Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

It's always nice to post pics of your bikes to forums, isn't it? Here's my '93 Cannondale Track:

^^ First off I'm not in a place to say what will work for you. But, I am totally against the 'slam the stem' purely on aesthetic grounds. It needs to be right for you if your going to use the bike as intended.

Anyway, yes you could swap stems about to adjust the height and reach slightly .. http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/stem.php .. also keeping 20mm, even if you put the spacer on top of the stem, allows for some movement 15mm with a 5mm above the stem .. Obviously a bike fit is the way forwards but being a student that will be a luxury?

In your position I'd look in the ads / eBay and buy some cheap stems (any old crap) of different angles and lengths around what you have and different size spacers. Then start swapping them in and out, one change at a time, to see if you can find the sweetest spot before you do anything to the steerer or buy a nice stem. Remember it may look w**k and it will take you a while to do this with a long enough ride between changes but you can pile spacers on top and under the stem to make the right height while you play. And at the end you can probably dump the stems back into ads / eBay for roughly what you paid.

Oh and to weigh it roughly weigh yourself on a set of bathroom scales or the like and then weigh yourself holding the bike .. Difference is bike weight obviously.

I put the Cinelli Vai (110mm) on because when I bought it the dude was rocking a 130 and it was too long. A bike fit would indeed be unfeasible, so all I have is my incredibly limited knowledge of bike fitting. I will try a 90 (still 6 deg) and take the remaining spacers from underneath the stem and see how I get on with that.

Its not like the position will be all that different to my old bike. The drop was fairly aggressive on that too, and I've never ridden anything else of the road geometry variety barring my dad's tiny Giant (woi)

Sort your saddle position first (fore and aft), then the reach.

Go by feel, if you find your hand moving away from the hood after a while, put shorter stem on.

etc.

This is my 1990 SR900. Srry bout the shit pick.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/bf9f5bc6d98d603020637de00fc06965/tumblr_mrj6hwbouE1sqkqhxo1_1280.jpg

^ good paint. Who did it?

CAAD 10 track bon0r alert

Obligatory "are those wheels the right way round" comment.

Sort your saddle position first (fore and aft), then the reach.

Go by feel, if you find your hand moving away from the hood after a while, put shorter stem on.

etc.

Saddle position is fine, am very comfortable - if anything I may raise the nose a couple of mm. It's just a case of sorting the reach now. Forks will come later down the line I think

CAAD 10 track bon0r alert

i would sell a kidney for this

i would sell a kidney for this
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Just researched the price of Kidneys, you could buy a few bikes for a single kidney……group kidney sales?

i would sell a kidney for this

Not your Surly?

surly would be work horse

caad10 track would be sub 6 kilo super light sweet HHSB

or just sell my caad8

P.s. Just coaxed Lee in ordering the Genesis yesterday.

Forgot about the render from pinkbike last year. Make this please.

http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p6pb10057489/p5pb10057489.jpg

I half want an exact geo match for my SuperSix as a track bike, but half don't as it's sewwww small.

Would be sweet though. Then just need an exact geo matched cross bike...

I know I'm preaching to the converted in this thread but what are peoples opinion of this: http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/m7b0s6p4332/CANNONDALE-SYNAPSE-ALLOY-105-2012
Looking for a road bike at the moment and this is coming top of the list but also have been eyeing up the Genesis Equilibrium and CDF.

Closer to the Equilibrium than the CdF, CdF is a CX bike (equal Cannondale would be the CAADX).

Synapse have taller headtube and slightly shorter reach for the size.

Test ride them both and see which one you like the most.

That's the old nodder synapse no?

Stolen?
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/151234634840?nav=SEARCH

Wonder if it was one of the ones nicked from the bike show?

That's the old nodder synapse no?

The alu AFAIK is the same geometry with the exception of the carbon.

I'd check the geo charts but I can't find them. Lame.

Anyway, nodder alu Synapse >>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks for the advice Ed.