Check out the "For Trade" Thread here in Road Bikes. I have a Caad8 which is being moved out of my rotation.

What I'm using: FSA K-Wing Compact Bar with Bontrager Race XXX Lite OS Stem.
I can't tell you you'll like it, but I can tell you it transformed my CAAD9's ride.
It feels great, it is a super comfortable combo without making me feel alienated from the road.

http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1297291011

http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1297290914

I remember the first time I got in a long ride on my CAAD9.
I felt like that is what road cycling is meant to be.
I grew as a rider and was able to put on more miles at a faster pace.
Not only that, it's handling was way better than my previous bike (as mentioned before, a Trek 1.5).

A recent pickup...


http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4765/cannonlarge3.jpg

weird to see that out of DC

Ah -- I wouldn't have even looked if it weren't for your post.

NCVC's website:
http://www.ncvc.net/default.aspx

Of course, there's also DC Velo:
http://www.dcvelo.com/

I don't know what each group is like, so they seem kinda like a People's Front of Judea/Judean People's Front sort of thing. ;)
http://www.realityloop.net/blog/Thes...94/Front_3.jpg

Previous owner lived there and was a part of NCVC for several years before coming to the west coast. Frame is currently up on the 'bay.

color doesnt matter too much. funny you mention that because I picked up a ritchey stem and hanldebar yesterday. still waiting for the frameset. I was going to part out my caad9 but im just going to part out my steel bike.

nice setup ! my caad9 has the original cannondale stem and ritchey bars. i like the ritchey bars so i ended up with another ritchey bar and stem. thanks for the input though

Thanks. :thumb:

Yeah. I haven't even gotten to take it for a long ride yet. I just took it out for a quick ride because it was evening and getting dark. so i went down to the spring water corridor. which is a bike/jogging path thats roughly 25-30miles long, and follows a creek. nice smooth pavement two lanes wide. No motor vehicle traffic of course.

I got on and was messing around trying out all my gears because i had just had the LBS adjust the deraillieurs. After i had ridden say 1/4 on the path. I glance over my shoulder, and to my surprise another cyclist is about to pass me, kind of a good thing i checked, as i was drifting into the "passing" lane. So he passed me and of course. The first thing i thought was: I gotta keep pace with this guy and see what kind of shape i'm in. I've been off any kind of ride bike for around 4 months. still been riding my DH MTB at the local butte. which is a 40lb beast of a bike.

So i just held pace with him for a ways. then we come to an intersection that crosses a road. He makes the gap between the traffic and i miss it. so i slow down and wait for traffic to allow me to go. I cross and begin accelerating to catch back up to the fellow cyclist. Which wasn't to hard, but he wasn't really trying to push it at that point, as he was getting a drink off his water bottle. He then glanced bank and noticed i wasn't rushing past him. so I'd assume he was figuring i was just some guy one his new road bike, feeling like Lance Armstrong, Lol.

He slowly began increasing his pace, probably thinking he was going to drop me without any issue. The only reason i say this, is because he would glance back and noticeably increase his pace. I think we probably got up to about 20-22mph and held steady at that for say 2-2 1/2 miles. Then i suddenly notice his speed diminish to say 18-20mph?. so i slowly begin passing him. Do the usual check to see what kind of bike he was riding, Fuji. I say the Usual hey, hows it goin. He says good and the same in return was asked to me. I say good, and accelerate past him and hang off to the left of the path to see if he wants to. I don't know race a little? i'm not sure what my speed was after i passed him but i would guess 25mph for the last mile of pathway before it reaches another road crossing. When i got here i decided i was turning around and going home before i threw up my dinner i had just eatin 15 mins prior to this whole ordeal. so he rolls up along side me and says. nice pace. I say thanks, its been awhile. At the same time i'm turning around to go back home. So i yell out "have a good one" and again get the same in return.

Fun little experience and it was not negative in anyway. i appreciated having someone to Coax me into pushing it a little when i had expected to just do a short leasure ride to try out the new bike. Seemed like he enjoyed having a little challenge as well. So it was a good time had by all.

