That may be true. But unless you have spent already some money in tools, or have a reliable and willing bike mechanik near you, well lets say it kan be off putting. Bought a used bike. Took it in for service. Asked for it to be given a once over. Asked specificaly for the cables to be changed for new ones. Aparently nothing was done. Wheels still out of alignment, cables not changed, transmition not adjusted. I dont think they did enything at all. Tried a diferent shop. Exact same story. Ended up buying a new bike. .... couldnt aford mutch better had to go to a Departement shop. Took them 2 hours of me constantly testing and showing them and have the shop mechanic try for him self to get the transmition sorted... still not 100%. Whells are a joke. Basicaly, hoping to save enough money to buy the tools i need to do the job my self. In the mean while working 60h weeks and havent gone for an enjoyable ride in years because .... dont even know enymore. It realy is just of puting. I am watching this video now and i want to do all this and ride my bike or have someone do it.. but realy. Payed 150plus euros for each previous mentioned interventioned on my used bike and nothing was done. Sory about the rnt. Must be the heat
Another satisfying video! One small comment about detailing the paint, though - detailing a bike is the same concept as detailing a car. When you have a rough texture on the paint, you'll want to use a claybar/synthetic clay mitt before polishing because those help safely lift off the contaminants from the paint before you polish. That will help your paint last a lot longer, since you're just grinding that dust/dirt into the paint if you polish it without removing the contaminants first. Anyways, keep up the great videos!
Love this approach to a bike purchase. Rather than heading out and spending thousands. Picking a gret 2nd hand bike and putting in some work to make it perfect again. Well done and excited to see how great the bike is out in the world. Lee your attention to detail with those end cps as an example is 2nd to none! Great content and keep it going, always buy bikes 2nd hand and enjoy the process and accountability for ensuring everything is right by me for me🎉
I was waiting for this video.. I have the same exact bike with all the components.. Wow!!.. Thank you for this.. brought a big smile on my face.. Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪
Always a pleasure to watch your videos and it’s amazing to see you put the same care and attention to detail to your customers bikes just as you do to yours. I always see car mechanics driving dumpy cars, it’s nice to see a bike mechanic using a well maintained machine.
Shame the previous owner didn't ride this bike. Synapses ride very nice. Beautiful paint job. I love when frame has light colours on it. Makes it optically look much lighter and "happier."
i personally also rides a synapse. Alloy synapse from around 2010. Got it second handed for 700 dollars which in retrospect seems a little bit too much. But it has been great, upgraded almost every part of it and I love it very much❤
Lee and Simon nice to see it coming to life, smart buying choice both in terms of a used bike and its condition. Minimal tweaks to put it back to new. Did same recently with a SuperX for a non mechanical friend. Appreciate all the work that goes into these vids 👍………..keep us up to date as the baby grows up ! Cheers
Evening Team Bikespeeds......looks like a brand new bike ! Wow! Chapeau to this, your own bike on your channel. Fine value for money and proves you don't need to spend a lot of money to appreciate a quality bike 👍👏. Enjoy the fine weather on the new steed ! 🍻
Just got a 2015-ish Bianchi Via Nirone. Al frame, carbon forks, external cable runs and rim brakes 👍. Same thing - looked barely ridden. Was a mix of Tiagra, FSA and Riparto Corse components. Stripped it down and rebuilt as 1x11 105/GRX with Ritchie bars, stem & seatpost. I’ll never buy an overpriced new bike.
Great refurb dude lovely job as always 😃🚴🏻 love Cannondales great bikes.. brilliant idea for a series.. I have a supersix evo and had a CAAD10 brilliant 😊❤ Pete 🚴🏻👍😊
in my opinion you should tighten the ahead cap on top of the fork before you tighten the stembolts (the ones clamping the fork). reason being: the ahead cap compresses the stem down to the fork to get the play out of the headset. if you tighten the stembolts before the cap, the stem is to tight to be pushed down by the ahead cap.
My ideas for weight saving are 23mm tires (saves 50-100g compared to 28mm), TPU-tubes (saves 150 g compared to Butyl tubes). Cheap Zonda C17 or DT Swiss Spline wheels weighing 1500 g (saves 100-400 g compared to standard wheels), Aliexpress carbon saddle (saves 50g, maybe more), Look Keo Ti pedals
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out, was great to see you get a bike your size. I am not sure about the FSA Chainset, a 105 would look much better for sure!
