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- From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
- Subject: Re: Cannondale M700 or M800?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.134310.10646@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <93023.195103JXA12@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 13:43:10 GMT
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- In article <93023.195103JXA12@psuvm.psu.edu> <JXA12@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >Hello!
- >I'm planning to buy a Cannondale M700 or M800 MTB. They are both the same
- >price, have almost the same components, but there are some differences in
- >the frame geometry: M700 is "conservative" and M800 "beast of the east" is
- >more "radical". I don't have much more info about them.
-
- i have a '92 M800. about the only difference in componentry between it
- and the M700 was that the M800 had smokes instead of ritchey megabites.
- the main difference is, as you say, the frame geometry: the M800 has
- a radically sloped top tube and a higher bottom bracket. i don't
- have the exact numbers, but the M800 looks somewhat like an overgrown
- BMX bike with its geometry. the seat tube is so short that they didn't
- put water bottle bosses on it; instead, there is a second set of bosses
- on the underside of the down tube.
-
- i don't remember the exact numbers, but i believe the M800's bottom
- bracket is about an inch higher than the M700's. nice for technical
- riding. on the road, i can pedal on the bottoms of the pedals without
- dragging toeclips at all - a bonus for city riding when you want to get
- through the intersection quickly. the sloping top tube is nice, too.
- it's already saved me from some serious pain when i had to bail out.
- the tradeoff is less stable handling compared with my friend's M700.
- you take your pick. i thought the higher bottom bracket was worth
- the slightly decreased stability.
-
- -teddy
-