New member from Long Island, NY

[David Velez]

So I recently purchased a 2002 F1000 “Full Wood” edition. It’s all original nothing has been changed on the bike. It looks as if it was ridden only a few times and put away. The only issue is the decals are scratched in a few places. I haven’t been able find replacement’s.

 

[JohnnyD]

Welcome, great looking bike. From what I see in the pictures you don't need to worry about replacing the decals either, which I doubt you could ever find except for the standard paint job decal sets anyway. I'd just keep it as it is.. a real survivor!

 

[David Velez]

Welcome, great looking bike. From what I see in the pictures you don't need to worry about replacing the decals either, which I doubt you could ever find except for the standard paint job decal sets anyway. I'd just keep it as it is.. a real survivor!

Thank you John, I can’t believe how original it is the tires still have the nipples on them lol. I almost want to store the original parts so they don’t get ruined.

 

[JohnnyD]

Speaking as someone who has a mostly original parts '92 M700, I would just leave it alone as is and ride it. Unless your riding style is very aggressive you'll find the bike more than capable for light cross country and trail use. Now if you want to go all out and do crazy black and double black trail rides.. well I would suggest you not use the bike for that. As much as I do not like the "cookie cutter" styling of the modern bikes, the are much more capable than a 20 yr old F1000. Regardless, you have a great looking Cannondale that I hope makes it another 20 years.

 

[David Velez]

Do you by any chance know how many of this model were produced? I haven’t seen another one.

 

[JohnnyD]

I wish I knew how many. I've never been able to find any data on total production of any Cannondale models. Something tells me that after Cannondale was sold and production moved to Taiwan after 2010 that all that information disappeared, if it ever existed. That being said, I doubt that there were a lot of them produced in that color scheme. So hold on to it.