Canondale Road Bike

I picked up a Canondale Road Bike at a moving sale, For a "All Must GO" sale the woman was pretty tough on the haggling, though she was nice. She did come down on the $50 price tag. Of course what really "forced" me into buying it was that Pete has been going on about his road bike all week;-) What can I say, it sounded pretty cool having a road bike.

This is the most I have spent for a 2 wheeled bike in 20 years. It is missing a shift lever and cable to the front derailleur and the paint is bubbling in a bunch of places. Tires (700 x 23C) are not great but are not plainly cracked and ready to fail.

So overall it is in pretty good shape.

I rode it up and down the street and I thought it was pretty decent. Of course the last 10 speed (the Canondale is a 14 speed) that I rode was a Huffy. And if I do ride a bike on the street it is my Trek 820 mountain bike. I am going to swap levers from a Bianchi parts bike I have just to complete the Canondale and see how it goes. I am not really picky on things like this. I will have to take a better look at the tires, any old tires that could be 22 years old really should be replaced. They may be newer, do look like they could be from 1986.