Pasteys Cannondale Prophet .......... part 2

pastey_boy

Decided to resurrect my trusty old Cannondale Prophet frame as I have enough spare bits to complete it. I, m building it into a general all day tw@tting about bike.

Frame: Cannondale Prophet custom powder coated
Shock: Fox RP23 (fitted a 200x57mm shock in place of the stock 200x50mm, this ups the travel from 140mm to 160mm with no change in geometry)
Forks: Fox 34 CTD 160mm
Bars: Cran Bros Iodine AM Carbon 740mm
Stem: Crank Bros Iodine 2 silver/black
Headset: Superstar 1.5inch red
Grips: Sram Gripshift
Bar Ends: Red alloy cnc

Front Brake Lever assy: Shimano Deore XT
Front disc: Superstar floating black 203mm inc red bolts
Rear Brake Lever assy: Shimano Deore XT
Rear Disc: Superstar floating black180mm inc red bolts
Calipers: Shimano Deore Xt



Shifters: Sram Xo Grip shifters 10spd black/red
Cables: Shimano XT inc Jagwire sealed ferrules/Middleburn oilers
Front Mech: Shimano Xtr Dual ring
Rear Mech: Sram XX

Seat: Charge Scoop black
Seat Post: Gravity Dropper Turbo
Seat Post Clamp: Red cnc

Cranks: Shimano Deore Xt double ring
Chainring(s): 26/38
Chain: Sram
Cassette: Shimano SLX 11/36
Pedals: Shimano XTR m980 trail
Bottom Bracket: Ceramic

Front Wheel: Stans Factory Flow wheelset
Tire: Geax Gato 2.3 Tubeless.

Back Wheel: Stans Factory Flow wheelset
Tire: Geax Gato 2.3 Tubeless

Weight: 29.3lbs inc pedals

Binnie171717

Any final pics and weight? Interested as I have a prophet also and love it. Looking to upgrade it and maybe get a paint job on it also. Other route might be to covert it to 650b as it seems to convert nicely to it?

pastey_boy

After a long hibernation, this bike should be sorted in the next few days.

pastey_boy

All sorted, hopefully get to test her out at Whinlatter on Sunday.

arthur_scrimshaw

Ooh that's nice!

CitizenLee

Now that looks like a lot of fun!

buddy_club

Looks good but the pictures leave a little to be admired....

pastey_boy

buddy_club wrote:

Looks good but the pictures leave a little to be admired....

I know the pics are terrible, will take proper ones when I have figured out why my phone is suddenly useless as a camera. Bike looks a lot better in the flesh.

pastey_boy

Here she is in her element. Loving the bike since the re-build, was going to sell but decided to keep it.

MysticWolf

Nice Bike.. well Done !!

fizik

I am guessing you haven't bottomed out the shock yet? Longer stroke is almost certainly going to make the rear tire rub the seat tube if using anything other than XC tyres, iirc this is common on prophets with standard shocks using the fr position. Also be careful about running a 160mm fork, a friend snapped his headtube clean off riding the same. I think the mx version with the bolt thru rear axle was updated for this. Nice bike though, always liked them.

pastey_boy

fizik wrote:

I am guessing you haven't bottomed out the shock yet? Longer stroke is almost certainly going to make the rear tire rub the seat tube if using anything other than XC tyres, iirc this is common on prophets with standard shocks using the fr position. Also be careful about running a 160mm fork, a friend snapped his headtube clean off riding the same. I think the mx version with the bolt thru rear axle was updated for this. Nice bike though, always liked them.

Checked for this when i built the bike, I deflated the shock in the slacker Fr position and fully compressed the shock, there is around just under a centimetre of clearance with the 2.3inch tyres fitted as seen in the pic. As for the longer forks The original Cannondale headset had a 25mm lower stack height so with the 140mm Pikes I had fitted the overall difference is less than 10mm with the Fox 34 160mm fitted. You mate must have been unlucky to rip his headtube off as it is huge and has lots of weld.

boyreid

Nice looking ride. I've got meself an old prophet frame to build up while i get over a long list of injuries and am looking to update the old Radium shock - how do you find the RP23 compared to the Roco? What compression / rebound tune does the RP23 have?