Highest touring model seen
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Updated US built Cannondale Touring Bike list attached. Version 4 includes the 2010 Euro Tesoro Traveller Classic model which was much like a 2009 and didn't carry the Tesoro name (just a marketing thing). I assume the frames were US built but 2010 is late for that. Perhaps they were 2009 built surplus and the Tesoro Classic was the run-out model for the smaller Euro market. I've never seen one, but there were quite a few other models from the 'Urban' catalogue that were touring capable with different frames that looked non-US built. However, the Urban catalogues started in 2006 I think so most of those oddities would have been US built..
Some Euro oddities that I have found include -
Some Euro oddities that I have found include -
| 2006 Touring Light with Slice carbon fork from the 2006 Urban catalogue, Si, curvy stays (looks like a Sport Road with drops swaged down tube). Patriot blue with map theme decals like the T series. |
| 2006 Touring FS with 26 wheels and Furio frame with FS +Fatty in Slime green matte |
| 2007 Touring Classic from the Urban catalogue of that year is a CAAD like the previous but has an alloy curved fork apparently (not Fatty) |
| 2007 bikes from Urban catalogue all have internal cable routing. Trekking and Furio frames used for the Touring Rohloff Ultra and the Touring Ultra. All Trekking, Adventure, Street and Touring except Classic have Fatty forks. Trekking light has disc brakes. |
| 2008 Trekking has curvy stays but otherwise like CAAD3, Vbrakes |
| 200? Touring Light with carbon fork, Si, curvy stays (looks like a Sport Road or Warrior frame with swaged down tube). Grey with map theme decals like the T series. I have a monochrome photo so colour not determined. |
JohnnyD
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That is quite a lot of information that you and letsbike have condensed into something very usuful. Even a Touring model luddite like myself can figure it out. Good job and thank you.
@ Jon L. Thanks for this list! Something I've never understood about the 1996, 1997 & 1998 touring framesets is: why did the catalog call them the CAAD2 ("double-A" for C'dale advanced aluminum design), but the bike's decal (near the back of the top tube) said CAD2 (single-A)?
Also, may I offer two possible suggestions that may or may not be corrections to the 1999 row?
Correction 1? In 1999, they unified around "CAAD2 Touring" (no mention of CAD2 in catalog nor bike decals), at least in the US market.
Correction 2? While the T1000 was pictured in the 1999 catalog with the Shimano bar-end shifters, mine (received in NH in Dec 1998) and a friend's (received in NC later that year) were shipped with Shimano 105 STI levers. Did anyone get bar-ends that year?
Cheers,
Will in NYC
Also, may I offer two possible suggestions that may or may not be corrections to the 1999 row?
Correction 1? In 1999, they unified around "CAAD2 Touring" (no mention of CAD2 in catalog nor bike decals), at least in the US market.
Correction 2? While the T1000 was pictured in the 1999 catalog with the Shimano bar-end shifters, mine (received in NH in Dec 1998) and a friend's (received in NC later that year) were shipped with Shimano 105 STI levers. Did anyone get bar-ends that year?
Cheers,
Will in NYC
I think the A in the CAAD2 decal is supposed to be interpreted as two A's, with a smaller one inside the larger one. Substitutions to catalog spec were fairly common for Cannondale.
Noted Will, thanks. Bar end shifters on the UK models that I have seen, but I guess I should defer to the larger home market of the US. CAAD2 and CAD2 - same thing surely.