Originally Posted by Fleabiscuit

Yep, you beat me to it. Cannondale bikes are officially cookie-cutter Dorel specials, just like the rest of the junk Dorel puts out. I'm sure the sweatshop cranking them out has lots of practice making Wal Mart bikes. CAAD10 is the brainchild of their marketing department working closely with their Chinese plant. A sad end of an era.

"This bike numba 10!"

Originally Posted by merlinextraligh

There's a pretty good argument to be made that leaving the weld beads alone, and not grinding them smooth causes attention to detail.

If you grind and fill welds, you can make a bad weld look good.

If you leave the weld beads alone, it will expose a crap weld.

Co-Motion for example doesn't grind the welds on their aluminum bikes, and they are known for the quality of their welding.

So not grinding the welds, may not be as pleasing to your eye, but it may also make for a better frame.

Originally Posted by JeffS

Agreed.

I can somewhat understand the people who don't care about country of origin, but these boards seem to be full of people who seem to revel in production being moved overseas.

First, I don't believe they saved 200g, unless they took most of it out of the fork. If they did though, I suspect you will be seeing a lot of failures in the coming years.