1992 cannondale m800 beast of the east PIC HEAVY

[mfh126]

Why not send the numbers to Cannondale themselves, and see if they can shed any light on it.

They won't be able to help. I tried that with my M600 and all they could tell me was the frame series (i.e. 3.0, 3.8, etc.) and date of manufacture. Unfortunately the model numbers are not referenced in the serial numbers. I figured out mine was an M600 by the leftover paint I found in the dropouts.

 

[Mauhum]

I find it incredible that a bike manufacturing company cannot trace a frame number back to the model they made!!!!!!! Completely mad!!! What's the point of putting the number on in the 1st place? Officer I've had my bike stolen.... it's a M700. OK sonny we have a bike here with a reference number XXXXXXXXXXX. Is this your M700? I don't know because Cannondale can't tell me if it's a M700 or not!!!! :roll: OK Ok I know that if you had kept the frame number etc etc, but still seems bizarre.

Mauhum

 

[timdrayton1]

I have red paint left over in the fork dropout think it used to be red..... Anyone?

The cranks are suntour comp md and alegedly original, which would indicate a m1000, but are the framesets identical throughout the mxxx line?

Getting all antiques roadshow, which is worth more a mxxx 3.0 frame or a beast of the east?

 

[MattyZaskar]

That is a stunning build

 

[utahdog2003]

I don't know... Not exactly a Beast like bottom bracket height. :?

Still a bad-ass bike though.

 

[utahdog2003]

As for price, there isn't enough of a value difference, in my experience. Condition is the determining factor for old Cannondales, value-wise. Yours is in great shape, so there you go.

Although if somebody wants to tell my my 93 Beast is worth millions, well then I'd be more than happy to listen.

 

[24pouces]

anyhoo frame number is 51502926160 on the right stay there is B1-039

I'm sure… sorry.
For reading your frame number :
5 (rear drop out spacing : 135mm) 15 (the size of the frame) 0292 (your frame was product in february of 92)6160 (sequence number).

So your frame is a small 15" classic 3.0, not a" Beast of the East"
The smaller size of the Beast of the East frame was 18", but if you consider the highest BB, the seat tube seems to be a 15". Other difference between the 2 frames : On a BotE, the seat stays are weld in the same level. On the small 15", the seat stays are weld higher than the horizontal tube.

So, your bike can't be a M800 or a M600, the only 2 bikes sold with a Beast of the East frame.

But good news : your bike should be more stable in downhills, because your gravity center is lower . I've got a 15" frame too, and I ride it with a lot of pleasure

 

[24pouces]

For knowing all things about C'dale, have a look at my friend's website,
vintagecannondale.
You'll find all catalogs, serial number… and a gallery.

All C'dale from the SM400 to the SM omega have the same frame (except the One or 2 bikes with the BotE frame). Only the groupo changed.
So, a classic level frame (yours is sloping because of the small size) equiped with suntour XC comp MD was M1000. With shimano XT, it was M2000…

On other hand, the classic top level and the BotE sloping frame were both 3.0 series frame

 

[timdrayton1]

Thanks for all the help guys!

I not too bothered what it is (as long as i didnt miss out on the holy grail of bikes....) and im pretty chuffed with how it rides. I find it really hard to get bikes to fit, and this one fits me great.

Bit of an odd one on how i came to own it, i drove all the way to wales to pick up an epic, saw the framset hanging on their wall with the chainset an mechs still attached. I was far more excited about it than the epic i had gone to buy, so the guys wife offered it me for £30.

I accepted.

When ive gotten rid of my extra bits i reckon its set me back about £400 ( the build got out of hand....)

So it does what i wanted it to do, a light hardtail for a 20 mile bridleway pootle. (ive got a roadbike for the road and a mountainbike for cannock etc).

I sold the epic, it was neither light or a hardtail....

 

[utahdog2003]

I sold the epic, it was neither light or a hardtail....

Good man.