Cannondale
| Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
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| legal form | subsidiary |
| founding | 1971 |
| Seat | Bethel (Connecticut) , USA |
| Number of employees | unpublished |
| sales | unpublished |
| Branch | Bicycle manufacturer |
| Website | www.cannondale.com |
Cannondale is an American bicycle , motocross and quad bike manufacturer . The company is based in Bethel, Connecticut , and the company's manufacturing facilities are in Bedford, Pennsylvania . In 2010, Cannondale moved most of its production to Taichung , Taiwan. The company is named after the Cannondale station on the Metro-North Railroad , which is not far from the company's headquarters.
history
The company was founded in 1971 by Joe Montgomery as a manufacturer of bicycle trailers . Today Cannondale makes a wide variety of handcrafted bicycles to meet a wide variety of needs. The company is a pioneer in the development of aluminum frames . Numerous inventions have been patented in the course of the company's history. Cannondale attaches great importance to official sellers of their products and in the past has often taken strict action against gray imports. After a bankruptcy in 2003, the company was taken over by Dinli Industrial Company Ltd. , a Taiwanese quad manufacturer, bought the bicycle factory from Pegasus, an investor group from the USA. With the exception of a few models, the Cannondale company gives the first owner a lifelong guarantee against material and manufacturing defects for their frames.
At the beginning of 2008, the Canadian conglomerate Dorel , the fourth largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, bought the Cannondale brand and manages it together with other brands such as GT Bicycles , Schwinn and Mongoose under the leadership of the Cycling Sports Group.
In May 2010, Cannondale entered into a development partnership for e-bikes with Robert Bosch GmbH . The Stuttgart electronics group Bosch is supplying a newly developed high-performance drive for this.
Frame construction
Cannondale is a pioneer in the manufacture of aluminum frames. This know-how is the basis for the construction of many of the company's bikes to this day. Cannondale introduced the product name CAAD (Cannondale Advanced Aluminum Design) and continued to develop it from the early 1980s. While aluminum was used almost exclusively as a frame material for a long time, carbon is now increasingly used as a material. This is found mainly in the higher-priced models in order to achieve a greater weight reduction than is possible with aluminum.
Another technology from Cannondale is SAVE (Synapse Active Vibration Elimination), which uses a special tube shape to reduce vibration to a minimum.
Like almost all manufacturers in the industry, Cannondale has its frames and components made of carbon and aluminum in Asia. The label “Handmade in USA” can therefore only be found on the old models, the last time in the 2010 model year.
On complete bicycles with Cannondal frames, there are also often components that are labeled with the CODA brand .
Sponsorship
Cannondale sponsors numerous cycling teams .
Cannondale's sponsorship of professional cycling teams began with the Saeco team in the late 1990s, which u. a. won four stages of the 1999 Tour de France with Mario Cipollini . The Saeco team won the Giro d'Italia three times, 1997 with Ivan Gotti , 2003 with Gilberto Simoni , 2004 with Damiano Cunego. In 2005 the collaboration between Cannondale and Saeco ended. It was also the outfitter of the former Team Barloworld , a European Professional Continental Team .
From 2007 to 2014 Cannondale equipped the Italian ProTeam Liquigas and in 2011 also became the second name sponsor of this team and, since 2012, the first name sponsor. At the end of 2013, Cannondale also took over the majority stake in the operating company of the team, which was later called Cannondale . The team could u. a. win the Giro d'Italia 2007 with Danilo Di Luca and the Giro d'Italia 2010 with Ivan Basso . In 2015, Cannondale became a sponsor of the American Cannondale-Garmin team .
In the mountain biking sector, Cannondale sponsors the Cannondale-Vredestein (formerly Volvo / Cannondale) team, the Bear Naked / Cannondale team (formerly SoBe / Cannondale). Many well-known drivers have been sponsored by Cannondale throughout their careers, including world champions Anne-Caroline Chausson and Missy Giove , Olympic silver medalist Alison Sydor , bronze medalist Christoph Sauser , Cadel Evans , Kashi Leuchs.
In 2005, Cannondale sponsored the Ironman world champion Faris Al-Sultan , Dejan Patrčević , Croatian triathlon champion and the three-time Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cannondale Limited Warranty ( Memento July 23, 2008 on the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 28, 2008.
- ↑ broadwayworld.com of October 23, 2013: Cannondale Acquires Majority Ownership of Cannondale Pro Cycling and Brixia Sports ( Memento of November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )