Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

lolz

That remind me of the OG of 'all-road';

Compact geo, wider tyres, disc brakes, now front boing.........before you know it we'll be wearing motorbike gear and throwing ourselves down mountains on our bloody bikes!

My eyes, my eyes... it's hideous!

(nice cranks, tho)

I think I will be when it's stripped, yeah. It's a 54 irrc but I'll have to check.

My brief foray into the club. Headset is stiff though and can't see how the cartridge bearings could be replaced...complete mish mash of parts for cruising around town.

1 Attachment

Hello all

I'm looking about to see if anyone is selling a 58 to 60cm cannondale road bike. I've posted in wanted too but I thought I'd post here in the cannondale thread.

Cheers.

I've got a 58 caad8 for sale, if you're looking for something at the cheaper end of the 'dale scale. It's in Bristol but can deliver it to London this weekend. PM me if you're interested

Pink CAAD 5 R3000Si 58cm?

1 Attachment

That Slate thing is so ugly and yet somehow so hot right now

Do want, don't need. Hope it isn't too expensive...

i'm curious about the final versions (they announced 3) and the price tag.
it will come with 650b wheels/42 tires.

I'm expecting about £1700 and up. There will be a version with FSA cranks and basic wheels. Maybe cable pull brakes. Top end will get you SISL2 cranks and a spider ring with 1*11 with some posh hoops. Expect versions with SI cranks, hydraulics and Stans Flow / Crest rims to go over £2000.

Lefty "Oliver" chasis is crabon. Cheap it will not be.

it will come with 650b wheels/42 tires.

This is the future and (with loads of clearance) good for the uk. They can keep the silly fork though.

They can keep the silly fork though

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the UK given there's no ecosystem to support it. Your LBS will not, for example, be easily able to remove the fork (STRUT!) and send it TF after its alloted 40 odd hours between service interval, unless they are a Cannondale specialist. Which they won't be.

I still want one

SI cranks are made by FSA also.

Some of the older Carbon SI cranks were, yes. They were a little bit shit. The original SI cranks were not, the current SISL2 cranks are not. I don't know who makes the current forged SI crank, it may be FSA.

http://eliflap.it/2015/06/21/cannondale-2016/

Wish they would give the SSE frame the option of Di2 or mechanical like others do (and current CAAD10), instead of separate frames:

Maybe the down tube stops are removable and it has the little gap for the wire in the hole in the head tube? Also not keen on new CAAD Black & Chrome paint.

Is that seriously it? 40hrs?

80 quid, in London, with one hour to go?!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cannondale-CAAD-6-Team-Saeco-Road-Bike-Aluminium-FrameCarbon-Forks-Black-58cm-/201370152376

Lefty 2.0 manual recommends damper inspection / service every 100 hours, but then tells you to halve it if you are racing on it (?)

To be fair, most forks have a similar service interval, trouble is lefty and headshok are more sensitive to stuff kind-of-not-quite-working-right than Rockshox, Fox etc.

Edit - actually they reckon 50 hours regardless.

2016 bikes in case anyone is curious. I need that orange FSi in my life.

CAAD12 eh? Wonder what happened to the 11.

Also Fatties. Just a year or two late.

that orange FSi

< notbad.jpeg >

I see they've jumped on the 27.5+ bandwagon.

Higher stack than CAAD10 .. and no women's CAAD12. Late to the party after AWOL on touring bikes. Looks like they just focused on CAAD12 and Slate. Why aren't they getting the message on BB30?

Most meh of big 3 .. Specialized, Trek and Dale.

Most meh of big 3 .. Specialized, Trek and Dale.

Isn't Giant still the biggest bike manufacturer* :-/

*not keeping up to date anymore