Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:57 pm
Being the admin here, I hate to give you bad news, but
Basically, there are good ones and there are bads ones, the trick is finding one of the good ones. There where some manufacturing problems that effect the motors and cause the cranks to grenade. Of course, when this happens it requires a complete rebuild. The good thing is that there are solutions to the problem if your willing to spend the time and money.
As far as the kids riding it. I can't say wether your kids can handle one or not, but I will tell you my 15 year old doesn't ride mine too often. He rides a 400ex and will be racing a Mojave this year, both have a ton of mods done to them, he also rides my AC 500 all the time. The Cannondale is a race bred machine and can be a handfull, not exactly built for putting around the trails. If you like ripping up the trails, it's a fine machine.
That being said, there are several guys on here around the same age as your kids that ride Dales, and I've yet to hear of any of them having any major crashes or getting hurt.
I'll probably get banned for this post:cry:
Basically, there are good ones and there are bads ones, the trick is finding one of the good ones. There where some manufacturing problems that effect the motors and cause the cranks to grenade. Of course, when this happens it requires a complete rebuild. The good thing is that there are solutions to the problem if your willing to spend the time and money.
As far as the kids riding it. I can't say wether your kids can handle one or not, but I will tell you my 15 year old doesn't ride mine too often. He rides a 400ex and will be racing a Mojave this year, both have a ton of mods done to them, he also rides my AC 500 all the time. The Cannondale is a race bred machine and can be a handfull, not exactly built for putting around the trails. If you like ripping up the trails, it's a fine machine.
That being said, there are several guys on here around the same age as your kids that ride Dales, and I've yet to hear of any of them having any major crashes or getting hurt.
I'll probably get banned for this post:cry: