I've only ever kept one bike since new and that is my Cannondale Flash from 2012.
I find it really comfy and just fits me so well.
I wanted to make a thread for it, mainly for my own sake, somewhere I can track where the bike is now, what I'm changing and a log of my favourite bike thus far.
So heres a pic of it as of today. I use it daily for commuting and the odd off-road jaunt and often round the New Forest. The most off roading this sees is my annual South Downs Way ride but thats fine with me.
Don't forget the doook!
There are some changes I made from the stock bike over time. One is the wheels. I replaced the Enve wheels with some from stans because i didn't like the faff of internals nipples and the enves were nice to look but a similar weight to the stans ones, tyres are a personal choice, i like the Mezcals in 2.1" and have nothing but good things to say about them.
On the subject of wheels, I will have some new carbon wheels to fit soon. The DT hubs on my bike are worn, and the nipples in the wheels are beginning to pull through in some places so a replacement set due anyway. More to come on those when I have them ready.
Another main change was ridding the bike of the hollogram cranks. Lovely and light but I prefer the XTR ones I have now. I used a rotor BB30-24mm bottom bracket and away I went!
Main spec:
Frame: Cannondale Flash 29er HiMod large
Fork: Lefty PBR 90mm carbon.
Wheels: Stans crest with DT swiss 240s rear hub, cannondale 50 front hub. Sapim CX ray spokes. Mezcal 29x2.1" tyres setup tubeless
Cranks: XTR M985 with 32T narrowwide chainring from PassQuest.
Pedals: XTR Trail.
Bars: Easton, came from another bike but work well. Chucked on some SQLab inner barends.
Seatpost: Cannondale Himod
Saddle: Tune speedneedle.
Rear mech: SRAM GX with garbaruk cage and oversized pulleys.
Brakes: Magura MT5 - the resevoir cap is damaged hence the ol rubber band bodge until i can be bothered to fix em up.
Current weight is 9.4kg as pictured.
My plan for this bike is to trim some weight off and probably have a rigid setup for it too. I have used it for some time with a rigid fork running 27.5" wheels and that saved about 700g from the weight but i like have a suspension fork. I ride a lot and mostly non-offroad so a rigid setup works well for me.
My new wheels won't be light really. I made some with those aliexpress titanium/carbon spokes that were about 1100g but the lefty spokes kept breaking so will re-use the rims and lace them into some other hubs and use pillar spokes so I can build them up on a budget. Wheels expected to be about 1400g but are 30mm deep.
I will also be changing the bars soon and probably the brakes. I'll either tune some MT8s or go with XTR.
I find it really comfy and just fits me so well.
I wanted to make a thread for it, mainly for my own sake, somewhere I can track where the bike is now, what I'm changing and a log of my favourite bike thus far.
So heres a pic of it as of today. I use it daily for commuting and the odd off-road jaunt and often round the New Forest. The most off roading this sees is my annual South Downs Way ride but thats fine with me.
Don't forget the doook!
There are some changes I made from the stock bike over time. One is the wheels. I replaced the Enve wheels with some from stans because i didn't like the faff of internals nipples and the enves were nice to look but a similar weight to the stans ones, tyres are a personal choice, i like the Mezcals in 2.1" and have nothing but good things to say about them.
On the subject of wheels, I will have some new carbon wheels to fit soon. The DT hubs on my bike are worn, and the nipples in the wheels are beginning to pull through in some places so a replacement set due anyway. More to come on those when I have them ready.
Another main change was ridding the bike of the hollogram cranks. Lovely and light but I prefer the XTR ones I have now. I used a rotor BB30-24mm bottom bracket and away I went!
Main spec:
Frame: Cannondale Flash 29er HiMod large
Fork: Lefty PBR 90mm carbon.
Wheels: Stans crest with DT swiss 240s rear hub, cannondale 50 front hub. Sapim CX ray spokes. Mezcal 29x2.1" tyres setup tubeless
Cranks: XTR M985 with 32T narrowwide chainring from PassQuest.
Pedals: XTR Trail.
Bars: Easton, came from another bike but work well. Chucked on some SQLab inner barends.
Seatpost: Cannondale Himod
Saddle: Tune speedneedle.
Rear mech: SRAM GX with garbaruk cage and oversized pulleys.
Brakes: Magura MT5 - the resevoir cap is damaged hence the ol rubber band bodge until i can be bothered to fix em up.
Current weight is 9.4kg as pictured.
My plan for this bike is to trim some weight off and probably have a rigid setup for it too. I have used it for some time with a rigid fork running 27.5" wheels and that saved about 700g from the weight but i like have a suspension fork. I ride a lot and mostly non-offroad so a rigid setup works well for me.
My new wheels won't be light really. I made some with those aliexpress titanium/carbon spokes that were about 1100g but the lefty spokes kept breaking so will re-use the rims and lace them into some other hubs and use pillar spokes so I can build them up on a budget. Wheels expected to be about 1400g but are 30mm deep.
I will also be changing the bars soon and probably the brakes. I'll either tune some MT8s or go with XTR.
I like these bikes a lot. I'll probably change to an F-Si in the future to get a slightly slacker front end.
