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History

The business was founded in 1971 by Joe Montgomery, Jim Catrambone and Ron Davis to fabricate backpacks and bags for camping and then pedal bike trailers for bike touring. Probably the most successful products was the Bugger, a child trailer, although Cannondale's marketing department seemed unacquainted with the connotations of the name in British English some were, nevertheless, exported for the UK. Today, Cannondale produces various sorts of high-end bicycles, number of which can be hand made in USA, specializing in aluminum (rather than steel or titanium) and carbon fibre frames, a technology where these were pioneers. The specific company was extracted from the Cannondale Metro North train station in Wilton, Connecticut. Cycle Designs Cannondale began developing aluminum racing and touring frames in 1983, with mountain bike frames added later. The sooner models sported oversized aluminum tubes for increased stiffness, leading to frames that were super-stiff and super-efficient. Later, carbon fiber composite frames were developed. Cannondale's cycle frame components were manufactured in its factory in Bedford, Pennsylvania, but they are now manufactured in factories in Taiwan and Vietnam depending on the model of bike. Last year, Dorel Industries said that it absolutely was moving all Cannondale's pedal bike making to a new plant in Taichung, Taiwan in the end of 2010. Some non-bicycle producing jobs will stay in Bedford, including final assembly and testing. A brand new customer service live answering services company is planned in Bedford, also.

Cannondale marketed subsequent frames with the CAAD designation (for "Cannondale Advanced Aluminum Design"). The CAAD4 model introduced S-bend aluminum seat stays for improved comfort. The Six13 model, that was introduced in 2004, uses carbon tube sections in the main triangle but still employs aluminum rear triangles. This arrangement is up against the usual industry practice of using carbon stay inserts and aluminum front triangle tubes. It will also be noted that the Union Cycliste Internationale has generated a 6.8 kg (14.97 lb) minimum weight limit. Cannondale advertised this lightweight frameset with the slogan "Legalize my Cannondale". In reality, just the smallest size (50 cm) of bike actually approached the 6.8 kg limit. Some inside the bike industry considered this to become a creative marketing effort because Six13 frames actually weighed just like or more than competing frames from other manufacturers. The current generation of Cannondale aluminum frame is called CAAD10. CAAD10 will be the continued evolution of Cannondale's welded aluminum frame design. Lefties. The supply of repair and rebuild components and experienced service technicians for Cannondale forks much less expensive widespread than Fox, Manitou and Marzocchi designs. This continues to limit the Lefty to mid and end bikes. Use of a Lefty fork also limits a rider's choice of stem, headset and front wheel, just about forcing them to use Cannondale house brand parts, or Cannondale-specific parts made by another company. Lefty forks will also be only suitable for disc brakes. A few of the benefits of the Lefty fork is it is lighter, laterally more stiff (due to dual crown assembly), as well as requires less maintenance with just one shock. Similarly, Cannondale uses needle bearing as opposed to traditional fork bushings, which allow for further responsive feel, and don't bind under torsional pressures. Another unique trait is unlike a conventional front fork, the lefty allows user to change the interior tube or tire as the wheel still installed on the bike. Cannondale has since made this a free of charge international standard known as BB30. In BB30, the diameter from the bottom bracket spindle is increased in the standard 24mm to 30mm. As a result the interior diameter with the bottom bracket shell is increased to 42mm. This enables a reduction in weight by letting aluminum to be used being a spindle material as opposed to the classical steel. The bigger spindle as well as the larger bottom bracket shell make for increased stiffness of both the frame and crankset. Possibly the biggest distinction between the BB30 standard and much more traditional bottom brackets is the utilization of pressed-in bearings rather than cartridge or cup bearings. Having less threads or extra "packaging" creates excess weight savings. Because of the "press fit" needed to hold the bearings, tighter plus more precise machining tolerances are needed. One disadvantage BB30 may be the harder-to-service nature presented by pressed-in bearings. Another is that we now have just a few BB30 cranksets accessible to consumers, and these are typically high-end. Cannondale has had a few concepts to market who have since become accepted industry standards. Cannondale was the first person to make a crankset which uses externally mounted bottom bracket bearings, though they later discontinued this design. External bearings are now the most frequent form of bottom bracket for mid-level and better bicycles. In 1992 Cannondale introduced the Headshok as well as the accompanying over-sized headtube. In 2001 the OnePointFive standard emerged using similar headtube dimensions since the Headshok headtube. On the mountain biking circuit, Cannondale is really 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 including Bicycling Hall of Famer and US National Round-the-clock Champion Tinker Juarez. A large number of notable riders happen to be sponsored by Cannondale at some stage in 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 the Cannondale Cut team and demos watch team. In triathlon racing, Cannondale has sponsored 2005 Ironman world champion Faris Al-Sultan, Dejan Patrcevic, Croatian triathlon champion, in addition to three time Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington, Sarah Reinertsen, the very first amputee woman to finish the Ironman Triathlon, 2004 Paralympics 200 IM gold medalist Rudy Garcia-Tolson.