2003 CANNONDALE X440 RARE MINT & ALL STOCK ORIGINAL
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Never seen this before😳 I heard of cannondale mountain bikes !! Love it 🥰
I got a chance to ride one when they were still in production. It was smooth and fast. The overall fit and finish is very high quality. Super nice and fun to ride. My buddy Jeff Stoess won the Sparta GNCC pro quad class on one of the Cannondale quads on a rainy muddy day way back when.
I remember racing on of these back in 2002-2003
I holeshot ever time I rode one. Biggest thing was reliability.
Working on them wasn’t bad at the time. Shop I worked for had race team for them.
I remember when we went to plant in pa came back with trailer loads of these bikes and quads.
Wish I still have one of the quads they where race ready out of the box
Cool bike. Stunning showpiece. I remember these. Great description of the bike. These were super trick and innovative bikes at the time.
It's crazy to think how innovative theyvwere with this bike. Itbhas features that we finally got not too long ago. It still has some trick features that we dont have like the in frame transmission swap.
Actually, I think it all has been done before, including the cassette transmission. Not sure if it was all in production before Cannondale though.
@@EarthSurferUSA
Not in an MX bike
EFI
Electric start
Cassette transmission
Reverse head
...all state of the art & not seen again (or ever) for years in MX.
I remember looking at these along with the cannibal, blaze, and moto race quads back in 2001. There was a polaris/Kawasaki shop in my town that started selling Cannondales and every time I went there i left drool marks beside the blaze 440 xc quads (I was getting into atvs heavily at that time). If i remember right, the bikes were like $8,000 and the quads were close to $10,000, which was crazy for 2001, but they were american made and pretty much race ready off the showroom floor.
Fukn Deluxe! 😍🥹🤤 Cannondale make wicked bikes and honestly this Must be good!! Thanks Gentleman. 👊🏼❤️🏡
That is such an amazing looking bike. I remember growing up in early 90s and only knowing Cannondale to create awesome mountain bikes but damn that is a sexy bike
Ride it Ken !!!
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Thanks to your channel I decided to purchase a new or used bike. Either a 2005 SV1000 or a 2023 V Strom 650. I’ll know in a couple of days. There was a 2023 RM250z for $5,900. I really wanted that too. Thanks for what you do! Oh, and to honor your channel I got a red white and blue helmet. Was feeling patriotic after watching one of your Honda CR500 find videos. God bless America!
Cool bike I bet parts are next to impossible to find.
Remember going to look at one at some obscure dealership as a kid. People were scoffing at fuel injection and the other features. Saw a few new ones for sale a few years back. Shame we don’t get to see exciting or exotic things much anymore or at least the feeling is gone. This was like a space ship back then.
Crazy that these things actually got made.
I think it is crazy that MX bikes are not made in the USA. More than that. In fact, I think it is sabotage.
Thats thing is amazing! Loved their quads as well. Wish they woulda took off
The cassette transmission is pretty legendary for a bike from its time! Definitely a company that was far ahead of the times…sadly without the monster funding like the big companies which lead to their demise. They were certainly passionate about making something different though!
Had it not been for this thing, Cannondale would still be making super high quality bicycles in the US
Cannondale is still alive
@@Frank_999Scoobydooby They still make pretty good bikes, but now they're just generic Taiwanese-made stuff. They're not quite on the level of craftsmanship as they were when they were handmade in the US.
@@cra_55 I toured the shop (both bicycle and motorcycle, for an employment interview), and nothing was hand made, and almost nothing is anymore.
It makes me sad if the bicycle manufacturing is not in Bedford anymore. I have seen way too much of our manufacturing redistribution to nations who's citizens can not compete in free enterprise, (communistic, as the USA is now).
Good looking thing very interesting bike ahead of its time.
He said it....just a sexy machine
priceless..........................you will never see another one for sale this nice
wow never saw one opf those b 4 beautiful
they made sum fuel injected quads back in the day that was a piece of art
Stunner
a Fantastic and Innovative American bicycle maker
BEAUTIFUL Bike!!!
We need atk to return to making dirtbikes and quads!!!!
Did it not have ait intake issues that would clog up in muddy/dirty conditions? I heard the intake was fluted through the frame at the stem but maybe that was more to do with frame oil of which I didn't know. Maybe both? I recall it didn't fair well at all in the initial AMA races and the idea was scrapped. Ok, I don't know that much about the reasons why, but sure is moto history right there.
