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Used to use this as a commuter bike but sat in the shed for about 10 years. Grips and saddle had melted, but pumped up the tyres and they held air. Forks were seized so pulled them apart and lubed them and inflated them. Once I put them back together properly they stopped squirting oil all over the deck. Lubed the chain. Gear cables are pretty stiff, but it did actually change gear. Took it for a ride. It was exactly as horrible to ride as I remember. Truly terrible bike.
Quite apt it’s got a blind person’s stick hanging off the back!
Someone will buy it on retrobike
stick it on FB market place for £500 like everyone else
I'm sure the god awful forks have nothing to do with it.
stick it on FB market place for £500 like everyone else
I'm kind fond of it, it's by far the worst bike I've ever owned and I respect it for that. I think I tried riding it off-road twice and it was terrifying. At least now that the fork oil lubed the brakes they don't squeal like a pig being raped by an elephant any more.
Weren't these designed around the rigid pepperoni fork, or at most a very short travel low-stack headshock. Jack any bikes front up 8-10cm higher than intended and yep I'm sure it'll handle like a pig. Back in the day these were good bikes, though I preferred the traditional double diamond M600 type frame which I ran for about a decade both rigid and forked (but not as long as that) - this 'killer V' style was incredibly sharp handling with its brutally stiff front end, bit too much...
Stick a low fork and low stem/bar setup on it and it'd make a good gravel bike, you could store sandwiches in the front section...
I’m sure the god awful forks have nothing to do with it.
They were a major improvement over the originals, which were RockShox Indys. Problem is, putting better forks on just highlighted how horrible the rest of it was so it actually made it worse on a holistic level.
worse on a holistic level
Pardon...? Do you work in Marketing perchance? 😕
better forks
Subjective in this case.
Do you work in Marketing perchance?
or a detective agency?
Send that to Bike Vault Dirt Shed Show on GMBN. Its a Cannondale and will get in by default 😉
https://www.gmbn.com/category/the-dirt-shed-show
Love the Douglas Adams reference.
I still have a soft spot for these frames… do yours a favour, put some rigid forks and semi-slicks on it, and take it for a canal path based pub crawl.
Forks way to long makes bike feel Shit shock
From what I remember, the 'Killer' V was designed to only run a rigid fork...it was the later 'Delta' V that shared the too-many-triangles frame but that was suspension corrected...the seat angle is a bit of a giveaway. Get her slammed on the front and I bet she'll be right. Oh and please remove that appendage on the chainstay, it looks like it belongs on the front of a Dalek.
Perfectly respectable gravel bike in it’s time (and with proper forks etc)
Why would you (someone?) subject it to such abominifications? 😱
See, how nice is that!
Polished ones are even nicer.
Do you know what... I don't think it looks half bad.... but I have had a skinfull.
Quick, throw it back 😂
I’m respraying a 1993 M2000 frame today. Just for fun.
What you have there is a 1996 killer v with the wishbone rear end and 1 1/8th headtube. These came with P Bone straight forks not the legendary Pepperoni.
If you still have the P Bone fork I’ll happily buy it 🙂
If you still have the P Bone fork I’ll happily buy it
No, unfortunately I got it off an XC racer who used it as a training bike back in the late 90s. It had Rockshox Indy forks when I got it. It was horrible off-road so I replaced it with a Spesh FSR and used it as a commuter bike for a while. I eventually broke the FSR in half, so the forks are off that. I just kept it as a rideable collection of old parts as a reminder of how much better new bikes are. It has XTR 8 speed shift/brake levers (which are fantastically good when the cables are new) and some Azonic double wall riser bars, which seemed really wide back in the day, but comically narrow now, plus the old XT rim brakes with the parallelogram linkage thing, utterly horrible brakes. I was doing a cleanout of my junk parts box and found an old Specialized disk brake adapter and some Avid BBss, so I thought I might be able to kit it out with some disk brakes, but the brake arm won't clear the seatstay.
There is definitely a good bike in there! My first mountain bike was a 93 killer v ( which I still have), it was like a grown up BMX with a pair of Mozo pros up front. I've still a soft spot for old Cannondales, I built one as a weight weenie project shod with 1.5 conti xc's and used it in a cx race, it worked better than my cx bike at the time.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/cannondale-m600.413270/
Here a m600 I built up for fun a while ago. It’s not as good as my Banshee Paradox V3 but it is fun occasionally.
My mate had one in polished aluminium and I was so jealous! Thought it looked amazing. I was on a trek 7000 at the time. You really didn’t have to go fast to feel you were going fast back in those days. Riding my drop bar tourer (a gravel bike nowadays I guess, but it predates such things) down inappropriately steep tracks recently brought all those feelings back...that precarious feeling that if your brakes actually worked you’d be over the bar immediately!
Sorted out the tyres, BB7 disk on the front, GravityDropper and SDG BelAir. Some superwide 700mm riser bars. Now it's perfection on wheels.
I assume the perfection on wheels is just out of shot ?
It'll probably be perfect for not getting nicked, which has got to be worth something, eh?
Killer V! From the 1995 Cannondale catalogue:
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Suspension ready meant for 60mm travel 🙂
Wonder if anyone has one of these lurking at the back of the shed... nice
Always wanted a Cannondale when I was kid. I was present when my brother's pal unboxed a dark green frameset and fork in about 1992, it was beautiful. It was also a replacement for the previous frame that cracked.
There was a kid a few years ago where I used to live who delivered papers on an old Klein, made me feel sad seeing one of my boyhood dream bikes in such a state. Good it was still in use though.