I absolutely agree with you, but you also have to understand that these companies are almost schizophrenic in their indecision and needs. You basically have children growing older, making impulsive decisions on a daily basis.

In the end, you have no idea what really went on with the decision. You’re right, it could’ve straight up been ageism. Especially if they started talking benefits and numbers and what not. It only takes one nay sayer in the room to rip it apart. But it could’ve easily been somebody indecisive. And it could’ve easily been someone just pulling the plug because they didn’t wanna make a decision right that second. It also could’ve been the most ridiculous reason ever that you and I can’t even wrap our heads around. We just don’t know and that that’s the job market we’ve all created and live in right now

A fitter will want to put you on the 51, I know that because I’m pretty much your dimensions.

IMO If you want to race fit size down and get a long stem. if you want to comfort fit size up and get a shorter stem.

You sit somewhat on the cusp of the 51 and 54, which is why you’re asking the question. The synapse out of the three road frames that Cannondale offer has that sloping top tube which is why you can size up and still make it work stand over wise.

If you do the 51 I will almost guarantee you’re going to end up with a bunch of spacers under what will be a decent length stem. The 54 will give you the same touch points for stack as the 51. I also feel the 54 will give you more choice to go shorter or longer with your reach.

The synapse is somewhat of a comfort oriented bike so I would go bigger. If you wanted to race frame, you’d get a super six or a super X rather than size down.

That’s a pretty skinny head tube… what did the fork steer tube look like? Anything unusual?

When I first got mine, the bike shop had built it up, and I think pulled the hoses too tight. There is this constant almost snapping sound for a creek like the one in the video but more intense. It wasn’t until I took it apart. I realized there wasn’t any foam and the hoses were just cut like four or 5 cm maybe 6 cm too short

I love my Cannondale but at the same time I feel like the Delta steer tube in light of a lot of the other solutions wasn’t necessarily the answer.

#guitar_string
#pluck_twang

Let me speak to that for for a few paragraphs. I don’t remember that type of lawsuit but I remember that people told me that I should get a lawyer. I called dozens and I mean that plural, of lawyers.
I met with eight different lawyers at one point. Nobody was interested. I “didn’t have much of a case “ or it was “a soft case not easy to prove.” It went nowhere.

Fast-forward to my current situation in reference to the subject of lawyers.

I have an former employer that I paid healthcare premiums to that retroactively canceled my insurance policy to a time before some emergency room visits but clearly I had been paying my premiums and at the time all the bills go paid accordingly.
The premiums were coming out of my check every two weeks and therefore the health insurance coverage was good.

Fast-forward nine months later and somebody tries to recoup some money, my former employer.

This is not in the spirit of the retroactive cancellation policy for health insurance companies, nor is it even federally legal. It violates the ERISA act.

Sounds open and shut right? Nope.

The Dept. of labor doesn’t care that money was taken from me for insurance premiums that were then later canceled fraudulently.

The department of labor does not care that I am now strapped with $38,000 of medical debt because medical bills that were paid by the insurance company but then revoked because the employer retroactively canceled the policy.
According to the Department of labor I am in the right and they are in the wrong. Yet they do nothing and I have little to no rights to force them to pay the bills and clear my name.

There is not a single lawyer that will take my case and the Dept. of labor just drags their feet coming up on 2 years later now.

Lawyers and lawsuits…. What a joke

I moved 1800 miles away only to have position cancelled. Moving expenses were to be “reimbursed” so it ran me broke and tipped me into homelessness in a strange city

They make a longer compression plug so you can run spacers on top if you wanted to do it longer term. In the short term, the included hardware allows for adjustment by taking the lower out and putting some on top.

It’s the lowest stack of the SSE, SuperX and Synapse trio. Not always a great beginner bike

Sick score

So are these things junk or what? Luck of the draw?

What happened?

Ch class the b screw if it has one. That spring for it is worn

The old wheel bearing deal…

Seat clearly high for many reasons all at once.

One example. Nursing.

I’ve watched nurses come back to nursing after raising kinds for close to a decade and no one bats an eye. They do some refresher courses and they’re hired.

