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As of this posting, and I suppose 20 year old bike or so would make it vintage.
Silk Path 300 hybrid converted to drop bar. Headshock. Shorter stem, tossed the pogo seat post, added C17, Delta front panniers carrier for suspended fork. Conti Speedride 700x42c. Quick attach mudguards (removed). By far the most plush road bike I have. Really enjoying it, especially for what I have in it.... ;--)
Silk Path 300 hybrid converted to drop bar. Headshock. Shorter stem, tossed the pogo seat post, added C17, Delta front panniers carrier for suspended fork. Conti Speedride 700x42c. Quick attach mudguards (removed). By far the most plush road bike I have. Really enjoying it, especially for what I have in it.... ;--)
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Not mine...yet, but I'm thinking about it. Local co-op has it, an early Cannondale tourer with 42" wheelbase and lowrider braze-ons. It's not perfect but it's really cheap. Crack in the weld of a seatpost binder tab can be corrected by filing off the tabs and using a collar instead.
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I must admit that I am not much of a Cannondale fan but I did pick this old touring bike up on the weekend. It is too big for me, but not by much. The bike is in need of some work, but everything does work, as it sits, now, but need to take some pictures of it in its working state...
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Hmm, crown fork plus cantilever brakes...mid-late 80's T1000? If you don't like it, you could probably get decent resale on it.
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1997 Multisport 800 Tangerine tri-bike w/650 wheels
I'm not a fan of the aero bars (feels so unsteady and twitchy) so I moved the barcons to the drops. 18 lb. fun bike w/flawless paint. Up to this point I avoided 650c wheels because I don't want to have multiple sized tires and tubes and I like switching wheel sets around (700C) but this thing was such a steal!
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I must admit that I am not much of a Cannondale fan but I did pick this old touring bike up on the weekend. It is too big for me, but not by much. The bike is in need of some work, but everything does work, as it sits, now, but need to take some pictures of it in its working state...
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As of this posting, and I suppose 20 year old bike or so would make it vintage.
Silk Path 300 hybrid converted to drop bar. Headshock. Shorter stem, tossed the pogo seat post, added C17, Delta front panniers carrier for suspended fork. Conti Speedride 700x42c. Quick attach mudguards (removed). By far the most plush road bike I have. Really enjoying it, especially for what I have in it.... ;--)
Silk Path 300 hybrid converted to drop bar. Headshock. Shorter stem, tossed the pogo seat post, added C17, Delta front panniers carrier for suspended fork. Conti Speedride 700x42c. Quick attach mudguards (removed). By far the most plush road bike I have. Really enjoying it, especially for what I have in it.... ;--)
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Every time I end up selling mine I'll go, that's fine, I have other bikes that are great, too, I don't need a Cannondale again/for a while. Then I walk through the non-profit bike shop's back room area and see several (like, white with thin pink graphics from '88 or so) and go, "I want all the vintage Cannondales [in my size]!]
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C'dales
Every time I end up selling mine I'll go, that's fine, I have other bikes that are great, too, I don't need a Cannondale again/for a while. Then I walk through the non-profit bike shop's back room area and see several (like, white with thin pink graphics from '88 or so) and go, "I want all the vintage Cannondales [in my size]!]
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My current wish is for an upper-end '85-88 SR model (and just the frameset) with the steep geometry (lower-end models got 73°/73.5° HT/ST, which is perfectly fine) in the 63cm size. 63cm frames had the same angles as the taller 66cm ones, so that would be the one I'd like.
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Actually..... I sold my 99 CAAD2 today. Picture was taken just last week.
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Call me an ol' fuddy dud
I only like the old skool triangular framed C'dales with the round over sized down tubes. Simple decals. Signature C'dale.....
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However.... I continued to daily search for bicycles through Craigslist and occasionally a couple other on-line sources. A couple weeks ago I found a like-new CAAD 10, 5 with 105. No... not a vintage... but to me very desirable. I'll miss the Red CAAD2, R500. But I can only ride, or even store, so many bikes.
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1985 Cannondale ST 400
So Doc Cannondale a/k/a @rccardr made me buy this on CL earlier this year,
The bike came to me pretty much stock and I tried to change as little as possible while making it more user friendly for climbing hills and dealing with bad roads. The biggest change is in the gearing. The bike came stock with half step gearing (50/45, 13-34 freewheel). I went with a compact crank (really a deore triple that I'm using as a compact) and a wide ranging freewheel to give me cross over gearing (that's a lot easier for me to understand than half step gearing, (50-34, 12-30 7 speed freewheel). I swapped out the bar and stem as the bike came with a crummy short stem (like 9 cm) and narrow bars. I went with aero brake levers. I like them better than old school levers and, more importantly, they have a quick release. I like a quick release both in the caliper and the brake lever as that lets me get a wheel with a 700 x 32c tire on and off easily. I did swap out the 27 inch wheels for 700c. The ones I had on hand were also built around shimano 600 hubs but have araya rims which frankly I like better than the rigida 13/20 rims that came stock. The shimano 600 calipers reach the 700c wheels but just barely up front. And I went with new kool stop brake pads plus gatorskin 700 x 32 tires.
1985 Cannondale ST 400
The bike came to me pretty much stock and I tried to change as little as possible while making it more user friendly for climbing hills and dealing with bad roads. The biggest change is in the gearing. The bike came stock with half step gearing (50/45, 13-34 freewheel). I went with a compact crank (really a deore triple that I'm using as a compact) and a wide ranging freewheel to give me cross over gearing (that's a lot easier for me to understand than half step gearing, (50-34, 12-30 7 speed freewheel). I swapped out the bar and stem as the bike came with a crummy short stem (like 9 cm) and narrow bars. I went with aero brake levers. I like them better than old school levers and, more importantly, they have a quick release. I like a quick release both in the caliper and the brake lever as that lets me get a wheel with a 700 x 32c tire on and off easily. I did swap out the 27 inch wheels for 700c. The ones I had on hand were also built around shimano 600 hubs but have araya rims which frankly I like better than the rigida 13/20 rims that came stock. The shimano 600 calipers reach the 700c wheels but just barely up front. And I went with new kool stop brake pads plus gatorskin 700 x 32 tires.
1985 Cannondale ST 400
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So Doc Cannondale a/k/a @rccardr made me buy this on CL earlier this year...
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Miguel- are you definitely going to bring that ST to the Dare in August? If so, I' ll bring mine and we can compare notes.
Really like the parts combo you used- are those Belleri Rando bars?
Really like the parts combo you used- are those Belleri Rando bars?
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The bars are nitto randonneur which I picked up from the c&v for sale forum.
I tried to sink as little money into this project as possible and so I tried to use as many of the original parts as possible and parts on hand.
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here's my newest addition, 2000 'afterburner' R600, sweet!
I remember seeing a cannondale for the first time when i was a kid and falling in love with the big boned tubes!
I remember seeing a cannondale for the first time when i was a kid and falling in love with the big boned tubes!
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My 1985 Cannondale SM600.
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