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I wonder if anyone has ever tried to measure how much power it takes to spin gummed up jockey wheels. I've come across some that you could barely turn with your fingers. I don't think I've got any Cannondale down close to 16 lbs. I'm sure my CAAD6 is the lightest, with Campagnolo 10...

I wish I could say the same. This time of year I only get 1-4 miles at a time, shuffling tractors and wagons between corn fields.

Thanks Mike. Hope that you can continue to check in.

They both look great. I think that I'd really like the M700. It's pretty close to my 1993 M800 but I'd prefer the lower BB and level top tube of the M700. I hope that you can find a reasonably priced Lefty. After 30 years on Cannondales I still have not ridden a dual suspension Cannondale...

I recall doing similar rides 25+ years ago: My 1987 R600 vs. a 531 Bob Jackson. Try as I might with numerous attempts over the same route I could never go as fast on the Jackson as I could on the Cannondale. Unless you have a cracked tube on your Cannondale I would doubt that the frame is the...

I think that a pretty good book could be written about noises that bikes make and the various causes and cures. My guess is that headsets (properly adjusted and in good condition) are unlikely to make any noise. Stems, seatposts, and bottom brackets on the other hand....

It's always good when a part you haven't tried before works out well. Guessing you will get a few weeks this winter with a lot of snow and that will be a good time to change the headset.

That's a beauty. I'd love to have it but have had bad luck with shipping lately. Too bad you're not a bit closer to I-55 as my brother travels to Mississippi regularly for work.

I've owned my M800 for over 20 (25?) years and have never touched the headset. It gets ridden regularly - I rode it a couple of days ago. Pretty sure that those headsets are traditional type with caged ball bearings. Really all you need to do is pull the fork and measure the ball diameter...

It sounds like you have been successful. Thanks for posting those documents. Did you find them on the current Cannondale website? Perhaps Craig (MendonCycleSmith) can explain the shimming process, but I know he is busy and doesn't check in here daily.

The 1993 rigid frames with the Pepperoni fork used 1 1/4" threaded steerer tubes. The cup OD is 37 mm, the crown race ID is 33 mm, and the stem quill OD is 28.6 mm. In 1992 the M700 also had the all-aluminum Pepperoni fork so I'm pretty sure it was 1 1/4". The 1992 M500 had a steel Tange...

KJ is likely 1999, October. That would make it a 2000 model year bike. https://vintagecannondale.com/info/serial_numbers/ The owners manuals are pretty generic for a given model year. Mostly safety information with nothing model specific.

Hope you can get some miles on it soon and report back.

I guess that significant is in the eye of the beholder. The 1988 frame was pretty much the original road frame design. 1989 was the year that the 3.0 frames were introduced. They have the cantilevered dropouts and larger down tube diameter - Cannondale claimed that they were a pound lighter...

Hi. We can probably figure out the year and size with pictures and measurements. Silk Path was made for several years, ending circa 2000. Have a look at the 2000 catalog and previous years in the catalog section.

We will need some good pictures to be able to help. Even then it can be tough, as some bikes were built from framesets and won't conform to any catalog model.

Agree on the fork. The 27.5" sounds like a better replacement. The 9 speed Microshift sounds like a good option and is pretty reasonably priced.

Shimano 6/7/8 works so well - it's too bad that they had to move on. I particularly like thumbshifters. One of the reasons I bought my 1989 SM800 instead of the newer bikes on the shop floor was that it had SunTour thumbshifters and most of the newer models had Rapidfire.

That's a shame. Hope that you will be compensated. It will depend on the years of both bikes. In a given year the frames were often exactly the same. Forks were sometimes different between models with the same frame. Some years there were two models of road frames, as in the era when they...

Seems like everything that I have checked recently at Universal has been out of stock, so I'm kind of surprised that you were able to source what you needed. What is the range of the 9 speed cassettes?