steerer length.

my guess is a f700

Unlikely if the cranks are original to the bike but there’s every chance they were fitted later I guess.

The typeface is the same one as this classic logo, although a bit cleaned up, lightened and respaced:

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One of the problems with is it is that the curved letters like 'c' appear undersized. Generally the bowls would extend below the baseline to give the appearance of equal size. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(typography)

It’s similar but has been modernised / butchered - compare the ‘n’ for example.

IIRC the Coda Magic Cranks predate that frame.

Yeah - that’s possibly true. I can’t remember the year they stopped making them.

The fotograph is not one of the actual bike. But he has definitely the same frame.
He took a good look but didn't find any stamped number on the frame.
One more strange thing he has noticed, there are in the front no discbrakemounts. Only in on the rear.
It is hard to tell but this looks like the same as in the picture above.

Might be a team issue frame or a resprayed replica, swapped out headshok forks seem not that uncommon.

Long shot, but has anyone got one a113 cable guide going spare?

Replacement framesets also didn't have a model name afaik - not sure if they did that for team frames too though.

Yes

Feels like a stretch tbh, more like someone said, “ I want it like helvetica but cooler”

Well here's a 1986 logo:

and the new one:

...I'm rather out of practice, but I think they're both variants of Franklin Gothic, or one of its predecessors:

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not quiet £300

That is a lot closer than it looks on the house logo, I sit corrected