Wow, we have no idea how you find these masterpieces. We remember the cannondale bikes like these. Never owned one but we did envy over the brand back then. You create magic 🎩 ✨️ thank you for sharing. See ya soon.
This was being tossed for junk actually! It was a total nightmare haha its just hard to see on camera, but it was filthy too! I am almost done with it now though, it's looking NICE and fresh...cleaned right up! Coming soon!
You said it my man! I'm all about saving the stuff heading to the dump too! New video comes out today, I'm about 80% done and about to get back on it now! I was shooting to have it done yesterday but I'm trying hard to make them longer with more quality footage, so it's alot of filming and editing work haha.
I have an 87 that was built with a full Shimano 600 groupset 52/42 x 12-23 . I just rebuilt it with Shimano 105 5700 10spd drivetrain 11-28 w/ 105 7000 compact crank 50/34, Shimano 6700 shifter/ brake levers, brakes were updated to Ultegra 6700. Because the original Matrix wheels had 600 hubs with 7spd "Uniglide" cassette I replaced them with Mavic CXP Elite w/ 105 7000 hubs. I replaced the heavy seat/ post with Ritchey lite post and Selle Itallia saddle. Handle bar was replaced with a 44cm 6061 double butted drop bar. It rides like new, and feels much stiffer and more responsive than my 2012 road bike. I'm still waiting on a new carbon fork. The weight started A 22lbs it now weighs 20lb 6oz. After carbon fork it should come in under 20lbs
Thanks for the comment, please subscribe if you haven't already! Thanks for the support! That is an awesome platform you got! I actually have a video on a similar 1991 SR600 that had full Shimano 600 too! Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/8aN84jO0oNQ/v-deo.html Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/qMnvmlq1wFE/v-deo.html Your build is awesome though, well done! I love seeing old bikes get all the new technology!! I just weighed the stock fork btw and it weighs a HEFTY 720 grams! A carbon fork rides much smoother but definitely drops off a ton of weight too. Always nice to take big weight off the cockpit area! I'm a huge fan of the 5700 and have a video on doing shift cables for them too haha! The 6700 brakes are nice touch, the ice gray is an awesome color! Lastly you can refurbish those old wheels so I hope you kept them! ua-cam.com/video/lOvO4QTaM3c/v-deo.html Here is a video I did where I converted the exact same Shimano 600 hub from the aforementioned Cannondale, went from 7 speed freehub to fit a 8/9/10spd freehub! It's super cheap and easy, plus there is a good chance your original wheels would be lighter!!
@@D2WrenchWorksDIY I watched that vid when I first thought about upgrading. I ordered a freehub that arrived yesterday. I actually had the same color SR600 frame in the Cosmic Back and pink. I had planned to build it up before I bought the 87 cheap. I ended up selling that frame for 2x what I paid. Searching Cannondale SR600 is what lead me to your channel.
Oh wow that is really cool to hear! That colorway is very cool, glad to hear you made some money on it to help pay for your new build! That's EXACTLY what this channel is about haha! Glad to hear you are already rebuilding your old wheels with a new freehub too! Thanks again for subscribing, glad to have you aboard!
OMG! My first new nice road bike was an SR500! It was gray with pink lettering. I loved that bike. I occasionally find one for sale in my size and I always want to buy it so badly.
That is so funny I actually did a similar SR600 much like that! You should pick one up and do a fun budget build! You can checkout that video here; Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/8aN84jO0oNQ/v-deo.html & Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/qMnvmlq1wFE/v-deo.html
Thanks for the comment Michael I totally agree! I am on a Cannondale tear of everything my size lately, I got two more coming soon! The Cannondale logo here is not a farmhouse but actually a train station! Cannondale Metro North to be exact, they named it the company after it actually! Pretty cool history!
