Originally Posted by
RB1-luvr
the early 90s Cannondale 3.0 Crit frames we were given as team sponsorship. They were a good crit axe, but omg anything more than a four corner one mile loop ride on one was torture. They rode horrible. I trained on steel bikes then and begged the team manager to let me ride my RB-1 in the 92-mile state road championship.
Yes, the Cri Series frames rode the brief fad for track-bike-with-brakes-and-gears geometry and then reverted to the conventional road design at about the same time as the Italian marques that had pioneered that geometry. Unfortunately,some people misattributed the hard ride to the aluminum frame rather than to the geometry.