Is the Cannondale F800 with Headshok a good bike for a RestoMod project?
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- I found a Vintage Cannondale F800 bike on marketplace.
What should I do with it?
1- Restore it to its original state?
2- Do a Neo-Retro build with modern components.
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I sold 2000-2008 bicycles, Cannondale had sometimes installed different cranks on the same model, it was purely a matter of luck which one they got in the box
Very relatable and basically my midlife crisis with vintage bikes. For me I’m keeping them relatively stock. Changing bars for more comfort. Stuff like that
That's what i've changed on my F800, too.. The stock bars have no rise and are so low I feel like toppling over.
Man wouldn't that be the coolest story if a young Andreas actually saw this bike in the shop and now he owns it, love that sort of stuff. I'm still looking for my Klein Attitude Team USA that a 15 year old me lusted after in 1990.
I hope you find it! Thanks for watching!
New tires
New saddle and seat post
Modern bars
Deep clean + Couple paint touch up
1x 9/10
Cool wheels… maybe?
My first of at least 7 from Gen 2 Cannondale was the caad 2 in the same race color scheme Cannondale turned it in to a street fighter with 2.0 City slickers. I now ride a yellow caad3 you might have noticed that it is the first gen to have disk mounts
Thanks for watching! Nice to know!
Very cool find. That is a very decent bike. Some food for thought, I've got a 95 F1000 and IMO the original geometry on these is terrible. I went with a much shorter riser stem and wide riser bars and it's much more controllable and just plain better to ride .
@@haqitman hey! Thanks for watching. I agree, the 140mm stock stem made the bike terrible to handle. But that’s how things were back then.
@@AndreasIhm mine had a 150 which I swapped out for a 105 with 30 deg rise. Better, but shorter would be even better 😀
Ah, t'es francophone! I thought I caught a hint of the Quebec accent. :) I grew up à Touraine (Gatineau). Nice video, man! Salût!
(edit: Those are great brakes! I have a set with Ritchey Logic pads... CRAZY stopping power)
From what I see, the frame and fork have tabs for post mount discs. So I would at least convert to disc brakes. Dropper post maybe? Is there enough clearance for 700c wheels or 650b wheels?
1x11 with faaaaaaaaat rubber and wide bar
They are so iconic that i would rather keep as many of them as stock as possible.
Cool bike to find! I remember those coming out. My amazing ebay find was a Cannondale r200 road bike which I got for £200 about 5 years ago. It's not an interesting or transformative bike like the F800, but it was the bike in the window of a bike shop I used to walk past as a student in the late 90s and absolutely lust over - modern equivalent would be a Synapse aluminium I guess. There were loads of cool bikes there but they were super expensive, like going in now and seeing supersix evo, systemsix, topstone lefty, etc. This seemed like a cool bike I might reasonably afford once I got a job, but by that time it was discontinued (I got a lovely custom Raleigh instead). Anyway, maybe you'll get some inspiration from Ali Clarkson turning his F800 into a gravel(ish) bike - ua-cam.com/video/Gc_5U3ZG86Y/v-deo.html
Thank you! And thanks for watching
My vote...: SINGLE SPEED MONSTER CROSS!!!!
I have this same bike what bottom bracket can I use? Any idea.
It's Octalink