I didn’t k ow of that alternative logo…interesting factoid I’m lucky to have (2) 3.0 frames I’m not sure if Cannondale made half sizes…but one is about a 54cm and the other is a 53ish….both have the long/overhanging rear dropouts …the slightly larger frame is a two tone white/blue Campagnolo frame with a semi-polished SAKAE fork…and the smaller one is a blue fade paint scheme with a matching paint SAKAE fork…a very nice addition to that frame These frames will hold their value and then some with original equipment/group sets/wheels
Hi again Michael, sorry this got buried in my comments! The Train station logo is their original logo which they used until 1990. It definitely looks like a little farmhouse but if you look the left of the Train station you will see the tracks! Also if you google "Metro North Cannondale" you'll find this exact logo of a little tiny train station in red located in Wilton, CT. This is where the Cannondale Headquarters originated and also where they got their name from as well.
Thanks for the comment, please take a moment to subscribe to my channel! Changing shifters gives you a much more comfortable riding position as well as the ability to shift without taking hands off handlebars. It's a great way to modernize an old bike like this, and it's worth it!
Hi al, great question! The SR version meant "Sport Road" for the Cannondale road bikes, because they also offered a SC "Sport Criterium" which had a more aggressive geometry, as they were meant for criterium races. Pretty fun to do if you find one locally! As Cannondale moves away from the Criterium bikes they make "Silk Road" gravel style bikes with headshok forks. Those become the new SR500 bikes/etc and the road bikes are plain R500. I went back and looked through the Cannondale catalogs and they officially made the last SR road bike in 1991. From 1992 on they are R500 and so on. The touring bikes Cannondale sells is also switched from ST to T.
Many of the early Cdales were "bowed"... the drop outs were aligned... more or less.... but the frame would "bow" from being overheated. They were also subject to cracking... hence the popular euphemism- "crack and fail". I grew up about 25 miles from the Cdale factory. When I wanted my first road bike at 16, my uncles girlfriend who worked at Cdale offered to get me "back door bike" but I felt I needed to buy from a local shop for service. I ended up with a Schwinn Tempo, that carried me to victory in a few local tris and suffered many crashes as I learned to road race. Since my unk's girl was hot she probably could have got me a Dura Ace Cdale for less than my Tempo. Youth is stupid.
I haven't heard about the early frames getting too hot causing cracks, but I would think they avoided that with their advanced two-pass welding technique to get the welds so smooth. Dirt magazine did an amazing article on it back in the day that is worth a read! Actually I found the OG article with the wayback machine, I'll add link at the end. When I first got started, all the talk of "crack n' fail" was on the vertical dropout bikes Cannondale switched to briefly in the mid 90s. This is how meme's were made before the internet, if you ask me lol. Honestly I've worked on tons of these older 80s/90s Cannondale's with traditional dropouts & vertical too, but I've never seen the issue myself. Very cool to hear about your Schwinn Tempo! My first real bike was a Schwinn & I actually started the channel on a old school Schwinn MTB! To add to it, I have a slightly lesser version of your Schwinn coming up soon.....a $20 budget buy, Schwinn Premis! web.archive.org/web/20080221200621/www.dirtragmag.com/web/article.php?ID=831
You mention Cannondale didn't sand welds, please search for the Cannondale Made in USA on UA-cam, the bit you really need is 6 minutes in, though the who vid is good Cannondale 97 is better! Cheers for the content.
Hi Lawrence! Thanks for the comment, please subscribe if you haven't already, I appreciate the support! My mentioning of this goes back to another Cannondale SR600 I rebuilt for the channel, where I used the wayback machine to reference a dirtrag magazine article of them touring the actual facility back then. Do you have a link to the videos you are referring to, I'd be happy to check them out!
Im such and idiot. I thought my cannondale was a 1990 until you said how to read the number on the chainstay. My bike was born in 1988 and turned 35 years old 9 days ago.
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Wow, we have no idea how you find these masterpieces. We remember the cannondale bikes like these. Never owned one but we did envy over the brand back then. You create magic 🎩 ✨️ thank you for sharing. See ya soon.
This was being tossed for junk actually! It was a total nightmare haha its just hard to see on camera, but it was filthy too! I am almost done with it now though, it's looking NICE and fresh...cleaned right up! Coming soon!
@@D2WrenchWorksDIY ones trash is anothers treasure. We will be looking out for the updates
You said it my man! I'm all about saving the stuff heading to the dump too! New video comes out today, I'm about 80% done and about to get back on it now! I was shooting to have it done yesterday but I'm trying hard to make them longer with more quality footage, so it's alot of filming and editing work haha.