I love your channel. Your voice is so calming, information so knowledgeable and attention to detail second to none. You have inspired me to strip down a second hand MTB and create a road/commuter bike with rigid fork. A question if I may. I'm going to repaint the frame, just stripping the original paint currently. Do you have any recommendations for paint stripper in UK or techniques. All paint strippers I have tried so far seem to be tame these days for a good reason (environmental safety) but would like to speed the process up and be more effective at removing all the original paint. It's hard work 😂
@PhilDiasPJD ……..yes …..get it media blasted (alu oxide preferably as gentle on older frames) …..worth the cost /effort. Plenty of good paint resto examples of technique out there eg DAB restorations, Buffs Vintage Bikes , On Road Vintage Bikes. Just finished stripping a frame …………which is now going for blasting…… 😂
I love your videos... I've really learned a lot on this channel... thank you for that... I think it'll be better to wear gloves when handling these bikes... Just my little advise tho
My guess is the tyres are brittle and cracked, and probably very poor compound compared to modern tyres. Would hate to think about riding with them in the wet! Lovely to see this neglected bike get some real love and care - if bikes have a soul, this is a very very happy bike.
Those brakes bring back a question I’ve had for years. Back in the 70’s, cheap bikes had side pull brakes and better bikes had center pulls. The problem you show here didn’t happen with center pulls. Then in the mid-70’s they decided side pull was somehow better and higher end bikes started to come with them. 🤷♂️ Why? I never thought they were better.
I recall seeing you measuring paint thickness and using T-Cut quite commonly when I started with this channel, but not seen that for a long while. Have you dropped this process?
Measuring paint thickness we found irrelevant because there was always enough thickness! And Tcut we still use on some jobs, not this one, but found it to make the videos a bit boring through the very long, clean, wipe, tcut wipe, polish, wipe, ceramic, whipe, process!
This is peak bike in my opinion, a decent set of wheels would make the performance gap between this and a new and way more expensive bike be negligible, love the paint job and aesthetic of this too, instead of the usual flat one or two colours bikes we get now. I wish we could all stop wasting our money and just buy bikes like this and enjoy cycling rather than trying to be flashy and pretentious
Biggest issue I can see is the 35 degree stem and upward tilted drops. You don't wanna do this on a road bike, it creates way more friction on your sit bones. Just do PNF stretching until you can touch your toes and use a 17 degree stem and level bars, your butt will thank you. This type of bike geometry is no good with level saddle and bars like an old rando bike.
You talk about preventive maintenance and future proofing. How about changing the 10 year old cables? You do such an amazing job cleaning and lubricating everything. But you leave the cables???? You didn't even lubricate them, but you lube non moving parts.
Even though they might be old, if the bike has been dry-stored, and hasn't done many miles, there's a good chance the cables won't be stretched, in which case with some lubrication they can be absolutely fine. There's a cracking channel called Bike Farmer and he does it all the time with old bikes. Kind of a, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach.
He tells at the end, why he didn't do anything: he is planning to replace the handlebar for a narrower one so doing cables would be a waste of money right now
Brilliant video and goes to show you dont need to spend £1000s on a brand new bike. This era are when some brilliant bikes came out
Exactly! That’s the idea with this series 🧡
That may be true. But unless you have spent already some money in tools, or have a reliable and willing bike mechanik near you, well lets say it kan be off putting. Bought a used bike. Took it in for service. Asked for it to be given a once over. Asked specificaly for the cables to be changed for new ones. Aparently nothing was done. Wheels still out of alignment, cables not changed, transmition not adjusted. I dont think they did enything at all. Tried a diferent shop. Exact same story. Ended up buying a new bike. .... couldnt aford mutch better had to go to a Departement shop. Took them 2 hours of me constantly testing and showing them and have the shop mechanic try for him self to get the transmition sorted... still not 100%. Whells are a joke. Basicaly, hoping to save enough money to buy the tools i need to do the job my self. In the mean while working 60h weeks and havent gone for an enjoyable ride in years because .... dont even know enymore. It realy is just of puting. I am watching this video now and i want to do all this and ride my bike or have someone do it.. but realy. Payed 150plus euros for each previous mentioned interventioned on my used bike and nothing was done. Sory about the rnt. Must be the heat
Another satisfying video! One small comment about detailing the paint, though - detailing a bike is the same concept as detailing a car. When you have a rough texture on the paint, you'll want to use a claybar/synthetic clay mitt before polishing because those help safely lift off the contaminants from the paint before you polish. That will help your paint last a lot longer, since you're just grinding that dust/dirt into the paint if you polish it without removing the contaminants first.
