Cat2forLife

Tekkie Town?

As an avid (pardon the pun) Sram fan with Sram on my bikes and riding Sram for the last 15 years, that statement is debatable 😅

Where are you going to buy this Cannondale from? Locally or import? I think it's going to be quite difficult to get any Cannondale road bikes locally.

Thank you, sir!

That's the RC20. RC10 is the same bike, but in white. And comes standard with power meter and carbon wheels. I bought the power meter when I bought the bike and have ordered a set of Winspace Hyper 50mm wheels. The bike comes with Syncros alloy wheels that I'll keep for rainy days. The wheels in the picture belong to a friend of mine who has an RC15, but has since purchased a set of Black Inc wheels, so these are on loan until I get my new wheels. The bikes comes with Sram Force AXS groupset and Syncros saddle and alloy bars. I've put my S-Works Power saddle on, because my butt is already imprinted on it and I've put on some carbon bars.

After 5 years of faithful service, I have replaced my Specialized Tarmac with this:

Did you remember to enter?

Totally planned and meant to do that

Are you guys going for the win? We're defending champs. Just sayin' Although, I wasn't actually riding for that team yet at the time

I was near the back of the bunch (stupidly) when we hit the 'climb'. It looked like a scene out of a Vietnam movie. I remember I also stupidly attacked just before we hit the N7. Nearly got dropped on the little bump on the N7 because of that

Our average speed last year was 39.8 last year out of A. Pretty sure that's not the fastest ever, though. Hold on to your hats!

That's gonna be fun

They are not permanently bonded to the frame. The epoxy bonds to the carbon, yes, but not to the plastic. The epoxy forms a snug hole for the cups to fit in. The cups can then be removed after if need be. Look, I agree it's a stupid design. But the point I've been trying to make is: Stupid design or not, it was not a once of thing. It was common practice on these frames and every Spez dealer knew this. Cycles Direct have been a Spez dealer for many years. They should have known what the procedure is for these frames.

Well in this case, Sh*t design or not, the blame does fall on the installer. Cycles Direct have been selling Spez for many years. This was/is common practice on those Spez frames. So it should have been done. Regardless of whether or not in your oponion it is bad design. Epoxied BB cups rarely fail if ever.

I get that. I too am sometimes frustrated with all the different BB standards and not to mention all the proprietary systems like the Look cranks. But cranks have been reinvented many times over the years. If not, we would all still be using cotter pins. Some stick, like Cannondale's BB30 (which has become a standard now) and some don't.