help me identify & date my cannondale

[kampos]

An easy-ish way to tell is pop in the forks, BotE frames have that higher bottom bracket also and that will show up easily once the chassis is "complete". Also I'm pretty sure that this era Cannondales have a very long but decipherable frame number on the underside of one of the dropouts. Keep an eye on your chainstays by the way, I had a similar frame and it cracked almost the whole way round ... although I was probably a bit tardy in spotting the damage to it.

 

[Remko]

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I think it's a standard geometry frame and not the Beast Of The East frame, which has a longer headtube and a sloping toptube.

I think "24pouces" was right. I thought alle bote frames had the longer headtube, even the small sizes, but this screenshot of the 1991 catalogue shows a short headtube.

 

[24pouces]

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I think "24pouces" was right. I thought alle bote frames had the longer headtube, even the small sizes

I only got small sized old 'dales. How to recognize a small sized top level frame to a BoTE ?
Look at the jonction between seats stays-seat tube and top tube : on 15" size, the seat stays are weld under the top tube (like Rocky Mountain…)

 

[24pouces]

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Definitively Beast of the East frame

 

[fabian_lou]

Thanks for everyone's help this is the first build I'm doing all by myself... does anybody know where I can get a derailleur hanger for it? The one that came with it doesn't seem to be the right 9ne. Looks like the previous owner has made one fit by drilling an extra hole.

 

[Pierre]

Probably worth looking it up on http://gearmechhanger.com - really great guy, lots of stock, UK based - if you search for "Cannondale", there are three pages of options, Pilo D72 may be the one you're after.