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That's a long time with no bike. Here's my steel 2002 Raleigh Professional.

I got $912 at DHL and $1260 at FedEx.

I've never seen a number like that on a Cannondale. I'm thinking your frame must have been made by another builder. Not many aluminum builders ground and finished welds. Klein was one but I don't have much knowledge of the early ones. I would try to find good pictures of early Kleins and see...

I would have guessed that they made Raleighs in Nottingham much later than the early 70s, but perhaps only the high end ones. The company history could probably make for a pretty thick book. The wiki article explains the use of the Raleigh name for the USA made frames which started in 1982...

When I marked the value down to $50, the duties were reduced to $151. Still seems very excessive. I assume that if shipping damage occurred, the claim would be limited to $50.

It's even worse than I would have guessed. I'm getting $269 shipping cost plus $317 for import duties. I may have overestimated the box size and/or weight but those values are never know for certain until the package is ready to ship.

I wasn't sure about international shipping via bikeflights. Give me a postal code and I'll look into it.

I got to thinking that Raleigh may have made frames in the USA during the Technium era. I have a Technium, will have to dig it out and see if it's listed on the frame.

Bike is not at home and I couldn't find a photo on my computer. I will have to get to where it is and get it cleaned up to take some decent photos. Remind me if I don't get it done. Might be worth checking shipping cost in the mean time. Guessing FedEx or DHL will be very expensive to ship a...

I should have mentioned that Cannondale was one of the very few large scale manufacturers whose frames were made in the USA. The only other company I can think of that made a lot of frames in the USA was Trek, but a lot of their lower end frames came from Taiwan. Cannondales were produced in...

I have a 1990 ST600. It's pretty much stock, in good condition. Believe that it's a 23" but might be a 21".

That is a 1996 F400 with Quadra 10 fork.

Cannondale started out in the bike business selling trailers and bags for tourists. The first bikes were made in 1983. The company has sponsored a number of pro and amateur teams, the best known being the Saeco - Cannondale road and Volvo - Cannondale mountain bike teams. I would guess that...

Welcome. That's a nice selection. CAAD5 with SR might be hard to improve on, but since you have such a good start you will have to find an example of each of the CAAD road frames.

Generally speaking, the built bikes came as described in the catalogs, with paint specific to given models. There were sometimes substitutions of a part here and there. Cannondale did sell framesets most years, so any dealer could order a frame and build it any way the customer wanted. It...

Pretty common comment about the 3.0 frames being too stiff. I have around 8,000 miles on one and still think it's a pretty great bike. A lot of those opinions come from guys schooled on Reynolds 531 frames, which although they ride better, also are noodles when it comes to transferring pedal...

Everyone who has owned one seems to love the CAAD10s. There was an interesting recent thread about favorite CAAD frames on the paceline forum. There was a wide range of favorites but I'd guess that the 10s got the most votes. Hope you will attempt to fill in the gaps in your stable between...

I think those rivets just plug vent holes needed for welding the frames.

It looks great. Hope that the weather improves, would be a shame to get it messed up on the first ride.

Welcome. I can't see much of the details of the bike but the paint looks right for a 1986 SR400.