Cannondale Caad 8 Year

Could have lived with all these bikes except the merida which had a vey harsh ride.

Cannondale caad 8 year. Bike of the year. Widely regarded as the bike industry s leading innovator of game changing technologies cannondale and its handcrafted bicycles continue to innovate across mountain road and electric bikes. Caad8 is built of a lesser quality aluminum than the caad10 and the tubes are not hydroformed mechanically shaped. Fitting since aluminum is the 13th element.

Location of the bar coded serial number sticker. Once you have located your serial number you can register your bike directly through the link below. Modern cannondale bikes feature the bicycle s serial number on the underside of the frame. Is there any other reaseon other than the latest and greatest to buy the caad 10.

I realize that the caad10 is lighter but being 6 2 and 250 i don t really see that as an advantage. 2016 at 8 00 am. Tested it against the giant defy 1 merida race lite 904 cannondale synapse trek 2 1. Some other things have evolved over the last few decades too such as the cannondale developed bb30 bottom bracket which serves to emphasise the caad 8 s super sharp ride in the saddle or out.

Bike of the week. When other brands moved away from alloy cannondale persistently refined its caad range and it s paid off. I am looking to get back to my old ways of about 150 miles a week for exercise. It s the most advanced best performing alloy race bike ever made.

For nearly four decades our caad bikes have set the standard for high performance aluminum frames and the caad13 is the best one yet. The bicycle s serial number will be accompanied by a bar code. There is a dealer near me that has a caad 8 5 and a caad 10 5 left over from last year. Cannondale marketed subsequent frames with the caad designation for cannondale advanced aluminum design which first appeared in their mountain bike frame series.

In the end it came down to the caad 8 the trek 2 1 which i found very similar but settled on the cannondale due to its sharp handling and great looks. The same year the 1 25 sub one all aluminum fork was introduced. Cannondale has always been renowned for their fat tubed and smoothly welded aluminum frames and the caad 8 was until a few years ago the cannondale s top end race offering.