Oh my god! I'm also a killer V fanatic. Bought my medium from 'On your Bike', Tooley Street, London way back in the 90's. Have hammered it on and off road in London, France on trails and downhill. Always feel like a king when I ride it. Worst crash of my life on this bike, over the bonnet of a taxi on my birthday, landed on my face! Upgraded with a Fatty Ultra fork from 'Sid's Bikes' NYC. Respray in black with yellow decals, and then plenty of upgrades. I'm now riding it as a commuter with schwalbe big apple tyres burning up the fixed wheel newbies in London town! It still is and always will be the absolute nuts of a bike. But what you have done here is spectacular! The finish is amazing and I've always thought about upgrading to disk brakes, how is it working out? Will you be gutted if the suits now running Cannondale steal all your vision and decide to re-release the K-V with all these upgrades? Still you can always say you were the first. Joe
There's just something special about the KillerVs.
There's still a few things I want to do to the bike. I've still got the lefty servicing to do, new boots and seals, just waiting on the special lefty tools to arrive. Now that will be a bit of an adventure.
I'm not 100% happy with the decals yet, more so the "C" logos. I put the seat tube one a bit twisted, but I've got plenty of spares to redo it. I managed to get one of the new metal "C" logos for the head tube. Which will probably need widened a touch to suit the KillerV head tube since the new head tubes are tapered slightly.
Well there's been a few new retro bikes sold by various companies recently, so certainly it's not out of the question and the KillerV defeinately has a certain "cult" following so perhaps there is a possible market there. Would I gutted after the hours and cost... No chance, I'd probably be one of the first in line to get one! Not to mention the majoity of the parts I used are Cannondale, I just brought them all together. I know I've pumped in way more money into this bike than it deserves, but it's been an absolute labour of love, and I'd do it again tomorrow.
As for the disk brakes, they've been working flawlessly, I couldn't be happier. The adapter has been great and not required any adjustment since installing it. There's an occasional bit of brake squeal in the wet, but that's probably down to my choice of the Avid Juicy Threes more than anything since it occurs on the front and rear.
Killer V Wondering on details you took to upgrade. Chicago Killer V fan and looking for knowledge to upgrade my 900. Any info you can share would be appreciated. Any interest is selling your pictured Killer V?
All the info from day one is on this blog. just look in the archives. The bike has pretty much changed in every way from the original bike I bought.
I've recently had a few interested people in buying it, but it's been a labour of love and I really put in more money than I should have. Not to mention the Lefty specific tools etc. So if I did sell I'm sure it wouldn't get the price I'd want. That being said I'm sure I'd part with it for the right money and make another... I'd already started on my next "KillerV". The frame and forks is in the post to me at the moment. But this time it's an F1000 in small with the Killer V style frame. But this new frame is a CAAD4, has factory rear disk mounts and with the original Purpleen flip paint. (See here)
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Oh my god! I'm also a killer V fanatic. Bought my medium from 'On your Bike', Tooley Street, London way back in the 90's. Have hammered it on and off road in London, France on trails and downhill. Always feel like a king when I ride it. Worst crash of my life on this bike, over the bonnet of a taxi on my birthday, landed on my face! Upgraded with a Fatty Ultra fork from 'Sid's Bikes' NYC. Respray in black with yellow decals, and then plenty of upgrades. I'm now riding it as a commuter with schwalbe big apple tyres burning up the fixed wheel newbies in London town! It still is and always will be the absolute nuts of a bike. But what you have done here is spectacular! The finish is amazing and I've always thought about upgrading to disk brakes, how is it working out? Will you be gutted if the suits now running Cannondale steal all your vision and decide to re-release the K-V with all these upgrades? Still you can always say you were the first. Joe
cheers Joe,
There's just something special about the KillerVs.
There's still a few things I want to do to the bike. I've still got the lefty servicing to do, new boots and seals, just waiting on the special lefty tools to arrive. Now that will be a bit of an adventure.
I'm not 100% happy with the decals yet, more so the "C" logos. I put the seat tube one a bit twisted, but I've got plenty of spares to redo it. I managed to get one of the new metal "C" logos for the head tube. Which will probably need widened a touch to suit the KillerV head tube since the new head tubes are tapered slightly.
Well there's been a few new retro bikes sold by various companies recently, so certainly it's not out of the question and the KillerV defeinately has a certain "cult" following so perhaps there is a possible market there. Would I gutted after the hours and cost... No chance, I'd probably be one of the first in line to get one! Not to mention the majoity of the parts I used are Cannondale, I just brought them all together. I know I've pumped in way more money into this bike than it deserves, but it's been an absolute labour of love, and I'd do it again tomorrow.
As for the disk brakes, they've been working flawlessly, I couldn't be happier. The adapter has been great and not required any adjustment since installing it. There's an occasional bit of brake squeal in the wet, but that's probably down to my choice of the Avid Juicy Threes more than anything since it occurs on the front and rear.
Killer V
Wondering on details you took to upgrade. Chicago Killer V fan and looking for knowledge to upgrade my 900.
Any info you can share would be appreciated.
Any interest is selling your pictured Killer V?
All the info from day one is on this blog. just look in the archives. The bike has pretty much changed in every way from the original bike I bought.
I've recently had a few interested people in buying it, but it's been a labour of love and I really put in more money than I should have. Not to mention the Lefty specific tools etc. So if I did sell I'm sure it wouldn't get the price I'd want. That being said I'm sure I'd part with it for the right money and make another... I'd already started on my next "KillerV". The frame and forks is in the post to me at the moment. But this time it's an F1000 in small with the Killer V style frame. But this new frame is a CAAD4, has factory rear disk mounts and with the original Purpleen flip paint. (See here)
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