Cannondale CAAD4 Advice needed

nomadicbry

Hi

Don't know much about Cannondale other than they have a good rep in the MTB world. Friend of a friend of a friend is selling his cannondale CAAD4 for £250
Is this worth it, from what I've heard it's been well looked after and serviced regulalrly. What is the CAAD4 like. I intend to use it to basically get back into road cycling with my lad so expect to be doing runs of around 30 miles with hills. I would appreciate any advice or thoughts you may have in regards to the bike.

The spec is as follows:

cannondale caad 4 frame about 6 years old
bontrager select wheels
continental gp400 tyres
cane creek brakes
shimano ultegra 10 speed rear mech
shimano 105 front mech
shimano ultegra chain
shimano 105 shifters
bontrager triple crankset
ritchey pro bars
easton stem
selle italia seat
brc profile design forks

Thanks,
B

STEFANOS4784

I have a Caad2 frame (older one) and still love it, the one you descibe seems like a great buy, with a decent groupset and quality tyres. Provided it's not on it's last legs i reckon it's a good buy-especially if you can knock another 50 quid off

Tom Butcher

Yeah any 10 speed bike with a half decent groupset is going to be worth £250 of anyone's money if it's in good nick. With the price of new bikes going up this is the kind of second hand buy that makes perfect sense for starting out - you could race on that or go out with your local club racers and not be out of place.

daveydave43

sounds like an absolutely fantastic buy

i have a caad 4 triple with tiagra.
stiff, light, and fairly forgiving too. ive been out with club racers on this bike and its not been overshadowed by their carbon machines at all.

harrywolper

if you don't want it for that price, I'll buy it. Honestly that sounds like a very good deal, if you end up liking proper cycling [i.e. road not MTB ;-)] then the CAAD4 will keep you happy for a few years. I have a 7 year old CAAD 5 just retired to turbo as I repaced it with a ebay CAAD9.