She is a beauty wish I had the money do you have any Ducati’s Love the channel keep up the great work👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome machine
Sweet ride right there
Woow awesome 😮
What bikes do Yamaha have that are reverse engine? I was unaware of that. I did not know that. Learn something new every day.
Too bad it didn't work as good as it did look on paper! USA made too what a shame . We all gathered around the first one to Lynnwood Yamaha and drooled over the un crating 😮
Cool bike. First production motocross bike with electric start?
And fuel injection😊
have the engine updated and all recall work done at Blackwidow talk to Ken and if you need just about any part or a complete plastic kit talk to Dave Muller he has just about every part for these Canns
Ive been mountain biking for over 30 years and in that time Cannondale brought a lot of tech to the industry, some ground breaking, some just strange and experimental. I didn't realize they were also making mx bikes.
I’ve a cannondale mtb w/ the lefty🤘🏻
@@Frank_999Scoobydooby very cool piece of MTB history. They had the wildest designs during that era
You should interview Joe Montgomery, and by phone would be fine. Nobody ever interviewed the CEO Joe Montgomery, (still CEO of the bicycle division I believe), to get his side of the story of why Cannondale went under. They had their teething problems I know, (The manufacturing floor manager was one of them, not very bright. I interviewed there, turned down the job), but the industry did not want the new competition, and they did band together to help destroy them. Yes, I am talking about the MXA write up on the bike. I have seen those "hit pieces" orchestrated before in other industries with new competition, or else we would be riding American made Tucker dirt bikes today.
Shame on MXA for helping destroy the greatest American effort to make a dirt bike. That was evil.
That's a take on it I didn't think about for sure. I mean when KTM and HUsky and Gasgas and now Beta and Triump want to jump in the mix it seems the media are all over the idea yet I do think that Suzuki has been getting a real bad rep via the mags in recent years. I dunno, just a hack and a fan I am.
Also Kap and fellaz, i gotta V900 but if you cab get ANY of the old V series bikes they’re worth their weight in gold. Cannondale reps ova ere in Oztralia 🇦🇺 tell us if you get one hangit on a wall! Pffft, not apnin, im ridn the fukaz. 😎💪🏼🍀 Havagood day Fam!!! 🏡
Looks like a 2001 cr250/125 frame
Is this sold
vor also. vor had a reverse engine fuel injected supposed to come out if they didn't go to bankruptcy
Gorgeous, first class dirtbike. I was unaware that Cannondale made motorcycles. I just knew they always made great high quality bicycles that aren't cheap. I think that Cannondale still makes bicycles.????...I'm not totally sure though. The Cannondale Company that made bicycles, is the same company that made this motorcycle????
They are!
@KaplanCycles Thanks Brother for the information.
SR. if you would, please put your helmet on and take this bike for a ride , would like to know what you think about the motor, I had one for a while it as a monster, always thought it would make a great super moto bike . It was a bit too much for the trails I thought.
IS IT ELECTRIC START?!?
It would still be running(the bike and the company)with a happy owner if it had a 2 stroke in it.
spoke is missing or come undone from one of the nipples on the front tire, looks like it might be zip tied to another one!
It's too bad we Americans live in a society that the cost deprives us from doing what we love to do. Cannondale even picked a color no other manufacturers use. Beautiful bike
incredible example. Still, they were reliability nightmares. The fuel injection system was the root of all problems.
I interviewed there about 6 months before MXA did a hit piece on it. One root of reliability problems was also the shop floor supervisor.
I could tell he was a flunky from the automotive industry. I watched him make a decision to use 800 head studs that were made from the wrong material and had stress risers. So if anybody broke head bolts that were only made of cold rolled, at the last thread, I was there when that decision was made.
So if anybody broke head bolts that were only made of cold rolled steel, and snapped at the last thread, I was there when that decision was made.
Sr. Is correct,, Yamaha copied and released the YZ 400 later,,, Keith Johnson piloted the MX
Made in the USA!
Completely ahead of their time people were just scarred of new technology I remember when they came out
I don't think any of the ideas were new, but some may be new for mass production.
First to have fuel injection as well
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its 4 stroke thats why
Ride it or sell it to me so i can one day!😂😂
You guys need to fix your mic. Its so annoying when sound is only coming from one side on headphones
Sorry!😊
I only WISH I could afford that bike right now! Unfortunately it will be YEARS before my court cases settle, and by then it will be gone! 👎👎 But there's always more bikes, and something else will always pop up that you didn't even know you wanted until you see it... Bikes rule 😈🤘
На них вообще когда-либо гоняли?
A diamond level investment. Just dazzling presentation. A no risk investment for some lucky investor.