Team Frames Arrive: It IS About the Bike

Working with long time team sponsors Bike Doctor and Cannondale, Team Latitude/ABRT put together a terrific team deal on CAAD9 and H-Mod SuperSix framesets. Both framesets come in unique Team Latitude/ABRT colors. The CAAD9 also has upgrades not unavailable on a stock 2009 CAAD9, a BB30 bottom bracket and an all carbon fork.

The attractive pricing, team colors -- if more than ten framesets were ordered -- and the great reputation of Cannondale, the CAAD9 and the SuperSix, made this a very attractive offer to team members, and something like 39 CAAD9 and 6 SystemSix framesets were ordered. While the initial requirement for team colors was ten frames of each, Cannondale – under encouragement from the ABRT BoD – graciously agreed to do the SystemSix framesets in team colors in addition to the CAAD9s.

Team Latitude/ABRT Hi-Mod SuperSix



Some ABRT members worked with Cannondale on the color schemes, and part way through the process two images were released.

With everyone sitting on their hands waiting and writing frequent e-mails asking when the frames would arrive, it seemed to take forever. But earlier this week the first two frames arrived at one of the Bike Doctor stores, and a day or two later large numbers were there.

Team Latitude/ABRT CAAD9



The wheelsucker acutely feels his age and his lack of short, medium and long interval power, and seeks to mitigate these issues by training effectively and having really good equipment, so the wheelsucker is in for BOTH a CAAD9 AND a Hi-Mod SuperSix.

In the wheelsucker's 58cm size, these weigh:

	frame w/seatpost clamp	fork
CAAD9	1360.4g	450.2g
HMS6	1090.7g	357.1g

These will replace his current CAAD9, which is one of the lightest CAAD9s in the world, and his even lighter Scott CR1 SL. So why replace one perfectly good CAAD9 with another? And why replace a 13 lb. 4oz. Scott C1 SL with a Hi Mod SuperSix, you ask? It must be the team colors. The wheelsucker has to admit it is all about the look.

They look great in real life