I just found this identical bike, same wheels everything, just a different color ($40). Can't wait to see what you do
Hi Timothy thanks for the comment and please take a moment to subscribe! Congrats on your new bike man, that's a smoking deal!
I have an 87 that was built with a full Shimano 600 groupset 52/42 x 12-23 . I just rebuilt it with Shimano 105 5700 10spd drivetrain 11-28 w/ 105 7000 compact crank 50/34, Shimano 6700 shifter/ brake levers, brakes were updated to Ultegra 6700. Because the original Matrix wheels had 600 hubs with 7spd "Uniglide" cassette I replaced them with Mavic CXP Elite w/ 105 7000 hubs. I replaced the heavy seat/ post with Ritchey lite post and Selle Itallia saddle. Handle bar was replaced with a 44cm 6061 double butted drop bar. It rides like new, and feels much stiffer and more responsive than my 2012 road bike. I'm still waiting on a new carbon fork. The weight started A 22lbs it now weighs 20lb 6oz. After carbon fork it should come in under 20lbs
Thanks for the comment, please subscribe if you haven't already! Thanks for the support! That is an awesome platform you got! I actually have a video on a similar 1991 SR600 that had full Shimano 600 too!
Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/8aN84jO0oNQ/v-deo.html
Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/qMnvmlq1wFE/v-deo.html
Your build is awesome though, well done! I love seeing old bikes get all the new technology!! I just weighed the stock fork btw and it weighs a HEFTY 720 grams! A carbon fork rides much smoother but definitely drops off a ton of weight too. Always nice to take big weight off the cockpit area! I'm a huge fan of the 5700 and have a video on doing shift cables for them too haha! The 6700 brakes are nice touch, the ice gray is an awesome color! Lastly you can refurbish those old wheels so I hope you kept them! ua-cam.com/video/lOvO4QTaM3c/v-deo.html Here is a video I did where I converted the exact same Shimano 600 hub from the aforementioned Cannondale, went from 7 speed freehub to fit a 8/9/10spd freehub! It's super cheap and easy, plus there is a good chance your original wheels would be lighter!!
@@D2WrenchWorksDIY I watched that vid when I first thought about upgrading. I ordered a freehub that arrived yesterday. I actually had the same color SR600 frame in the Cosmic Back and pink. I had planned to build it up before I bought the 87 cheap. I ended up selling that frame for 2x what I paid. Searching Cannondale SR600 is what lead me to your channel.
Oh wow that is really cool to hear! That colorway is very cool, glad to hear you made some money on it to help pay for your new build! That's EXACTLY what this channel is about haha! Glad to hear you are already rebuilding your old wheels with a new freehub too! Thanks again for subscribing, glad to have you aboard!
OMG! My first new nice road bike was an SR500! It was gray with pink lettering. I loved that bike. I occasionally find one for sale in my size and I always want to buy it so badly.
That is so funny I actually did a similar SR600 much like that! You should pick one up and do a fun budget build! You can checkout that video here; Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/8aN84jO0oNQ/v-deo.html & Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/qMnvmlq1wFE/v-deo.html
I’m watching this video after purchasing a gray with pink lettering sr500!
@@robstukenborg8482 WHAT!!! Please post a video of it! I've always regretted selling it.
@@DaveCM I’ll post a video or link to a picture when I get to working on it. Paint is still beautiful after all this time
Just uploaded a short
GREAT! piece 👍
Thanks Dani! Part 2 is coming out soon too!
Very nice frame with the old farmhouse brand logo on the head tube…and it’s in my size…53/54cm
Thanks for the comment Michael I totally agree! I am on a Cannondale tear of everything my size lately, I got two more coming soon! The Cannondale logo here is not a farmhouse but actually a train station! Cannondale Metro North to be exact, they named it the company after it actually! Pretty cool history!
