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I would certainly agree - if it was my bike and everything was functional. It wasn't clear what the OP was trying to achieve with the change to 1 x 11/12.

Are Shimano 11 speed MTB freehubs the same spline depth as the 11 speed road hubs? SRAM 11/12 also the same? I built a SRAM 10 road bike about 10 years ago. It's been easy to stay away from their stuff since given the cost.

Metallic can be tricky to spray. Looks like you got a very uniform finish. I just ordered a quart of Hammered Green Rustoleum to refinish several vintage S-K socket set boxes. Thinking that I should send the whole mess to you...

This looks to be an interesting bit of Cannondale history, a frame made for the Motorola team as a demo - a sponsorship deal which ultimately didn't pan out...

The first thing I would do is check your rear hub and see if it's going to be compatible with 11/12. Are you going to want to invest in a new wheel (or pair) in order to make the component swap?

It seems there is no limit to the large cog tooth count these days. What does that cassette weigh? Paint looks great.

Will call you crazy if you paid over $300 for the crankset.

The RaceFace Next crank was available in square taper in 1999. That Excel had it marked down $90 late in the year might indicate that it was being replaced by the ISIS version, which as far as I can tell they never sold. They show a TruVativ crank in 2000 which in the description they term...

That is probably in the year range but I would have guessed ISIS was introduced a bit earlier. I have lots of mail order catalogs here from the general era. I will try to dig through them if you don't hear from RaceFace. Seems to me that I had a bad experience pulling an ISIS crank with the...

Interesting crank, what years were they made? I'm not even sure what year ISIS was introduced but must have been around the same time as Octalink. Is that a triple crank?

Nice work. Always good to see new paint.

6500 fits the CAAD5 era. The Mavic rims in different colors were typical from 1998-2001. I wish I could be of more help but if the paint is original it would probably require someone who was at the factory to explain why it doesn't match anything in the catalogs. I don't know of any other way...

Pictures aren't big enough for me to identify most of the components. In the 2002 model year, the R2000 was 9 speed Ultegra with Campagnolo Proton wheels. In 2001 it was Ultegra 9 with Mavic Ksyrium wheels. With a 20 year old bike, anything could have been swapped out. If it was made in...

I will take them off your hands if nobody else wants them.

I'm not up on what changes may have been made on the newer bikes. I'd run the question by Craig at Mendon Cyclesmith.

I have my eye on another about 3 hours away. Too cold to make the drive recently. Power is out today and I'm running the generator to keep the boiler pump running. It was about 10 degrees here early this morning.

I painted the top tube on a Serotta road bike and blended it in. Even though the black original paint had very fine metallic in it, the repaint with straight gloss black is really not very noticeable. Even though I think it's great when people strip and restore these old bikes, for me it's...

It wasn't me this time.

That's a tough one. 1991 SM500 was black with white web but had red decals, had SunTour X-1 build, and the Cannondale decal was on the down tube. 1990 bikes had the Cannondale decal on the top tube but the catalog doesn't show any colors with the web color over the base color. In both years...

You might try to capture the loose nut by getting it close to the opening and shooting a bit of expandable foam in to trap it. At least it won't rattle then.