Originally Posted by
ridethecliche
While I love my cannondale, a CAAD9, I have to say that your frame might not be best suited for centuries. Some of those early cannondales were known for their incredible stiffness leading to a really bone jarring ride. A lot of this is over the top roadie speak from people saying the old is bad, but it might have some validity to it. I'm not sure that the stiffness or the 'crack n' fail' issue applies to your frame.
I think a carbon fork would really help soak up the road vibrations on this one.
I can't wait to see the build!
Thats exactly why I was thinking on the carbon fork. This one is from the insanely harsh ride era, but I will put up with that for all I'll be riding it. I'm pretty well set with relaxed, comfortable steel frames. So the C-dale is being built to a very specific purpose. 95% of the time I'll still be on steel.
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