I didn’t k ow of that alternative logo…interesting factoid
I’m lucky to have (2) 3.0 frames
I’m not sure if Cannondale made half sizes…but one is about a 54cm and the other is a 53ish….both have the long/overhanging rear dropouts …the slightly larger frame is a two tone white/blue Campagnolo frame with a semi-polished SAKAE fork…and the smaller one is a blue fade paint scheme with a matching paint SAKAE fork…a very nice addition to that frame
These frames will hold their value and then some with original equipment/group sets/wheels
Wait was there ever a farmhouse logo?
Hi again Michael, sorry this got buried in my comments! The Train station logo is their original logo which they used until 1990. It definitely looks like a little farmhouse but if you look the left of the Train station you will see the tracks! Also if you google "Metro North Cannondale" you'll find this exact logo of a little tiny train station in red located in Wilton, CT. This is where the Cannondale Headquarters originated and also where they got their name from as well.
Should I change shifters?
Thanks for the comment, please take a moment to subscribe to my channel! Changing shifters gives you a much more comfortable riding position as well as the ability to shift without taking hands off handlebars. It's a great way to modernize an old bike like this, and it's worth it!
What's the difference between the sr500 and the r500?
The SR series were the 1st generation aluminum frames. The R series were used when Cannondale started with the CAAD 4 frames I believe.
Hi al, great question! The SR version meant "Sport Road" for the Cannondale road bikes, because they also offered a SC "Sport Criterium" which had a more aggressive geometry, as they were meant for criterium races. Pretty fun to do if you find one locally! As Cannondale moves away from the Criterium bikes they make "Silk Road" gravel style bikes with headshok forks. Those become the new SR500 bikes/etc and the road bikes are plain R500. I went back and looked through the Cannondale catalogs and they officially made the last SR road bike in 1991. From 1992 on they are R500 and so on. The touring bikes Cannondale sells is also switched from ST to T.
Many of the early Cdales were "bowed"... the drop outs were aligned... more or less.... but the frame would "bow" from being overheated. They were also subject to cracking... hence the popular euphemism- "crack and fail". I grew up about 25 miles from the Cdale factory. When I wanted my first road bike at 16, my uncles girlfriend who worked at Cdale offered to get me "back door bike" but I felt I needed to buy from a local shop for service. I ended up with a Schwinn Tempo, that carried me to victory in a few local tris and suffered many crashes as I learned to road race. Since my unk's girl was hot she probably could have got me a Dura Ace Cdale for less than my Tempo. Youth is stupid.
I haven't heard about the early frames getting too hot causing cracks, but I would think they avoided that with their advanced two-pass welding technique to get the welds so smooth. Dirt magazine did an amazing article on it back in the day that is worth a read! Actually I found the OG article with the wayback machine, I'll add link at the end. When I first got started, all the talk of "crack n' fail" was on the vertical dropout bikes Cannondale switched to briefly in the mid 90s. This is how meme's were made before the internet, if you ask me lol. Honestly I've worked on tons of these older 80s/90s Cannondale's with traditional dropouts & vertical too, but I've never seen the issue myself. Very cool to hear about your Schwinn Tempo! My first real bike was a Schwinn & I actually started the channel on a old school Schwinn MTB! To add to it, I have a slightly lesser version of your Schwinn coming up soon.....a $20 budget buy, Schwinn Premis! web.archive.org/web/20080221200621/www.dirtragmag.com/web/article.php?ID=831
You mention Cannondale didn't sand welds, please search for the Cannondale Made in USA on UA-cam, the bit you really need is 6 minutes in, though the who vid is good Cannondale 97 is better! Cheers for the content.
Hi Lawrence! Thanks for the comment, please subscribe if you haven't already, I appreciate the support! My mentioning of this goes back to another Cannondale SR600 I rebuilt for the channel, where I used the wayback machine to reference a dirtrag magazine article of them touring the actual facility back then. Do you have a link to the videos you are referring to, I'd be happy to check them out!
@@D2WrenchWorksDIY ua-cam.com/video/o_2R-HFKQWg/v-deo.html
@@D2WrenchWorksDIY ua-cam.com/video/cKacAwnAv5g/v-deo.html
Im such and idiot. I thought my cannondale was a 1990 until you said how to read the number on the chainstay. My bike was born in 1988 and turned 35 years old 9 days ago.
Nice man, here's to another 35 years! Please take a moment to subscribe if you haven't already!