Originally Posted by
demoncyclist
You're really going to ***** about not being able to get a part for a bike that they haven't used in ages???
Mais oui -- I thought that *****ing was one of our inalienable rights.
And I'd be more sympathetic of Cannondale's situation but for the fact that it holds the patent on the cable guide (U.S. Patent No. 4733835, which is an interesting read), and used it on all of their bikes for most of the first 10-12 years of production.
On the other hand, as others have noted, time marches on. And the original Cannondale went under in 2003 -- present day Cannondale is part of a conglomerate that distributes Chinese-made bicycles under a variety of historic names.
Demon, thanks for the advice on the impossibility of brazing. I suppose that an alternative cable guide could be riveted on, rather than glued?