CAAD9 Love - Got to be the best for 1k surely?...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    silverpigeon wrote:
    I test rode one a few weeks ago and was very underwhelmed after what I'd read on here. Was only for about 10 miles or so though.

    After riding a mates Principia I've decided to build up one of those instead.

    Principia frames are lovely but very very expensive new (800 quid for the cheap one, 1800 for the better one. Yes. 1800 quid for an aluminium frame and forks!)

    The problem with a test ride is the frame is at a level far above the finishing kit. Hence I took my best wheels etc along for the test ride. I think they are fantastic!
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Bigpikle wrote:
    does my new (old) 08 CAAD9 CX bike count?

    Yes - just back from some mud fun...

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    Is that a suitcase hanging from your saddle? I don't think that'd go as hand luggage on an Easyjet flight! :wink:
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    Any idea when the 2011 one comes out?

    Quite keen to try and get one this time round on the ride2work scheme.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    About Oct for the CAAD10 apparently.
  • matt.rochfort
    matt.rochfort Posts: 147
    I love the fact that this thread has opened-up again and is still going strong after a year.

    Finally managed to top 50mph on Vineyards/Carbone Hill near Newgate Street in Hertfordshire - the CAAD 9 with a new set of Ultergra tubeless wheels just feels better and better - totally rock solid and confidence inspiring!
  • nochekmate
    nochekmate Posts: 3,460
    A 54cm CAAD 9 is on eBay tonight at £700 BIN if anybody is interested - not mine I might add!

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canondale-Caad-9- ... K_Bikes_GL
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    nochekmate wrote:
    A 54cm CAAD 9 is on eBay tonight at £700 BIN if anybody is interested - not mine I might add!

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canondale-Caad-9- ... K_Bikes_GL

    It's down the road from me too, I'd be tempted to put in a cheeky bid if I wasn't buying a computer this month.
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  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    I really don't know why people don't believe me when I say a CAAD9 is better than a cheap carbon frame.
    I'm really curious to try a CAAD9 sometime, but it's worth remembering that carbon frames are getting better all of the time, and there is a trickle down effect from the high end models to the cheaper ones. So it's possible now to get a seriously top quality carbon frame for a grand or not much more, whereas the frames you would have got 3 or 4 years ago in the lower carbon fiber price bracket would have been much lower quality.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Another nice CAAD9 courtesy of WW...

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  • mattsy666
    mattsy666 Posts: 91
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Another nice CAAD9 courtesy of WW...

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    Shame about the Bontrager cages tho ... just wrong ...

    I was given one of those carbon cages just last week, free with my new Flash, and although very light and very nice looking i couldn't bring myself to stick Trek parts on my new 'dale ... just stuck a basic black alu Cannondale one on instead for £6 (it is MTB after all) ... and sold the carbon one for £20 (the guy who bought it was very chuffed for some reason ... he was at my house within 5 minutes of phoning) ...

    I have alu taxc tao's on my other bikes (silver/black on my six13 and black on my Badboy) ... 10 grams heaver than Bontrager carbon one but is infnitely better looking (at least on a 'dale - imo) ...
  • mattsy666
    mattsy666 Posts: 91
    lfcquin wrote:

    The only thing about these Cannondale's for me is the "made in USA stickers", I just don't like them. I don't think I'd have bought my Sabbath if it had said "made in China" down the side either.

    Odd reason to not buy a bike I know, but hey - we have to differentiate somehow....

    The HMIUSA is a major draw for me ... and one of the reasons I want (but can't justify) a CAAD9 ... likely to be one of the very last HMIUSA 'dales ... saying that, I stuck German tyres on my Six13 before even riding it ... and it has a Japanese groupo ...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I agree about the 'Hand made in USA' stickers, would rather they weren't there... I'm not arrised where my frame is made as long as it's good! (My Cervelo came in a box that proudly had 'Made in China' printed on the side :o )
  • Mothyman
    Mothyman Posts: 655
    my fellow 'newbie' friend is planning on buying a cannondale six 105.....he asked me what is the differrence between that and the caad equivalent price.....I bow to your greater knowledge on the forum...anyone with a succint answer which i can pass on?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    The CAAD will have a better groupset for the same price (Ultegra).

    That said, I would probably get the 6.
  • Mothyman
    Mothyman Posts: 655
    thanks NapD...he seems set on the 6...Evans doing it 300 quid off apparently...
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Was perving about on WW and found this:

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    The Google brought up these two:

    66cm frame.
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    Emiliana the CAAD9
  • silverpigeon
    silverpigeon Posts: 327
    The problem with a test ride is the frame is at a level far above the finishing kit. Hence I took my best wheels etc along for the test ride. I think they are fantastic!

    Fair point and a good idea.
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  • Danny M
    Danny M Posts: 132
    heres mine pretty standard pro 3's and lizard skins added

    http://s803.photobucket.com/albums/yy32 ... t=bike.jpg
  • El Diego
    El Diego Posts: 440
    I currently have a CAAD9 Ultegra, FSA SLK-Light with Ksyrium SL's. It's by far the best bike I've ever owned, absolutely love it, but...

    I have had my head turned by the Cannondale Six Special Edition £1400 from Evans and was thinking is it worth the trade? I would swap the groupset, crank and wheels from my CAAD9.

    Is the Six fame any lighter than the CAAD9? I recently did a 75 mile ride on the CAAD9 and did feel a little beaten up, so was wondering if there would be a significant difference in feel over the CAAD's alloy frame.
  • macondo01
    macondo01 Posts: 706
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,950
    Now that the CAAD9 has disappeared from the Cannondale line-up, I'm hoping that my last-of-the-line Handmade-in-USA CAAD9 will turn out to be a collector's item (eventually). I have to admit to having also got a 2010 Super Six Ultegra recently, but the CAAD9 gives me a real buzz each time I take it out, all the same.
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