No more Caad9 after 2010?
well said!
07-10-09, 07:49 AM
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1. For the forseeable future, the CAAD9 will continue to be made in Bedford. There will be a range of bikes all the way up to BB30 with Dura Ace.
2. They are bringing back the CAAD8 which will give them a lower price point.
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They will have an extremely stong line for the next season. Other manufacturers have adjusted to what they did last year with the 6 at $1,700 and this will only do more to make the market adjust.
All is well.
Out.
2. They are bringing back the CAAD8 which will give them a lower price point.
Facts can be your friend. You go further in life using them.
They will have an extremely stong line for the next season. Other manufacturers have adjusted to what they did last year with the 6 at $1,700 and this will only do more to make the market adjust.
All is well.
Out.
Cannondale sold something like ten times as many '09 CAAD9s as they had expected, and shops told them that customers were clamoring for a BB30 CAAD9, and were buying CAAD9 frames to hang high-end parts off of (when Cannondale had relegated it to entry-level). Cannondale really stepped it up for '10 and made BB30 standard for the 9, and a choice between Rival and Dura Ace groups. It's going to be the best value in racing bikes, bar none. My shop expects to sell hundreds of these, especially the Rival-equipped ones.
It would be odd of Cannondale to discontinue the CAAD9 just as they made a big deal of rolling out two new high-zoot lines and made BB30 standard. If anything, there's going to be a CAAD10 (or X), with a few stiffer/lighter things going on, although I doubt that they're investing much in aluminum road bike design these days, even though I think we're about to see a resurgence in interested in high-end alloy frames.
The CAAD8 will occupy the slot that the 2009 CAAD9 did, being spec'ed with Tiagra or 105. It will be made overseas.
07-10-09, 08:56 AM
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oh, and Dorel is changeing the name to Canadale.
07-10-09, 09:23 AM
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This will help out the resale on all of the older CAAD8's now since it is no longer "discontinued" which is nice.
07-10-09, 09:23 AM
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1. For the forseeable future, the CAAD9 will continue to be made in Bedford. There will be a range of bikes all the way up to BB30 with Dura Ace.
2. They are bringing back the CAAD8 which will give them a lower price point.
Facts can be your friend. You go further in life using them.
2. They are bringing back the CAAD8 which will give them a lower price point.
Facts can be your friend. You go further in life using them.
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07-10-09, 09:48 AM
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/Facepalm.
Brainfart moment.
I meant to say that they've been welding the frames for so long that they know how to do it. Regardless, it's a moot point since the 9's are going to be made in the US.
Sorry, that was a stupid thing to say. I've been staring at the welds on my 9 wondering how I forgot they were there lol...
Brainfart moment.
I meant to say that they've been welding the frames for so long that they know how to do it. Regardless, it's a moot point since the 9's are going to be made in the US.
Sorry, that was a stupid thing to say. I've been staring at the welds on my 9 wondering how I forgot they were there lol...
