Your custom bad boy is a great inspiration for me! Thank you! I love the wheels with the white limited edition tires and generally the fact that you build it with special and hard to find components. It is really awesome to own unique items ;-)
Hello Grammo,
excuse me for my late answer and thank you for your words.
I am 172 cm (72kg) and my frame is M size. Instead of change the frame to a large size (M to L) try to change the size of the Holy Headshok Stem to a large one. I think that you will ride more comfortable and remember… If you change a flat handlebar to a road bar, you will have more positions (think about five). And if you allow it to me, use EASTON Velo Tape Synthetic Cork on your new road handlebar, it is the best.
I hope that my words have been a little support for your question.
Note about M to L: my wife rides L size on another Cannondale Bad Boy 700 (2009 EU model) configuration customized by me, but she is 184 cm (62kg). Be careful if you decide change to L size, I think that this is not a good size for you, and your spine (among other body elements) will notice it.
One more time, thank you for your comments.
Peace & Sun from Spain.
Hi Jamie
That’s a big help to see your set up. Nice to see somebody thinking
It’s very similar to what I had in mind. A bike that covers most of my biking interests. Training, commuting and some light MTBing.
I bought a Badboy Ultra size M, as indicated for my height, 176cm. But I feel it is too short for road use. I can’t breathe and it’s unstable when standing in the peddles. I’m thinking to change it for a Large.
I’m curious to try a set of road bars as you have but with the extra reach incurred with road bars the Large frame may become too long. What do you think? What is your frame size and height?
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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20Hello Stamatis,
thank you for your comments. It is my pleasure if my bicycle is a great inspiration for you.
Regards from Spain.
Your custom bad boy is a great inspiration for me! Thank you! I love the wheels with the white limited edition tires and generally the fact that you build it with special and hard to find components. It is really awesome to own unique items ;-)
regards from Greece,
Stamatis
Hello Grammo,
excuse me for my late answer and thank you for your words.
I am 172 cm (72kg) and my frame is M size. Instead of change the frame to a large size (M to L) try to change the size of the Holy Headshok Stem to a large one. I think that you will ride more comfortable and remember… If you change a flat handlebar to a road bar, you will have more positions (think about five). And if you allow it to me, use EASTON Velo Tape Synthetic Cork on your new road handlebar, it is the best.
I hope that my words have been a little support for your question.
Note about M to L: my wife rides L size on another Cannondale Bad Boy 700 (2009 EU model) configuration customized by me, but she is 184 cm (62kg). Be careful if you decide change to L size, I think that this is not a good size for you, and your spine (among other body elements) will notice it.
One more time, thank you for your comments.
Peace & Sun from Spain.
Hi Jamie
That’s a big help to see your set up. Nice to see somebody thinking
It’s very similar to what I had in mind. A bike that covers most of my biking interests. Training, commuting and some light MTBing.
I bought a Badboy Ultra size M, as indicated for my height, 176cm. But I feel it is too short for road use. I can’t breathe and it’s unstable when standing in the peddles. I’m thinking to change it for a Large.
I’m curious to try a set of road bars as you have but with the extra reach incurred with road bars the Large frame may become too long. What do you think? What is your frame size and height?
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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