Debassige
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I don't know if there is any ettiqutte for a first post or not, I'm just a genuinely curious person and this seems the best place to get the info I crave
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Just looking for model and year
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I don't know if there is any ettiqutte for a first post or not, I'm just a genuinely curious person and this seems the best place to get the info I crave
Pretty sure it's been repainted. 26" wheels front and rear? Have a look for the serial number on the underside of chainstay or seatstay. 6 speed XT? Model number on the crank? Dia-Compe U brakes front and rear? That's unusual, front cantilever and rear U brake was the usual setup.
Looks to be a 1988 model, the 42nd frame produced on April 14th. Beyond that the components will be the best clues to fix the model. I believe that the only 1988 24"/26" model was the SM600. Check out the 1988 catalog and see if any of your components are a match.
Debassige
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So this is what I got.
Started tearing everything down.
Looks to be 87 SM600.
Has been resprayed, but done well, CANNONDALE is hand painted, old paint was completely stripped but found 2 spots where there is hot pink, was this only on the SM800?
Looks like a mish-mash of components but mostly Shimano, so thinking SM600.
Debating whether to repaint pink or leave as is, could it have been a factory custom paint job?
Oh well, at least I have a basic idea what I have
Does it have the Sugino crank or Shimano? I think the pink only appeared on 1987 frames and wasn't used again until after Simoni won the Giro for Saeco team in 2003. To me it's the iconic color for 1987 Cannondales. Someone in the marketing department must have liked it because pink bikes appear in the 1988 and 1989 catalogs even though the color was no longer used. My guess is that your bike was originally an SM800 but you could rebuild it to any model you choose as the frames differ only in paint, at least the upper models. SM800 would have had the better (chrome-moly) Tange fork which also came on the SM900. I don't know how to tell the forks apart but Brian may. I think he has reproduction decals in the works for 1987 frames.
If it has a 24" rear, I would think it is a 1988 made in 87. I think you may have a 88 SM600. The black one:
https://vintagecannondale.com/year/1988/1988.pdf
the reason is the fork.. 87's had a different fork. I would match up each part. We know the brakes, rims, headset and stem are not original. Maybe all parts..
It depends on what you want to do with it. I would do a re-paint.. and, that decal needs to go. haha
https://shop.vintagecannondale.com/products/1987-1988-cannondale-decal
https://vintagecannondale.com/year/1988/1988.pdf
the reason is the fork.. 87's had a different fork. I would match up each part. We know the brakes, rims, headset and stem are not original. Maybe all parts..
It depends on what you want to do with it. I would do a re-paint.. and, that decal needs to go. haha
https://shop.vintagecannondale.com/products/1987-1988-cannondale-decal