1987 SR400, Mint color

[letsbike]

The color of this bicycle caught my eye. I looked around our site's archives and didn't see another example, so I thought that I would post it. 1987 sure stands out for its unique paint colors and graphics.
Nice bike/nice price.

 

[IdahoBrett]

I do like the color and I don’t know why. Could be an 80’s vibe thing. It’s a 60cm frame. I could ride it.

Neat find!

 

[letsbike]

I do like the color and I don’t know why. Could be an 80’s vibe thing. It’s a 60cm frame. I could ride it.

Neat find!

It's being sold by this one seller in Derby, Kansas that always has a steady stream of really mint bikes he is selling. I am curious to what his source is. If you remember that Crest Cannondale that we had the big thread on; it was his. That bike is still for sale, and it's been at least a year since I first saw it.

 

[IdahoBrett]

I do remember the Crest Cannondale. The gears in my head spun for a bit trying to figure out how to get it out West.

 

[letsbike]

Eyeing the component specifications for this bike a few definitely 80's things jumped out at me. First is the fact that Cannondale felt it was important to let you know that the hubs had low flanges, as opposed to high flanges.
Second was the fork being made out of Mangaloy. It sounds exotic, but it's a trade name of the Tange Corp. It had me researching a bit, something that was a bit harder for a bicycle buyer to do in the mid 1980's, where you were limited to the paper pages of bicycle periodicals for your information.
Attached is some interesting information that I found.

 

[letsbike]

Two other things of note are the fact that Cannondale offered this bike in eight frame sizes when it's competitors typically offered only four.

I also would not be comfortable on a bicycle that had a low range of 42T×24T gearing (47 gear inches). Perhaps that's why they called it a Team Comp, you had to be an Olympian to get it up the big hills. It's up to marketing to spec the bikes, and owners to tweak them to their needs.

 

[black lightning 1987]

I like the color. It would be nice to add a fourth 1987 road frame to the cache and a different color. The Alpha 3000 stuff would have to go.