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The organization was founded in 1971 by Joe Montgomery, Jim Catrambone and Ron Davis to fabricate backpacks and bags for camping and later on bike trailers for bike touring. One of the most successful products was the Bugger, a kid trailer, although Cannondale's marketing department seemed not aware of the connotations of the name in British English some were, nevertheless, exported for the UK. Today, Cannondale produces many different types of high-end bicycles, number of which are handmade in USA, focusing on aluminum (as opposed to steel or titanium) and graphite frames, a technology in which these were pioneers. The name of the company was extracted from the Cannondale Metro North stop in Wilton, Connecticut.
Bicycle Framesets
[http://www.carbonbicyclewheelreview.com/category/carbon-frames-for-sale/cannondale/ Cannondale] began making aluminum racing and touring frames in 1983, with mtb frames added later. The sooner models sported oversized aluminum tubes for increased stiffness, leading to frames which were super-stiff and super-efficient. Later, graphite composite frames were developed.
Cannondale's pedal bike frame components were made in its factory in Bedford, Pennsylvania, but you are now made in factories in Taiwan and Vietnam with respect to the model of bike.
In '09, Dorel Industries declared it was moving most of Cannondale's bike manufacturing to an alternative plant in Taichung, Taiwan by the end of 2010. Some non-bicycle making jobs will continue to be in Bedford, including final assembly and testing. A fresh customer care call center is planned in Bedford, also.

Carbon frames
2004 witnessed the launch of Cannondale's Six13, a composite carbon/alloy frame that featured an alloy head tube, staysets, and bottom bracket junction mechanically and chemically bonded to carbon seat, down, and top tubes. This is the business's first usage of structural carbon composite material, and subsequent variants from the Six13 used 1-3 carbon tubes with regards to the price from the model and the model year. Later, the Six13 line was expanded to include the Slice triathlon/time trial bike which employed similar alloy/carbon joinery with aerodynamically tapered tubes.
In 2005, Cannondale announced its first all-carbon frame: the "Synapse." At the time, Cannondale lacked the stateside facilities necessary to produce this kind of frame.
Cannondale's SystemSix, which debuted in 2007, represented a more committed embrace of structural carbon compared to the company's previous flagship roadbike, the Six13. The newest bike's entire front triangle, such as the oversized asymmetrical head tube, was fabricated from graphite. Furthermore, Cannondale's Pennsylvania factory was upgraded with carbon storage, cutting, and layup equipment in order to prepare their workers and physical plant for your SystemSix's more complex carbon assemblies.
The brand new equipment also provided the infrastructure needed to produce full carbon frames, which debuted on the SuperSix race bike.
At the time of 2008, Cannondale's carbon/alloy road frames range from the Six13 and also the SystemSix. The business's full carbon road offerings include several variants from the Synapse and also the SuperSix, Cannondale's first U.S. manufactured carbon road model. The usage of the numbers 6 and 13 inside the model names is in reference to the atomic variety of carbon and aluminum, the types of materials used to result in the frames.
Cannondale offers several carbon variants of the hardtail and full suspension mountain bikes.
Cannondale in addition has developed a suspension fork referred to as Lefty. It started using the "Headshok" (aka "Fatty") forks. It uses 88 needle bearings to lessen friction for smooth travel using the bearings telescoping within the steerer tube from the fork. This eliminates flexing from the fork legs as well as eliminates static friction, which has to be overcome before the fork starts to travel.
The "Lefty" is an unusual looking fork as it just has a left side or blade. It uses the identical technology as the Headshok, but wish to have larger amounts of travel resulted in the movement with the telescoping unit off to the medial side allowing room for the travel. It also allowed for additional mud clearance as opposed to traditional forks designs. The Lefty is currently seen on lots of Cannondale's high-end models, including all of the Scalpels, Rizes, and the expensive models in F series, both cross-country lines. Continual efforts at weight reduction have provided models using a carbon fibre upper tube along with a titanium spindle. The titanium spindle was later substituted with a lighter and stiffer forged aluminum version. The graphite upper continues to be utilized on the best end
Cannondale has since made this a free international standard called BB30. In BB30, the diameter with the bottom bracket spindle is increased from the standard 24mm to 30mm. Because of this the inside diameter of the bottom bracket shell is increased to 42mm. This enables a reduction in weight by permitting aluminum to be used like a spindle material instead of the more traditional steel. The greater spindle as well as the larger bottom bracket shell make for increased stiffness of the frame and crankset. Perhaps the biggest difference between the BB30 standard and more traditional bottom brackets will be the usage of pressed-in bearings instead of cartridge or cup bearings. The lack of threads or extra "packaging" creates excess weight savings. As a result of "press fit" needed to support the bearings, tighter plus more precise machining tolerances are required. One disadvantage BB30 is the harder-to-service nature presented by pressed-in bearings. Another is there are just a few BB30 cranksets available to consumers, that are usually high-end.
Around the mountain biking circuit, Cannondale is a sponsor for your Cannondale-Vredestein (formerly Volvo/Cannondale) racing team, the Bear Naked/Cannondale racing team (formerly SoBe/Cannondale) and various individual 24-hour racers such as Bicycling Hall of Famer and US National 24 hour Champion Tinker Juarez. A lot of notable riders happen to be sponsored by Cannondale in the course of their career, including world champions Anne-Caroline Chausson and Missy Giove, Olympic Silver medalist (and World Champion) Alison Sydor, Bronze medalist Christoph Sauser, "Flyin" Brian Lopes, Cadel Evans, Kashi Leuchs, Libor "The Bouncing Czech" Karas, Martyn Ashton, Lance Trappe, Aaron Chase, Myles Rockwell, Cédric Gracia, Roel Paulissen, Fredrik Kessiakoff, and Chris Van Dine, who rides for your Cannondale Cut team and demos watch team.

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