scale reads different every time i step on it. roughly 32 pounds i think. My BMX bike is around 27 pounds and it almost feels heavier than this Cannondale.

The main reason i jumped on this deal is the frame geometry. Short, compact, BMX like frame geometry, low bottom bracket. Just feels very much like what I'm used to from park riding. I really wanna put the street tires on it and take it to the skatepark and ride some bowls!

 

I rode my buddy's new rockhopper, and a full suspension XC bike. Couldn't stand the feel of them. They feel bulky and like I don't have enough control over it.

 

I had a eastern for a while that was a really fun bike to just mess around on! Fun for stair gaps on campus and do some short distance ridding. I never go into the whole trail ridding with this bike but it was fun for what we called urban assault (mostly drops to flats and using man made walls and stairs to have fun with.




I also got a haro Shift series and upgraded everthing on the bike as it broke Swapped everything but the rear shock(it took a beating). I used this bike for mostly trail and bigger drops 5+ ft. Its fun for a full suspension and has a nice ride on the trails. I have changed everything and kept it right around 38lbs so it can still be ridden for some xc.

 

I've been wantin a mtn. bike for a long time. I used to ride just for fun yr. ago on a 10 spd. (it was my older bros.) lite as heck for it's day or perhaps now, designed for competition. Rode like a dream & I could fly on that bike. I use to do 10 mile trips to the lake & back quite often. Heck, even on my small 20" bike I went 8 miles each way to my friends (16 ttl) or rode to school 4 mi. (8 ttl) each way. I was sore as **** when I took it for a 22 trip up a lot of hills.

So I like long distance, not huge jumps or catchin 6' of air like some of y'all. I do wanna play a little like a mtn. bike is intended.

Fast fwd present day. I've looked at hardtails & full susp. too. Hopefully next yr. I can get one I want. Jake, u gave me something to think about.

Cause I was learning toward a susp. bike. I might need a rethink after your post, cause good bikes aren't cheap, & I'd hate to find out afterward. But I want it to take whatever I throw at it, whether it's 10 minutes or 10 miles. Cause I know once I get it, I'll be ridin the **** outta it.

 

Your going to love that bike comming from a BMX back ground. I have a smilar style bike (urban assult) Specialized P3. I love it! I do more street riding (stairs, jumps, just messing around) than off road trail riding with it. I have gone on the trails with it and it rides great! The only down side is the handle bars a pretty wide on it. Much wider than my old GT Timberline it repaced. Mine has a 9 speed gearset in the back with a fixed gear front sprocket. It has all the gears I need! Here is a picture (not mine...im at work and don't have pics at this time)

 

I would LOVE a P bike, but DAMN they're EXPENSIVE!!!!

Had my eye on a P bike for a loooong time. But this Cannondale was the right price

 

i ride my bike with no hanle bars lol

 

yeah.....money was good at the time I bought it. Not so much now. That cannondale is going to work perfect for you. Definatly try to put a decent gear set and derailer on the back with nice rapid fire style shifter. No grip shifters for off road or urban street riding! It will then become basically a BMX with gears and suspention. These style bikes can really take a beating!

I have a set of off road tires that are pretty heavy and noisy when street riding so to help out with distance riding I bought a different set for road/hard packed dirt use. Specialzed Hemisphere tires are some nice pucnture resistant 1.95x26" tires that have great traction on pavement. I can cut pretty hard when moving at a good clip. Much lighter than the 2.25's that came on it. Plus the soft compounded off road tires wear quickly on the street.

 

I have a 98 Klein Attitude Pro that I used to ride a ton of trails with, but haven't hopped on it much lately, been working too much. I had a Trek Y33 set up for downhill, Trek 9800 hardtail, and an Elf bmx bike, but sold them all over the years. The Klein is a stiff bike with a long top tube, but really quick on the single tracks. And at 21 pounds, you feel every bump you hit.

I'll post up a pic of the Klein and maybe still have some of the other bikes somewhere.

 

I was thinking that the whole way through reading this thread