Recent content by black lightning 1987

I spent Friday through Sunday at the 40th anniversary reunion of my car's Indy 500 win. Missed the flyover but it's always impressive. Had good chats with former team members who own Cannondales.

Could you post a close up photo of the paint in sunlight? I have a couple of frames here that I could use to replace the stolen 1989 bike I owned. I was thinking that I would just paint it straight black, but what you found sounds like a good option.

Great looking bike.

I don't know what those characters relate to, other than MD is the size.

I'm wondering if someone could have replaced the original shifters with Shimano compatible ones. I don't know if there's a way to ID them. SunTour thumb shifters exist.

My guess is a 2010 model made in 2009. The 2009 USA catalog shows only Rize 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 with the 1 and 2 being carbon. All the photos show One, Two, etc. on the side of the top tube. The 2010 catalog I have shows 5 RZ One Forty models with the 1 and 2 being carbon. Interesting that...

I'm not sure that the yellow frame on eBay is actually a 1992 model. The first catalog to show a track frame was 1993. There were surely some built late in 1992 but for the 1993 model year. Serial number isn't shown or posted in the listing.

I'm not sure about the freehub swap. I'd guess that the Sante hub was 126 mm spaced, so you might need a longer axle to swap to an 8 speed freehub. I have NOS 7 and 8 speed DA Uniglide cassettes somewhere but I think they have kind of odd tooth counts, possibly 13-19. Also have a bunch of odd...

I'm thinking that would be a pretty easy paint scheme to duplicate. The hard part would be landing a track frameset for a reasonable price.

That's surprising. I thought that DA always got the innovations first. DA was 7 speed SIS in 1987 according to the Cannondale catalog. So DA must have been the first Shimano 7 speed indexed group, or equal first with Sante. There was no Sante equipped Cannondale in 1987 so it makes the two...

Looking at the catalogs, it appears that the original track frame design was last made in 1995. I believe it was also the last Cannondale with SunTour components. As far as I can tell, they didn't make another track bike until the 2003 CAAD5.

I was just guessing about 1987 Sante. According to the Cannondale catalog, Dura Ace was still using a freewheel in 1987, so assumed Sante would be the same. Perhaps the term "cassette" hadn't come into use yet and DA actually had a freehub.

Been a long time since I saw NOS Sante. I don't have many Shimano catalogs but I'm guessing that Sante was only made for two years. I'm guessing it was 6 speed with a freewheel hub in 1987 and came with a 7 speed freehub in 1988.

Not sure that link is going to work. Bike was posted in March of 2025.

Last one I saw was advertised at $2400. A beautiful Iceland Green 1994. Sold the next day. https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=314884&highlight=cannondale+track