I was 14 when cannondales released. We were riding 416 and 426ex and such back then. I remember when dad brought home a cannondale blaze. They required a ton of work. And they required very specific starting patterns and such when they were built. But when they were built.... nothing even in today's market could touch them. They would literally break swingarms because they made so much torque. They were definitely way ahead of their time. Had several of them over the years.
@@EasyBakinX yeah i watched a few videos on them and their starting pattern, but for being 25 years old, with electric start and fuel injection it was pretty crazy! And to hear it had that much torque? Its insane!
@SAGception07 the best part was you could change the mapping on demand. Similar to street cars with laptops today. You could have a cannibal 1 second, switch tune and have a blaze, switch tune have the speed map. They were incredible. The last quad I had was a 2006 trx450r with hrc stage 2 cams, valvework and port and polish, big gun Evo x full exhaust and carb tuning. It still didn't hold a candle to the cannondale. They also sounded like they were going to explode between your legs hahah. It seriously sounded like it had the most insane rod knock, when it was running right.
@SAGception07 the blaze was the most common on breaking the swingarms. The mapping was setup for woods racing basically and what would happen the majority of the time, you would hop a log and the rear tires would bite the log. It would cause the swingarm to crack along the main bolt. It got solved overtime but yea I'm sure there are videos in gncc races back in the day of cannondales walking the rear wheels to the left.
@@EasyBakinX wow. I figured with that power it would be something like a jump. So much wheel and engine torque that it bottoms out the suspension and tries pushing it too far
I've always known Cannondale as a bicycle. Very cool bike
Barber motorcycle museum has three of them. If you can make it to Anniston AL, you will love the museum.
I saw something about them a while ago, and I was intrigued on their engine design. They are pretty cool designs!
I was 14 when cannondales released. We were riding 416 and 426ex and such back then. I remember when dad brought home a cannondale blaze. They required a ton of work. And they required very specific starting patterns and such when they were built.
But when they were built.... nothing even in today's market could touch them. They would literally break swingarms because they made so much torque.
They were definitely way ahead of their time. Had several of them over the years.
@@EasyBakinX yeah i watched a few videos on them and their starting pattern, but for being 25 years old, with electric start and fuel injection it was pretty crazy! And to hear it had that much torque? Its insane!
@SAGception07 the best part was you could change the mapping on demand. Similar to street cars with laptops today.
You could have a cannibal 1 second, switch tune and have a blaze, switch tune have the speed map. They were incredible. The last quad I had was a 2006 trx450r with hrc stage 2 cams, valvework and port and polish, big gun Evo x full exhaust and carb tuning. It still didn't hold a candle to the cannondale.
They also sounded like they were going to explode between your legs hahah. It seriously sounded like it had the most insane rod knock, when it was running right.
@SAGception07 the blaze was the most common on breaking the swingarms. The mapping was setup for woods racing basically and what would happen the majority of the time, you would hop a log and the rear tires would bite the log. It would cause the swingarm to crack along the main bolt. It got solved overtime but yea I'm sure there are videos in gncc races back in the day of cannondales walking the rear wheels to the left.
@@EasyBakinX wow. I figured with that power it would be something like a jump. So much wheel and engine torque that it bottoms out the suspension and tries pushing it too far
Switch the motor out 👌🏻 😉 imagine a cr500 in that frame
I rode a 500 back in the 80's. Back then it was a wild ride. If I remember it only had four gears.
@@DeNyseallen it would be a monster of a machine then
It would be a waste. A proper done cannondale 440 motor shreds. Only advantage would be maybe like 5mph top speed but sacrifice tons of torque.