in my opinion the cannondale is goona suck at a mx track but probaly good at flat track. i wouldn't want to bee jumping wiith a aluminum frame
y2k400ex
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Come on now fellow Honda lover, it doesn't seem to bother this guy who grew up down the street from me. I hear he's out every weekend giving the young guys fits. His last name is LaRocco, don't remember his first name.
I've been a long time Cannondale road racer and I would bet on their technical skills when it comes to aluminium over Honda. Cannondale has NASA contracts for the space program! They're 4 real! I've got the first 2 reserved in Chicago.

 

Hey alltheway,
Do you know anything about the jambo they have near Halsey every year? It's in the Nebraska Nat'l Forest. Any info would be greatly appreciated

 

I have heard that cannondale will change the plastics, anyone heard this rumour?, really I don´t like them really much.

 

Its great they can make aluminum so well, cna they build a motor??? That remains to be see...

RoostKing

 

Hmm, you might want to tell that to the CR250 riders for the last 4 years (for 3 of those years, Honda was criticized for it being too rigid and unforgiving. It was labeled as an expert only bike). You might also want to mention it to the CR125 riders for the past 2.

It's all in the design, not the materials. Have you ever heard of the bridge that cardboard makers constructed out of... you guessed it.... Cardboard, to show off the strength of their product? They drove a Semi across it. I bet I could construct a bridge from steel & concrete that would fail when a semi was driven across. The design is the key.

 

Yes, I agree, the Cannondale is for real. My concern is engine realibility. Other than that it is a real choice for me. I watched a motocross race of Mt. Morris where the Cannondale raced at. I watched it on TV but my brother was there. He said that it Rocked! As far as a recall before a machine is even shipped, it can happen. I believe there was a last minute update of the DS650 that the first machines shipped did not get(clips installed incorrectly on lower balljoints of a few machines.) Bombardier caught it during quality control and local dealer couldn't even sell the machine they had on hand until problem was inspected/corrected.

 

The motocross bike has already won qualifying motos at Mt. Morris and Southwick, It was troubled by an electrical prolem with a prototype works part in the main at Southwick but no problem with the motor itself. I don't know about the post that it won't do well in motocross, Cannondale is designing it from the ground up to be a motocrosser. Haven't heard anything about the plastics but though the chassis looks beautiful I'm not to sweet on the plastics myself. I'm on the fence about putting a deposit down on one right now.

 

It does look like Kawasaki has positioned themselves to be the spoiler for 2001. Yamaha has announce/introduced the Raptor, Cannondale has pretty much played thier hand, and if Kawasaki does have new sport models coming out, I believe people will flock to them. They have announce one for sure, but the rumors are rampant as to what it is. Does anybody have some insider information as to what they will have for us?

 

Hope the new kawasaki will weight about 370 lbs and will be a 500 fuel injected.