Chaps I am here to ask about the virtues of the sloping frame design and the hot name (for those of us who went to school in New England, perhaps if I attended school in sunny Sacramento, CA I might be asking about a Hell of the West bike) of the Beast of the East M800 vs the more traditional frame design of the M900. What are the benefits of the sloping frame vs the straight frame? Should I invest (if I can manage to source a Beast of the East M800 in the States) to have something different than my M400?
I come from a humble beginning of a Huffy 10 speed 26" that I bought with my first salary doing calendar work at a local printshop ages ago, then I evolved into a Benotto 27" 10 speed and did training in her in the late 1970´s. Then went to graduate school in Boston in the late 1980´s and didn't even noticed Cannondales nor other bikes but a friends commuter a Peugeot bike. However, I left biking for a long while and then I entered a radical bike store that carried mountain bikes and in 1993 bought a Cannondale M400 it felt better than a Marine Palisades.
I still have my Cannondale M400 albeit, with beefier components, XT all around but LX in the front derailer as the bike shop deemed necessary to steal my XT from me. I intended to use this bike for the rides in down town San José, Costa Rica organized by an ONG called Chepecletas (Chepe is the nickname for José and Cletas is slang for bikes), but never did and my 15 year old son uses it as well as I do as it has better climbing pinion than my AMP Research B4.
I am also guilty of having bought used from a friend who needed to get rid of an AMP Research B4 and upgraded the beautiful (albeit stolen in the bike shop) damper to a Risse air and oil damper. Luckily I was able to find replacement Rockshox brakes to retrofit my AMP´s that didn't have hydraulic power in them thanks to @lloydtrans member!
To train with the chaps I also have a Cannondale R900Si CAAD5. A beauty in its own right but I will post a question about her in the classic road bike forum!
I come from a humble beginning of a Huffy 10 speed 26" that I bought with my first salary doing calendar work at a local printshop ages ago, then I evolved into a Benotto 27" 10 speed and did training in her in the late 1970´s. Then went to graduate school in Boston in the late 1980´s and didn't even noticed Cannondales nor other bikes but a friends commuter a Peugeot bike. However, I left biking for a long while and then I entered a radical bike store that carried mountain bikes and in 1993 bought a Cannondale M400 it felt better than a Marine Palisades.
I still have my Cannondale M400 albeit, with beefier components, XT all around but LX in the front derailer as the bike shop deemed necessary to steal my XT from me. I intended to use this bike for the rides in down town San José, Costa Rica organized by an ONG called Chepecletas (Chepe is the nickname for José and Cletas is slang for bikes), but never did and my 15 year old son uses it as well as I do as it has better climbing pinion than my AMP Research B4.
I am also guilty of having bought used from a friend who needed to get rid of an AMP Research B4 and upgraded the beautiful (albeit stolen in the bike shop) damper to a Risse air and oil damper. Luckily I was able to find replacement Rockshox brakes to retrofit my AMP´s that didn't have hydraulic power in them thanks to @lloydtrans member!
To train with the chaps I also have a Cannondale R900Si CAAD5. A beauty in its own right but I will post a question about her in the classic road bike forum!