Anyways, keep up the great videos!
Thanks Adam🧡
Love this approach to a bike purchase. Rather than heading out and spending thousands. Picking a gret 2nd hand bike and putting in some work to make it perfect again. Well done and excited to see how great the bike is out in the world. Lee your attention to detail with those end cps as an example is 2nd to none! Great content and keep it going, always buy bikes 2nd hand and enjoy the process and accountability for ensuring everything is right by me for me🎉
What bikes do you own! You might have said before but I do not remember 🧡
I was waiting for this video..
I have the same exact bike with all the components..
Wow!!..
Thank you for this.. brought a big smile on my face..
Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪
Thanks for the support! 🇰🇪🧡
Outstanding catch, these generation cannondales are peak road bikes, pure workhorse, not one gaudy bit on them
Incredible for the money!🧡
The quality of your workmanship is incredible 👍🇮🇪
Thank you Joe!🧡🇮🇪
Rim brakes for the win!
I have the 2012 model with exactly the same paintwork! Upgraded all the components to ultegra & absolutely love it.
That’s my exact plan🧡
1:25 BRILLIANT!
Nice find. Plenty of good bikes stored away waiting to receive this kind of love. Thanks for the videos! 🚲
Thank you as always! I’m super happy with it so far 🧡⚙️
I love Cannondales, having raced on a CAAD3 and CAAD4 equipped with Campag Chorus in the 1990s. Very fast bikes those 🙂
Those were the days!🧡
The SAVE seatpost provides a ton of added comfort over the C2 seatpost. A very worthwhile addition. Love my Synapse.
I will look!🧡
Always a pleasure to watch your videos and it’s amazing to see you put the same care and attention to detail to your customers bikes just as you do to yours. I always see car mechanics driving dumpy cars, it’s nice to see a bike mechanic using a well maintained machine.
lol I used to maintain my bikes weekly! Fully stripped down each week!🧡
Shame the previous owner didn't ride this bike. Synapses ride very nice. Beautiful paint job. I love when frame has light colours on it. Makes it optically look much lighter and "happier."
Agreed! So many black bikes now it’s nice to see a bright one 🧡
Lovely job and the paint work did pop out. You’re a very good bike mechanic and it’s always a pleasure to watch you at work 👍
Very kind thank you!🧡
i personally also rides a synapse. Alloy synapse from around 2010. Got it second handed for 700 dollars which in retrospect seems a little bit too much. But it has been great, upgraded almost every part of it and I love it very much❤
Lee and Simon nice to see it coming to life, smart buying choice both in terms of a used bike and its condition. Minimal tweaks to put it back to new. Did same recently with a SuperX for a non mechanical friend. Appreciate all the work that goes into these vids 👍………..keep us up to date as the baby grows up ! Cheers
Glad you’re still tinkering! Thanks again🧡
It's very satisfying to watch this, leave that bike at 100%.
500 lb is an absolutely bargain! And now its almost like new!
Evening Team Bikespeeds......looks like a brand new bike ! Wow! Chapeau to this, your own bike on your channel. Fine value for money and proves you don't need to spend a lot of money to appreciate a quality bike 👍👏. Enjoy the fine weather on the new steed ! 🍻
Bikes depreciate harder than cars!🧡
You're not wrong there! 🙂@@Bikespeeds
This is utterly amazing.
Just got a 2015-ish Bianchi Via Nirone. Al frame, carbon forks, external cable runs and rim brakes 👍. Same thing - looked barely ridden. Was a mix of Tiagra, FSA and Riparto Corse components. Stripped it down and rebuilt as 1x11 105/GRX with Ritchie bars, stem & seatpost. I’ll never buy an overpriced new bike.
Great way to cycle for a much more reasonable price 🧡
Well done @bikespeeds, i look foward for more bike mainetainence video... Eg, mtb, gravel etc
Thank you! We appreciate the support
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Looks great now can't wait to see you out on it!
A vlog coming soon!🧡⚙️
I recently cleaned my road rear derailleur and was amazed at how much better it shifted. Didnt appear that dirty visually.
