Witch road series is this?

[Kaste-Alveng]

This is for sure a CAAD3, and the frame number tells me that it is a 1998. But does anybody know if this is a R1000, R800 or something? I cant find this colour anywhere when I search.
What I know is that the last owner bought it new, and originally it was equiped with full Dura Ace. The fork is original.

 

[black lightning 1987]

Pretty sure that frame was a 2000 model as the KJ stamp translates to October 1999 production. Also believe 2000 was the first year for the Prodigy fork. Interesting that the CAAD3 models in the 2000 catalog all have threaded forks while the CAAD4s are threadless. That could be due to a change after the catalogs went to print. There wouldn't have been a Dura Ace equipped CAAD 3 that year. Original owner may have received the frameset under warranty and transferred the DA from an older damaged frame. It's not unusual for replacement frames to be finished differently from anything in the catalogs. Sharp looking bike regardless.

 

[Kaste-Alveng]

Pretty sure that frame was a 2000 model as the KJ stamp translates to October 1999 production. Also believe 2000 was the first year for the Prodigy fork. Interesting that the CAAD3 models in the 2000 catalog all have threaded forks while the CAAD4s are threadless. That could be due to a change after the catalogs went to print. There wouldn't have been a Dura Ace equipped CAAD 3 that year. Original owner may have received the frameset under warranty and transferred the DA from an older damaged frame. It's not unusual for replacement frames to be finished differently from anything in the catalogs. Sharp looking bike regardless.

Thank you! Its not easy to find similar bikes - especially in this colour. But I think youre right. I may have a newer bike, then...

 

[black lightning 1987]

I don't remember seeing that paint color before. From your pictures it looks to be a dark grey metallic. I have an older Cannondale mountain bike that is grey metallic but your frame looks much darker. I did look up the 2000 Euro catalog on the wayback machine, but the colors on the road frames looked to be the same as the US models. As I mentioned, colors not shown in the catalogs show up here fairly often, especially from European owners. I wish we had input from Cannondale employees to help explain.

 

[Kaste-Alveng]

I don't remember seeing that paint color before. From your pictures it looks to be a dark grey metallic. I have an older Cannondale mountain bike that is grey metallic but your frame looks much darker. I did look up the 2000 Euro catalog on the wayback machine, but the colors on the road frames looked to be the same as the US models. As I mentioned, colors not shown in the catalogs show up here fairly often, especially from European owners. I wish we had input from Cannondale employees to help explain.

I sent a request to Cannondale about this - i hope that someone is curious enough to follow up and maybe find som answers. I will update you along the way

 

[Kaste-Alveng]

Here is what i found out: The colour is named Battleship grey (gloss) and the decals is yellow/orange fade quadrap decals (GRY). This is the same paint/colour combination you can see on the Silk Road 2000 in the year 2000 catalogue. But this bike is a CAAD4 frame and with supention fork. This means that my bike has a colour combination from year 2000, a fork from the same year and a frame from 1999. By the way - the Silk Road 2000 was equiped with Dura Ace. My guess is that the frame was sent to Europe in 1999 and assembled with parts from 2000. Or something like that....

 

[black lightning 1987]

It's possible that both the fork and the finish were mid year additions to the CAAD3 bikes. The lack of a model decal points to it being sold as a frameset, or possibly a warranty replacement.