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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Mostly what I remember is the sticker appliers being pissed about how small that sticker was. The stickers were manually applied wet to the frame after color painting and before clear coat; it was quite a difficult thing to do. They pulled me and the vendor down to the factory several times...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Will do!
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Here's the patent.
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    I'm about 95% sure the patent was, as others have said, for the oval seat stays. There was a lot of internal talk at the time (not sure about external marketing efforts) about the side-to-side stiffness it provided. I know there were deflection tests that were done as proof the rear wheel...
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    Cannondale History

    Very badly bound. If I try to lay it flat on a scanner, it would not last long.
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    Cannondale History

    I spent about an hour this morning trying to figure out how to do this. I used my phone to take pictures of the pages (the book it too big for my scanner). There is no copyright page, but there is a bit of an explanation of what it is, but not why it was done. I'm assuming this guy did the...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    It's very cheaply bound and I'm concerned mostly about breaking the spine. I also don't think my scanner is big enough. TBD.
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    Cannondale History

    I got one last week from a book store in Connecticut. I have to find some time to do some scanning. The most surprising thing about the book is how cheaply bound it is, which makes scanning difficult without damaging it.
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    My friend with the pink recumbent tandem just sent me this link: tandems are now legal in all of Japan.
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    It has! I immediately went through it page by page looking to see if any of our photos were in it, but came up empty. There were pictures of some of our old co-workers, but Laura and I struck out. I'm not sure how I can make it available to everyone...it's pretty big. The most surprising thing...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Interestingly, Laura and I had C'dale R&D people caution us against taking C'dales on our trip for this very reason. We did have a C'dale aluminum lowrider frame crack in India and we had it "welded" back together. Somehow it survived the fix and it stayed together for the rest of the trip.
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    I might be remembering that incorrectly. I've asked the guy who designed the Black Lightening to drop in and shed some light on how it happened. We'll see if he does.
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    I wanted 36-spoke, 26" wheels for additional strength and reliability. I also wanted wider tires than were available for 27"/700c. We were headed into places where the roads would raise hell with 27"/700c wheels and tires; I was worried about potato-chipping a wheel as well as pinch flats. This...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Hey Kevin, We decided to consolidate all of C'dale's business with Reynolds Metals, outside of Richmond, VA. It looks like they've been bought by Alcoa. NOTE: Reynolds Metals is not the same company that produces the famous aluminum foil. Reynolds Metals did all of the tubing and the...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Hey Nico, The culture at the Georgetown offices in the 80s was pretty amazing. Sales had it's own culture, driven mainly by Ted K, Danno, and Joe. Sales was in the "modern" building filled with cubicles and people on the phone nonstop. It was kind of a generic building and where reception was...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Hey ID Brett, Nope, I don't know anyone from the early 2000s...only the 80s and if they stayed through the 2000s. Most who stayed that long were in sales. By the 2000s I was living in Tokyo and had two kids and two companies that had nothing to do with bicycles (unfortunately). I believe the...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Mike married the woman he met, and rode back to SD with, after we split up in Bankok. She was from Vancouver, Canada and they have lived in BC ever since. His bike was stolen out of his locked garage about 5 years ago. He was devastated and still talks about how much it hurts to have lost that...
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    I found a copy of the book from a book seller in CT on eBay and ordered it. It should arrive early next week. I'm super curious if any of my photos are in it!
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    Hmmm...most of the people I'm friendly with would not have been on the list. Could take up a collection and just buy it. It's not all that expensive if it's still for sale.
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    Hello from a 80's C'dale Employee

    I am connected with several of them via LinkedIn. If I see a question one of them may be able to answer, I'll use the opportunity to try to get them to join. And sorry about the length—I tend to be pretty verbose. I like telling stories though and to me, it's hard to explain how our bikes came...
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