Ray Tarto

I picked up a used Cannondale frame and I'm trying to figure out what model it is. I called the SN in to Cannondale and they were able to tell me the size (58) and build date (August 1992) but nothing more.



The features that might be helpful to ID it are:

- R500 sticker on the top tube (Cannondale said with the build date it might have been either a 92 or 93 model)
- Straight (not tapered) down tube, about the same diameter as the top tube
- 1" threaded headtube with color-matched aluminum fork
- Somewhat odd cantilever dropouts in the rear that extend well beyond the intersection of the chainstays and the seatstays
- Chainstays are stamped B1-0302 and 65808920346
- Blue fade paintjob
- Clamp-on front derailleur

If the picture above doesn't work you can see it at:
https://imagesocket.com/view/IMGP3362sc69e.JPG

Any info on this frame or the original bike (I assume it was originally sold as a built up bike) would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Ray

Phantoj

Well (duh) the model is an R500. R500 would place it fairly low in the Cannondale hierarchy, but that doesn't matter since all the bikes used the same frame back then. My wife's 1996 R500 (or is it 400; I can't remember) is Shimano RSX throughout...

the frame is a "Criterium" frame, I think. I'd say it's the earlier Criterium 3.0 frame, rather than the Criterium 2.8 on my wife's bike.

nova

Its exactly what the sticker says it is a r500 I think you already knew that and just wanted to show off your new bike


Welcome to bike forums bty and that is one sharp looking frame you got there love that color

nova

oh yeh the srial number will tell you alot about the manu date not just month and year but also day.
It will be like this
xxx010101xxx First 2 numbers month next 2 day last 2 year. Rest of the numbers (my xxx xxx) are the unit number and number of the bike in that unit. This means if cannondale kept records of time off the assembly line they could tell you the hour minute and maybe even the secound the frame came off the line.

Ray Tarto

Well I figured the R500 part out but I thought that refered to the built up model and not the frame itself (I though all Cannondale frames had a seperate designations like 2.8, Caad 3.0 etc). Unfortunately this frame is a shade small on me so I think I'll be selling it on, but it is a nice piece of work. When I got it it had a full 9 speed 105 group on it which I swapped onto my main frame, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't original.

Thanks for the replies.

Ray

nova

Na 105 sounds right to me. i ride a old cannondale touring bike my self and love it. I just need to get new downtube shifter mounts or old ones that will work lol Much like those ones sittign on that frame

nova

Oh hey what rims did it have on it mine came stock with ariaya i beleive is the name of them. Im suspecting your would have had some model of mavics. Maybe ma series rims

Ray Tarto

92/93 is kind of early for 9 speed isn't it? As for wheels it had Dura-Ace hubs with Mavic Open Pro rims which I assumed weren't original.

Ray

Paulus

It's a normal 3.0 series road frame. It isn't the criterium model as someone suggests above as that model has the seat stays meeting the chain stays right at the very end (not cantilevered like this model).

nova

hmm might be a little early but i doubt it. Hey ray you dont happen to live in northeast ohio by chance do you? Cause if so and you want to part with that frame i might be intrested it takeign it off your hands.

NuclearParanoid

Funny, I have tried a Cannodale bike 2 days ago, and a salesperson told me that it is a R500 (mistake)
In reality that was a Synapse Alloy, maybe that's what you have

nova

Thats no synapse. The synapse has hour glass seat stays not strait. Thats both alloy and carbon synapses.

Ray Tarto

Sorry I'm in So Cal (the idaho of the west, they call it).

Ray

nova

bummer i love that shade of blue lol
With my luck id have you ship it and ups would end up scratching it all to hell. Dont ask but yes ive had that happen a few times.

jbhowat

As all aluminum Cannondales still do.

DieselDan

That's a 3.0 frame. 2.8 frames have the rear brake cable run under the top tube.

Phantoj

I think that's a misleading statement. In the past (I'm thinking circa 2000), the higher-end Cannondale road bikes had a better frame than the lower-end models of the same year.


2001 R5000 (CAAD6)
https://www.cannondale.com/bikes/01/c...del-1RR5K.html

2001 R400 (CAAD3)
https://www.cannondale.com/bikes/01/c...del-1RR4T.html

Now that Cannondale has phased out the lower-end "R-series" road bikes and is giving more high-end attention to the carbon and semi-carbon bikes, the R-series is all CAAD8.

botto 

exactly. those who wrote that c'dale used the same frames for all of their bikes back then were patently wrong.



my '93 2.8

JohnnBGood

What is Cannondale HH B1-0302 17894 195360 7FA5WL . I'm trying to find out , because I want to sell the bike. I want to tell people what model it is.

john Fudala