Is Cannondale a Women Brand?
02-20-06, 05:33 PM
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Is Cannondale a Women Brand?
I was really into Cannondale road bikes for a while until I see many women on the streets ride Cannondales. Does Cannondale directly market their bikes to women? For now, I'll stay away from the brand. BTW, I'm a male college student.
02-20-06, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by samsation7
BTW, I'm a male college student.
02-20-06, 05:42 PM
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Perhaps as lot of women buy they because they're great bikes.
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Ah... gotta love the trolls. Where's my LART...
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DIRECTLY MARKETING THEIR BIKES TO WOMEN**********!!!!!!! The horror.
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To the OP, the local Cannondale dealer must know what he's doing and is selling a lot of Bikes; to both men, women, and children.
So go ahead and check them out.
So go ahead and check them out.
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Here's the sum of it:
Canondale is known for making some of the lightest aluminum bikes on earth
Women like light
Canondale is a very well known brand...I know people who don't even bike who know about Canondale. Thus that is the brand many people go after.
Add the two up.
Yes I see lots of Women on C-dales, and I as a guy would own one if I wasn't afraid of breaking it somehow.
Get over yourself...if the bike fits, and the paint isn't something outright feminine, then who cares?
Canondale is known for making some of the lightest aluminum bikes on earth
Women like light
Canondale is a very well known brand...I know people who don't even bike who know about Canondale. Thus that is the brand many people go after.
Add the two up.
Yes I see lots of Women on C-dales, and I as a guy would own one if I wasn't afraid of breaking it somehow.
Get over yourself...if the bike fits, and the paint isn't something outright feminine, then who cares?
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Originally Posted by samsation7
I was really into Cannondale road bikes for a while until I see many women on the streets ride Cannondales. Does Cannondale directly market their bikes to women? For now, I'll stay away from the brand. BTW, I'm a male college student.
02-20-06, 06:37 PM
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Does anyone remember the "Holy crap, I was passed by a girl!" kid? I think it's a trend. I doubt these are real people, but rather just regular forum members creating new user names, so they can write the most infuriating misogynistic posts as to watch the masses go nuts.
Also, while we are on conspiracy theories, has anyone wondered if the US government has been fixing the TdF to keep the media minds off of the war in Iraq?
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I've got a C'dale in the fleet. Toughest one of the bunch too (hardtail, mind you). C'dale is one of the 'big three' of domestic bike production. You sell that many bikes and just about anyone may ride it. Heck, consider Trek for a macro version of this. Getting too whipped up on brand names is the patently stupid thing. Get what serves your needs best.
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Originally Posted by samsation7
For now, I'll stay away from the brand.
BTW, I'm a male college student.
02-20-06, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by samsation7
I was really into Cannondale road bikes for a while until I see many women on the streets ride Cannondales. Does Cannondale directly market their bikes to women? For now, I'll stay away from the brand. BTW, I'm a male college student.
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There are two types of bike riders, those that like cannondales and those that don't. I have had three and have loved them. Two of them I owned as a male college student.
Please go buy a taiwanese bike, newbie troll.
Please go buy a taiwanese bike, newbie troll.
02-20-06, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by PenguinDeD
If you value your life, don't tell Chuck Norris what you just said. He rides a Cannondale.
02-20-06, 09:21 PM
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Into Cannondales? You liked looking at them until you saw women riding them? What if you see women wearing Giro helmets, no Giro for you? Pretty silly. Tinker Juaerz rides one, and he is a man. Mario Cippolini rode one,too. Oh, I ride one myself and I like riding with women. OOOOOhhhh noooo.
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Damiano Cunego and the rest of the Lampre-Caffita team rode Cannondales last year, and HealthNet does now.
And if you didn't see this coming: they're far more manly than you will ever be. Go back to your cave.
P.S. I'm a male college student.
And if you didn't see this coming: they're far more manly than you will ever be. Go back to your cave.
P.S. I'm a male college student.
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Doesn't take much to get into college anymore... I see alot of women on treks around here...
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Yes, cannondale's are for chicks. Them and the sissy flyweight italians are the only ones who don't flex the coke can frames too much.
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I see chicks driving mustangs. Are mustangs girl cars? Cuz if they are, I won't get one cuz I'm a misogynistic idiot who's secretly insecure about his sexuality and openly critical of Brokeback Mountain in front of my equally small-minded friends, but secretly find myself stealing glances at guys packages in the lockerroom shower. BTW, I'm a male hairdresser practicing for the 2010 olympics in figure skating. But I'm straight!
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