flownosaj
Flashlight Enthusiast
Long post, but it goes to illustrate what CPF can do for a guy like me when it doesn't even deal with flashlights.
With all the conversation in the advice on MTBs, I began to think about riding again. I've had my Trek Singletrack up on the garage wall, but seeing that thread got me thinking. It's so hot here in TX that I haven't ridden since we moved here two years ago, but now Fall is here.
I talked to a colleague of mine and she suggested that since I've got the MTB, how about doing some "road biking" for a while. I stopped at the local bike dealer (thanks for pointing me in that direction guys) last night to see what he had in stock and he told me that a touring bike would be the ticket. He just happened to have one in my size at the shop next town over. A Cannondale no less.
I stop there this afternoon on my way home and they take me in the back and bring the bike down off the rack. I rode it around and liked it and asked the price. The mechanic calls the "boss-man" here in Killeen and tells him that I was the guy from last night that came to look at the Cannondale.
Boss-man says $200! The mechanic kept asking, "you're taking about the Cannondale tourer, right?" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Now I know diddly about road bikes, and I believe that it's a '98-99 but this thing is a Cannondale T600 touring bike in great condition and has Exiage 400 LX derailleurs and Diacompe 986 cantilever brakes. I figured that I better take it before he realized he quoted the price on the wrong one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif I mean, the Cannondale name alone means it was probably 3-4 times that amount new...
I'm planning on looking this model up tonight after dinner. Someone out there have one and can tell me about it? Any immediate upgrades (other than trip computer, already have a good one) I can do? I already think I may want to do the brakes, but I've got to take it out later this evening to see what I think.
Yeah, I would have liked a fanicer one with all the primo stuff, but I'm happy /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
With all the conversation in the advice on MTBs, I began to think about riding again. I've had my Trek Singletrack up on the garage wall, but seeing that thread got me thinking. It's so hot here in TX that I haven't ridden since we moved here two years ago, but now Fall is here.
I talked to a colleague of mine and she suggested that since I've got the MTB, how about doing some "road biking" for a while. I stopped at the local bike dealer (thanks for pointing me in that direction guys) last night to see what he had in stock and he told me that a touring bike would be the ticket. He just happened to have one in my size at the shop next town over. A Cannondale no less.
I stop there this afternoon on my way home and they take me in the back and bring the bike down off the rack. I rode it around and liked it and asked the price. The mechanic calls the "boss-man" here in Killeen and tells him that I was the guy from last night that came to look at the Cannondale.
Boss-man says $200! The mechanic kept asking, "you're taking about the Cannondale tourer, right?" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Now I know diddly about road bikes, and I believe that it's a '98-99 but this thing is a Cannondale T600 touring bike in great condition and has Exiage 400 LX derailleurs and Diacompe 986 cantilever brakes. I figured that I better take it before he realized he quoted the price on the wrong one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif I mean, the Cannondale name alone means it was probably 3-4 times that amount new...
I'm planning on looking this model up tonight after dinner. Someone out there have one and can tell me about it? Any immediate upgrades (other than trip computer, already have a good one) I can do? I already think I may want to do the brakes, but I've got to take it out later this evening to see what I think.
Yeah, I would have liked a fanicer one with all the primo stuff, but I'm happy /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif