wow and not so wow for me. it is a mish mash of things that excite me but scare me at the same time.
all things aside, its a very individual bike that i have never seen the likes of before.

sti’s with a lefty fork on ultralight rims and discs and a rear vision mirror.

hmmmm

that’s just flat out awesome. very very very cool.
how do the road levers work with discs?

Hello Asher,
thank you for your words.

The road levers works fine. It is a mechanical system, no fluids.
If the rotors make a no nondesirable friction, [resisting the relative lateral (tangential) motion of solid surfaces], you can adjust the dual-pad adjustment knobs in both faces using Avid BB7, this option was not possible with my old Magura Marta hydraulic brakes and levers, sincerely I prefer mechanical systems.

One more time, thanks.

Hello ukalipt,
do not scare.

There is no ultralight rims on my bicycle (if you consider 615 g per rim without tubes and tyres) I took a year and a half to obtaining a black 24 holes pair of rims with wide profile (42 mm) 700C, thanks to a good work from Tzusing at H Plus Son (Al G609 Alloy welded rims).

The rear vision mirror is for to know that comes… by my back. A simple element that contributes something to security on some roads or bike lanes. I recommend it to road (and commuter bicycles surrounded by cars). The manufacturer is Zefal and they called Spy.

Thanks for your wow…

Nice looking bycycle, I’ll bet it draws a lot of comments. I know it’s a very comfortable saddle but the Brooks just looks out of place for some reason.

Wow, that thing is awesome.

Fantastic looking bike - love deep section rims with the Lefty fork. I’ve haven’t seen anything like this before! I guess that’s what your aim was.

Hello steel-is-real,
thank you for your comment!

Hello Hebegb,
my “Black Horse” is like a… Musical composition.

Electric guitar, drums, piano, bass, cello, wind, keyboard, flutes, acoustic guitar, violin, voices and so on. I use Brooks saddles since 15 years ago. From time to time, I change the saddle to a Saddleco Flow Ti (a great “lost” invention) or one tune SpeedNeedlee, or one white Cinelli Unicanitor. I ride with shorts all the year (no cycling shorts) and my best option for many reasons is, Brooks Swallow Ti.

Thank you for your comment.
By the way… The Brooks, is the piano.

Hello Argentius,
thanks for you wow.

I hope that my “creation” is like to put a seed in the bicycle manufacturers. Sincerely, I am tired of -more or less- aesthetic carbon fiber and paint. I think that: “functionality and form is first. Aesthetic comes later. If you imagine or draw a design with this start line I am sure that aesthetic comes by itself”.

One more time, thank you for your wow.

This is something else!!!

I’ve been looking for a new bike & tested the Bad Boy 7, good bike, but thought that it would have benefitted from suspension.

After seeing this, I’m blown away…the rims, the forks…I think i’m going to rethink my budget & go for a Ultra.

Thanks for the inspiration!!!

Tzu

Nice ride- overall. I reckon some chunkier CX tyres and safer wheels would make it better though in that it could be ridden off road as well as on.

Hello Tzu,
a few months ago I bought one matte black Bad Boy 700 (2009 EU model) for my wife, accomplice and copilot of my feelings. And I change it a little bit: put and Avid BB5, Campagnolo Xenon 10s Ergopower Gear Shifters (now, so difficult to find), Campagnolo Veloce 10s derailleurs, Sram Force/Rival OG1070 10s (11-23), Thomson Masterpiece ø 31,6 (350 mm), Kmc X10 SL Ti Nitride Coated Chain, two black Schwalbe Ultremo 622 x 28 ETRTO, Selle San Marco Zoncolan Arrowhead Gelaround Saddle, Easton Ergo Road Bar ø 31,8 · 40 with an Easton Synthetic Cork Bar Tape with EVA, Campagnolo 35 mm seatpost clamp and, change the BB to a new Campanolo Record too.

She is in love with her new bicycle. And I hope that for a long time… Also of me.

If you need some additional information, I will be enchanted to help you.
Peace & Sun from the Mediterranean Sea.

Hello unicornsmakemehappy,
from time to time… I change my tyres from road to CX.

Two years ago I bought a pair of Vittoria Cross XG Pro at Arkansas, USA. Good feelings, a little bit more weight but I returned to mount road pneumatics. I remember (once up on a time) that I rolled with a Continental GP4000 · 20-622 · ETRTO… I liked, but there was to thin for me (to draw curves with this tyres “cornering”) it was very, very thin lines and… Too Vertiginous.

With all my respects, thank you for your comment. Perhaps, this winter I will install my old CX tyres.

But what is it? a road or off road bike? it looks confused…... so why would a manufacturer make a bike that can;t do either very well?

Hello unicornsmakemehappy,
“Black Horse” is my vision of a multipurpose bicycle.

If I ride on road, bike lane or commute, I use a pair of wheels and, If I ride on other terrain, I will use another tyres. Perhaps, one day I will install another wheels with 26 x 2.5” tyres. When I bought this “Hand Made Frame” I bought it, having in mind my own vision of a multipurpose bicycle. I carefully selected: metrics, diameters, materials, and so on. It is not only a bicycle for me, it is like a mechanical project, in essence, it is like designing a mechanism of a simple clock.

I write “Hand Made” because, next year Cannondale will stop being “Hand Made in USA”.  By the way, I have got a few words for the bicycle manufacturers industry: more “ingenuitas” and less engineering, and one more: please, look, observe and listen to users.

Four years ago, I designed an Integrated Cycle Computer for Lefty Forks placed inside the hole at the top head tube, all data in scale, cadence, elapsed time, trip distance, different units, diverse speeds, wheel sizes, 2.4 GHz wireless technology, different colors for a retro illuminated display, etc. Send it (free of copyrights) to Cannondale USA and Europe… At this time I have not received any e-Mail. Sincerely, I do not have no idea why manufacturers do not make “different” bicycles. There are people that, can only see the beach, and there is another people that one day, discovered the sand grain beautiful geometry.

I want to believe that sharing is equal to knowledge. I want to believe…

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