It’s amazing when you get stuck in! Thanks for watching 🧡⚙️
That end cap removal 🔥
Basically a new bike for a fraction of the cost ! Nice job as always guys 👍👍
A bargain really! This was an era i remember fondly when doing triathlon 🧡
Superb service, this is really is bettter than when itbleft the factory. Used my big softy brush the other day 😎🇫🇮
Haha thanks Dean hope you’re keeping the fleet nice 🧡
This is great. Starting to catch up your videos.
Thanks Brian! Plenty to get through🧡
Brilliant video love the shiny cassette nice and shiny chain
Nice road bike lovely bike 👍🏼
Thanks Paul! 🧡⚙️
Great video as always. Your bike looks brand new should get many enjoyable miles out of it, and looking forward to the upgrades. Cheers
Thanks again for the support! Plenty more on the way🧡
Great refurb dude lovely job as always 😃🚴🏻 love Cannondales great bikes.. brilliant idea for a series.. I have a supersix evo and had a CAAD10 brilliant 😊❤ Pete 🚴🏻👍😊
Awesome! This content will be for you then! Thanks Pete 🧡⚙️
Nice work on a nice bike 😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you thank you Magnus 🧡
in my opinion you should tighten the ahead cap on top of the fork before you tighten the stembolts (the ones clamping the fork).
reason being: the ahead cap compresses the stem down to the fork to get the play out of the headset. if you tighten the stembolts before the cap, the stem is to tight to be pushed down by the ahead cap.
i love ur set up , i havee to tell u im gunna steal the oil storage idea, I GUESS I GET TO BUY SOME lol that's great thank u
www.bikespeeds.com/shop ! Thanks for your support!🧡
Another great lovely service, thank you! Curious about the weight saving video...!
Tonight!🧡
@@Bikespeeds 👍 Nice! Thank you!
Beautiful bike
Thank you!🧡
The mystery of the missing chainring bolt! Four were shown being copper greased yet five appeared during installation. 🤔🤔😂😂
Lol we always say when we set these shots up “someone will notice” and someone always does 😂🧡
Another stellar video 🤘🚴🙏🤙
Thank you!🧡⚙️
My ideas for weight saving are 23mm tires (saves 50-100g compared to 28mm), TPU-tubes (saves 150 g compared to Butyl tubes). Cheap Zonda C17 or DT Swiss Spline wheels weighing 1500 g (saves 100-400 g compared to standard wheels), Aliexpress carbon saddle (saves 50g, maybe more), Look Keo Ti pedals
Weight savings from going to that smaller tire vs keeping the more comfortable larger tire are not worth it IMO
We will be swapping components soon but did an “afternoon challenge” that people can do after having already fitted those components🧡
que belleza de bici!
Really nice, will ride heaps better. Thanks for the share.
Thanks David! Rides better for sure 🧡
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out, was great to see you get a bike your size. I am not sure about the FSA Chainset, a 105 would look much better for sure!
FSA chainrings are absolute trash they flex like mad.
Ultegra on the way!🧡
@@Bikespeeds YAY! then next, seatpost, Saddle, Seatpost
Excellent
Thank you John!🧡⚙️
Very impressive man. I don't know where is your shop but I would love to bring my bike for that kind of service
I love your channel. Your voice is so calming, information so knowledgeable and attention to detail second to none.
You have inspired me to strip down a second hand MTB and create a road/commuter bike with rigid fork. A question if I may. I'm going to repaint the frame, just stripping the original paint currently. Do you have any recommendations for paint stripper in UK or techniques. All paint strippers I have tried so far seem to be tame these days for a good reason (environmental safety) but would like to speed the process up and be more effective at removing all the original paint. It's hard work 😂
@PhilDiasPJD ……..yes …..get it media blasted (alu oxide preferably as gentle on older frames) …..worth the cost /effort. Plenty of good paint resto examples of technique out there eg DAB restorations, Buffs Vintage Bikes , On Road Vintage Bikes. Just finished stripping a frame …………which is now going for blasting…… 😂
Yes blasting I have used 🧡
Good luck on it and really happy to here the channel has inspired you!
Let's have some more 90s content! 🚴
Definitely on the way!🧡
I love your videos... I've really learned a lot on this channel... thank you for that... I think it'll be better to wear gloves when handling these bikes... Just my little advise tho
Epic content!
