Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Yeah it’s the rigid Lefty with built in lights

Pointless but there we go.

A rigid lefty?

Huh, why.... 0_0

Was thinking of swapping my fixed every day bike for an alfine functional bike.

You'll need to watch this then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEXjpXtw4g

230k views...not bad...

Mono blades are more aero

But yeah. Why.

Punctures on hub geared bikes are definitely more hassle...maybe Cannondale should do a lefty rear hub gear frame. Lefty front lefty back, no need to every take off the wheel to fix a flat!

:PPPPP

It was @Howard 's video that inspired me to get a Rohloff ;-)

you mean like this one? :)

https://www.localbiketrader.com/bike-ad-18689

Reckon it would take a child seat?

Only way to try it, look like the seat tube may have enough room to fit a bracket, and the rack to my knowledge are slim enough to run a seatpost mounted childseat.

Since Evans offer free accessories fitting on their bike, it's a good way of finding out whether it's fit or not, and if it doesn't, can always ask for refund.

Punctures on hub geared bikes are definitely more hassle.

Nah, the Cannondale have sliding drop out, meaning just undo bolt and drop wheel out, unhook the cable from the internal gear hubs is also easy, might not even need to do that.

Nothing like those dutch bike that required undoing every single bolt known to mankind just to access the inner tube (which is why these double ended inner tube were invented!)

That is genius

I assure you it is a pile of frozen sausages.

I grew up on Dutch hub geared bikes.

Joyful puncture stories... But I rarely had any, while in belfast it's Kevlar tyres or one a week. So much glass...

Hah it exists... But limited edition :(

Thanks Ed.

do these work? do you get strange lumps?

fly bikes used to make a similar one called the cobra. bmx only

Advice required please: bought a carbon synapse from Evans just over a year ago after my first ever bike fit type thing. Cycled home on a 56 and never really gelled with it.
Yup, finally admitted it’s too small.
Currently at the point of selling and buying a 58 but wondering if simply buying a longer post is an easier option.
Oe carbon 25.4 350 currently fitted, 400 would definitely be long enough, 380 probably long enough.
A quick google search hasn’t thrown up much, wondering if the collective super brain aka lfgss had any suggestions?

Thomson, FSA and a few others make 25.4 posts. Maybe theirs are long enough

Longer post is easier, but a bike that fit you is a better outcome (especially if you end up having to fit a longer stem on).

Thomson post in 25.4 are 330mm.
I had a similar issue a few years back.
Thankfully 330mm did it for me :)

Other choices where FSA who made a good range of odd sizes and Easton used to do some EA50/70 due to frame tubing changes good 25.4 posts are getting harder to find as a lot of frames use 30+mm seat tube's.
I never looked into carbon posts.

From experince....... i ran a 330 on a mountain bike, super compact frame, needed a long post, not reccomended in 25.4 as it will be flexy. If you need that much post showing on a road bike probs best to go larger frame size.

Has anyone got a Cannondale Slate? Any good?

Ridden one, they're excellent fun, but ultimately neither here nor there (small clearance for proper off road, and not exactly as lighting quick as a proper road bike).

Cant help but think the new Synapse and the SuperX SE has kinda eaten its lunch, too.

Thanks, given the very poor road surface where I live and possibility of a secondhand one at an extremely competitive price it's probably worth a go

Yeah, you see a lot of 2nd hand Slates for sale
Makes you think