Here's my 1985 Cannondale sm-500.
This was the 2nd year for the sm-500. This one is pretty original minus the cheap tires and a few period-ish changes.
Nice changes include...
-Wheel axles swapped out with quick release axles (and specialized qr levers to mach the hubs)
-Dia-compe caliper brake swapped out for a suntour xc roller cam
-Avocet touring I saddle like the one on the sm-600
-a hit rite!
It's got some issues with the rear wheel though... the smallest cog on the freewheel seems weirdly far away from the locknut and the bearings are wobbly despite my attempts to adjust them.
-Does anyone have any familiarity with the specialized hubs that came on this bike? I imagine replacing the bearings is just a matter of removing the bearing cover, getting the number of the bearing, pressing out the old ones and pressing in new ones with the same number/size... right?
-How about the rim dish... the freewheel cogs are pretty far out from the locknut- is that normal? It's like a centimeter from the face of the smallest cog to the face of the axle locknut- normally I expect the two to be closer together. I'd imagine I should just move the spacers and re-dish the wheel, but the 1985 catalog mentions that the rims are "dishless"... so maybe they made it that way because they felt like it. If someone else has an old sm-500 do your hubs have this gap?
I should probably post a picture of it... I'll get around to that eventually... for now here's just some shots of the bike.
Moots mounts! Those springs are shot though...
This was the 2nd year for the sm-500. This one is pretty original minus the cheap tires and a few period-ish changes.
Nice changes include...
-Wheel axles swapped out with quick release axles (and specialized qr levers to mach the hubs)
-Dia-compe caliper brake swapped out for a suntour xc roller cam
-Avocet touring I saddle like the one on the sm-600
-a hit rite!
It's got some issues with the rear wheel though... the smallest cog on the freewheel seems weirdly far away from the locknut and the bearings are wobbly despite my attempts to adjust them.
-Does anyone have any familiarity with the specialized hubs that came on this bike? I imagine replacing the bearings is just a matter of removing the bearing cover, getting the number of the bearing, pressing out the old ones and pressing in new ones with the same number/size... right?
-How about the rim dish... the freewheel cogs are pretty far out from the locknut- is that normal? It's like a centimeter from the face of the smallest cog to the face of the axle locknut- normally I expect the two to be closer together. I'd imagine I should just move the spacers and re-dish the wheel, but the 1985 catalog mentions that the rims are "dishless"... so maybe they made it that way because they felt like it. If someone else has an old sm-500 do your hubs have this gap?
I should probably post a picture of it... I'll get around to that eventually... for now here's just some shots of the bike.
Moots mounts! Those springs are shot though...
