Cannondale CAAD 9 reviews?

[_Daemon_]

Anyone have one? How big is the difference between the CAAD 8 and 9?

 

And the CAAD riders here are you guys happy with your frames?

 

[greatwhite]

Anyone have one? How big is the difference between the CAAD 8 and 9?

And the CAAD riders here are you guys happy with your frames?

 

Supposedly the difference in weight between CAAD7 and CAAD8 was 30g and the seat stays being 'ovalized'. So probably the same sort of incramental change to CAAD9.

 

I know a lot of CAAD riders swear by their frames. I borrowed a CAD3 from a team mate and found it a good frame, but when I got my CAAD7, personally, I was disappointed with it. They advertised it as 200g lighter that the CAAD5 which it wasn't (it was about 50g lighter at 1.3kg) and laterally the back end was softer than my team mates old CAD3, but vertically just as hard (in fairness I must say that I had previously been riding a titanium pinarello which was all round a pliant frame, so the vertical stiffness of both frames came as a bit of a shock to me). The only plus was that I didn't break it, but there again I only raced it for a few months.