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Originally Posted by oliver1850
Did you break any of them? The first generation frames look pretty stout to me but I can remember Errol at On Two Wheels in Moline telling me that my pink frame would eventually crack at the front derailleur. After 30 years and owning lots of 80s Cannondales, I still have not seen one cracked there. I can see the rivnut mounted FD as being a stress riser but on the other hand it's hard to imagine a frame that was much stiffer at the BB.
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I broke a few but I can't remember how many. Nothing catastrophic to cause a crash, dropout at least twice, after that it's foggy. The 3.0 Criterium frame was a beast, I weighed about 140 at the time and I kind of suffered with it. The 2.8 Road frame came out and it was a lot nicer to me. IIRC, around 89 or so I started getting frames with the aluminum fork, SR maybe, those completely changed the bike's personality.