Thank you!🧡⚙️
Really good video. Shame I'm so far from Lowestoft as I'd definitely be asking you to service my Synapse!
Very kind thank you!🧡
My guess is the tyres are brittle and cracked, and probably very poor compound compared to modern tyres. Would hate to think about riding with them in the wet!
Lovely to see this neglected bike get some real love and care - if bikes have a soul, this is a very very happy bike.
New tyres are on order and going to be fitted but we’re saving it for a “new wheel” video to do the whole lot🧡
Those brakes bring back a question I’ve had for years. Back in the 70’s, cheap bikes had side pull brakes and better bikes had center pulls. The problem you show here didn’t happen with center pulls. Then in the mid-70’s they decided side pull was somehow better and higher end bikes started to come with them. 🤷♂️ Why? I never thought they were better.
Good point!🧡
Had near enough the same bike, but alu and Sora… still searching marketplace to buy it back. (One day)
It’s a great bike so far. Good luck on your searching 🧡
I recall seeing you measuring paint thickness and using T-Cut quite commonly when I started with this channel, but not seen that for a long while. Have you dropped this process?
Measuring paint thickness we found irrelevant because there was always enough thickness! And Tcut we still use on some jobs, not this one, but found it to make the videos a bit boring through the very long, clean, wipe, tcut wipe, polish, wipe, ceramic, whipe, process!
Great video as always! Is the shimano premium grease lithium based? Thx in advance! And keep going!
what kind of bolt have You used to replace the rounded seatpost clamp one?
How did you manage to remove that seat clamp bolt if it was rounded off? I have the same issue on an older bike.
We got lucky that it just about had some bite, if not you’d be needing to drill it out🧡
Do you have a list of what torque is for each component?
What size ultrasonic cleaner do you guys use and recommend? And what brands are good to get?
6L any brand!🧡
@@Bikespeeds Great! Thankyou very much. Any prefered degreaser to use with it? I've been looking at no nonsense degreaser
I'm always curious, why don't you put thread lock on the bolts directly.
It’s simply easier to show on the camera this way🧡
This is peak bike in my opinion, a decent set of wheels would make the performance gap between this and a new and way more expensive bike be negligible, love the paint job and aesthetic of this too, instead of the usual flat one or two colours bikes we get now. I wish we could all stop wasting our money and just buy bikes like this and enjoy cycling rather than trying to be flashy and pretentious
All that for such little money also! I completely agree with all your points 🧡
Could you pleqse tell me what is the widest tyre it could take?
It will be sweet
But, how did it ride after the service?
Smoother!🧡
That's unbelievable how much dust can diminish a paint coating
It was super rough, more than it sounded on camera!🧡
Good old 105 5700 10-speed groupset ?
Ultegra! 🧡
Biggest issue I can see is the 35 degree stem and upward tilted drops. You don't wanna do this on a road bike, it creates way more friction on your sit bones. Just do PNF stretching until you can touch your toes and use a 17 degree stem and level bars, your butt will thank you. This type of bike geometry is no good with level saddle and bars like an old rando bike.
I’ll look into it thank you!🧡
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Is this z 2017 model?
Why didn't you service the headset??
While you’re at it, get rid of that FSA crankset/BB. Not a fan.
Agreed!🧡
B gap screw is just a piece of rubbish on those older series shimano RDs
Все круто но как тут уже сказали за 10 лет я бы кабели заменил прежде всего 🤷
We will be replacing them along with the bars very soon!🧡
@@Bikespeeds nice job 👍. Good luck
You talk about preventive maintenance and future proofing. How about changing the 10 year old cables? You do such an amazing job cleaning and lubricating everything. But you leave the cables???? You didn't even lubricate them, but you lube non moving parts.
Even though they might be old, if the bike has been dry-stored, and hasn't done many miles, there's a good chance the cables won't be stretched, in which case with some lubrication they can be absolutely fine. There's a cracking channel called Bike Farmer and he does it all the time with old bikes. Kind of a, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach.
@samblenkharn8099 did you see any cable lubrication here? Na.
Yeah, I watch his channel, too. He always fully lubes his cables.
He tells at the end, why he didn't do anything: he is planning to replace the handlebar for a narrower one so doing cables would be a waste of money right now
@@FuchsHorst spot on. I knew there'd be a good reason.
Why keep that disgusting plastic thing behind the cassette
For tonight’s video🧡