Cool story Bro's?:D

Cool story bro.

I call that a "wolf pack mentality".

When I see someone ahead of me, I pick up my pace to keep up with them, but will hang back a good 50 feet so that they don't feel like I'm right on their arse. If they keep a good pace, I don't try to pass them. I use them to motivate me. I just want to run with the pack.

The dumbest thing I did was to crank it up to catch up with these two hardcore riders that blew by me as I was about to come to a rest stop. I opened up and gave everything I had to keep a steady 20+mph pace with these guys and I managed to keep up with them for a couple of miles until they hung a left at a light. They turned to see that the guy they passed on a bike that probably cost me 1/10th of what their rigs cost them was right up there with them, gave me a smile and a nod. I nodded and smiled and after another mile, reached my destination where I collapsed!

That shi! is so cool.

When my riding bud and I get a chance to ride, he definitely takes me to the next level. When I think about slowing down, the thought immediately comes to mind "what will he think of me if I slack?" He races. When I ride with him, I get a hard workout, but I never fall behind and I do things I normally wouldn't. The biggest compliment he gave me was a big "thanks" for riding with him, that it pushes him too.

Which reminds me...I'm online too much. I need to be riding.

Is winter over yet?

Grrrr!

Cool story bro.

I do the exact same thing....every once in a while I'll decide to make a pass if there pace is in the 17-18 range, and then I feel I must keep in front at all costs. I ride allot of hills in Va. and this past december was on A1A in Ft. Lauderdale heading north pacing two riders at about 19mph and holding back about 100 feet. This went on for about 5 miles. I decided I would cruise on past them and ramped it up to about 22-23. I never looked back and never slowed down, figuring I'd left them behind. After another 5 miles I took a casual look behind me and there they were. Not dropped, and looking fresh as a daisy. Sped up a little more, figuring my hill riding in Va. would help me at least stay ahead of these flatland riders. About a minute later they passed me giving me that upward nod of the head and little smile....Everything I had, and dropped like a bad penny...Was still fun, and a way better workout than I would have had..:thumb:

I finally in the financial position to make my CAAD purchase and now i have the burning question, (no I have not gotten to test ride either) is going with SRAM worth the extra couple hundred dollars? Or should i put that money not spent toward a wheel set or something of the sort

You gotta be tenacious like Herpes!

:lol:

You "took a pull", so to speak. You got in front and they got into your draft, saving themselves energy while you punched a hole through the wind.

That is, if they stayed close enough. ;)

Not really a bad thing as long as everyone knows what they're doing. Cyclists riding together will often take turns at the front.

I was, but gas tank went to "E"...:(

I'm in a similar situation when I ride with my brother. He doesn't race, but he's been riding for over 20 years. When we ride together, for me it's a very good workout, for him it's usually a recovery ride from the century or so that he rode yesterday. I don't mind, it's time we get to spend together. When we were younger and crazier, we rode motorcycles, now that we're older and wiser, it's bicycles.

Does anyone have an approximate weight of what the stock wheels on a Caad 9-7 weigh? They are the Cannondale branded hubs and CXP-22 rims.

Thanks!

I've read around 2250g and the skewers 148g.

http://boardreader.com/thread/2009_M...9dsyX3wle.html

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...f-cxp22-wheels

Mine, after going for a spin around Chicago today.
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=189694

Nice bike. Where in Chicago?

Pretty much what mine looked like until I caught "upgraditis".
But even 'out-the-box', my CAAD was undeniably better than my previous bike.

:D

Oak Park, just west. Did a 20 mile or so loop down through Berwyn into North Riverside/Brookfield

Yeah I'm still going through it. I"ve added a full 2008 SRAM Rival group to it (Compact and 11-23), got the fit slowly coming together. And after finally having the edges of the original a$$ hatchet saddle blow out I threw this seat on. I have a FSA Compact bar waiting to go on, I'm thinking that white tape and red hoods will happen with that. Once the season starts back up a set of wheels for it and then I'm done. Oh and the best part, as of now I'm all in for $850 :)