Killer V frame build up.

[sparkybhp]

So, I’ve been hankering after one of these in my size for a fair while - ever since I saw a guy riding one in London I’ve been smitten. It had to be an early one with the ‘mud cutter’ rear dropouts and in raw aluminium.
Cheers @muppetman, he offered this one in the for sale section and I managed to buy it from him.
It arrived well packed and accurately described. Basically in good condition, needs a full polish, has one bottle cage nut loose in the frame and a ding in the left seat stay.

 

[sparkybhp]

I managed to cut the loose bottle cage nut in half carefully with my dremel and then fish it out via a hole inside the head tube..
I took it to the welders today and had them fill the ding in the seat stay and then filed, sanded and polished it back.
Almost impossible to tell it had a ding now, result!
Heaps more polishing now, followed by fresh decals, lacquer and then build..
I have a full XT 730 group which I’m thinking of fitting, but not 100% decided.
Will post updates as I progress..

 

[sparkybhp]

Oh, and possibly these forks..?

 

[Elev12k]

I found them very nice when introduced. One of the most interesting Canondales imo. The early suspension Cannondales are also interesting, but this Killer you can use every day.

Not a fan of the fork. I prefer the Pepperoni.

 

[sparkybhp]

Not a fan of the fork. I prefer the Pepperoni.

Yeah, shame but it didn’t come with a set of pepperoni forks. My M800 has those and I have a SM500 with rigid (tange) forks. I’m keen to make this a hardtail and have a couple of other options but the bombers are the only ones I have which will allow canti’s..

 

[muppetman]

Glad you got the cage nut out, it drove me mad rattling around! I had it built up with some Onza rigid segmented forks and it was a lovely ride. Nice work on the dent as well!

 

[enc]

That seat stay tube repair gives new meaning to the term "smart repair" great job

 

[chumaman]

Killer..killer.....M size already something easier to find , L some ,XL quite difficult
For that fork you need to get a shim 1 1/4 - 1 1/8
https://www.bike24.com/p2126254.html

looking forward to the progress

 

[sparkybhp]

For that fork you need to get a shim 1 1/4 - 1 1/8

Not true! Early ones were 1 1/8” - later changed to 1 1/4”, lucky as I have 3 options for suspension fork in 1 1/8”.

 

[chumaman]

first time I hear about that fact because the frame is 94 'mine is very early according to the serial number and I saw a lot of them all were 1 1/4 because the pepperoni forks......

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/killer-amp.393784/