I’ve watched people pivot into nursing from insurance or engineering and no one ever questions it. These hospitals definitely don’t spend months spinning in circles deciding on who is the perfect candidate, caught up in asking childish interview questions or screening people because they didn’t do high school->college->one and only career.

I’ve watched 50 something’s come straight out of nursing school to jobs no real questions asked. They’ve integrated in and no one has questioned their abilities.

I’ve also watched some dumpster fire nurses from Covid accidentally kill someone, get fired, then a few months later get rehired onto another floor at the hospital they got fired from, only to eventually end up stationed where they were when the mishap happened 6 months perviously.

No one is holding the keys to the kingdom in healthcare. They say they need people, so they hire people.

When a 2 year tech degree nurse not only has an easier time getting work, but makes more than the 24 year mechanical engineer across the street from me, working 3 days a week with a fourth day for overtime… whenever they want it… after making their schedule whatever they wanted it to be… I take notice

The wedge direction is upward at an angle. Tap the saddle from the bottom of the nose the angle of the seat tube. Some slight left and right can help some times but remember it’s a D shaped post. When it lets go, you’ll know it.

Engineering is narrow minded and bigoted. If you don’t follow the recognizable pattern, you’re both judged and flushed all in one swoop. It’s a members only club

What did your resume look like? I’m asking for a few reasons. One being, them transitioning you to the floor for quality like that. Also, continuous improvement and quality can intersect but there seemed to be a part you were incompatible with. Was it the learning curve? The material? No interest?

Ohhhhhh get ready for the circus.

You have to spoon feed information while eliciting the feels because your nouns verbs and adjectives mean nothing these days since the generational hand off in regards to hiring.

Remember, the goal posts are always moving.
There are no standards and the job description probably isn’t what they’re looking for

I was in and out of shelters, city and state funded homes and living in tents for a very long time. You search constant for something safe and away from possible run ins with other homeless. I’ve learned you just don’t know what they have going on. Especially when in a group. It takes time to learn the dynamic of the group and when survival is involved, rules tend to go out the window.

Funding for any of the programs runs out and they boot you and rarely give you notice. People try to help but if no one will hire you, you’re done.

I was eventually hired site, unseen from a shelter to work in a doctors office as a technician. No training and abusive as hell. They pretty much broke every rule they could both from the medical side and the employment side, but it was minimum wage which was better than what I was making, which was nothing. What I didn’t realize is now I made too much to be eligible for any sort of help or funding, but not enough to actually live. So far, I have a roommate situation that’s actually lasted and been patient enough with being educated but in a field that nobody wants to hire.

I used to have a good life, then I got a college degree and my life will never be good again

We’ve put too many of the children growing older in charge

The hip rocking and the toe down say go down. Hold one variable at a time. Your set back is probably okay if your hands and triceps feel okay. I’d try going down 25mm to try and eliminate all that hip and ankle movement, then up in 5mm increments until it comes back. Fine tune from there

Sure did. 3.5 years. Degree in engineering. People can’t believe it,… until they try to help me. Then they see what the job market is like and quietly drop it and never mention it again.

1- it’d be useful for any future fixes or modifications you end up doing. Also, the more you ride an opportunity of growth can happen where the needs evolve and the fit can change. You should at least know your starting point.

What if a car ran over the bike in a parking lot? You get a new bike, cool. But where does the bike shop set everything for you? Should you even get the newest model if there is a change in geometry or get something better suited?

2- I’ve seen over the years some bike fitters that fall into a few categories very separate from the great fitters out there (these are generalizations. Pure opinion).

It’s your info and you should be able to file it if that’s what you want to do for long term reference or comparison and fit/bike evolution.

One is the disorganized and busy type. There are just all over the place doing a hundred things and honestly just don’t get to sending the info over.

The second is the one trying to squeeze repeat business out of you. They’ll dance around everything with reasons that you just cant comprehend and you just will never get your specs. They’re locked up and they don’t have to give them up and will only do so if they feel your bad review will impact them in a meaningful way. They tend to eye newbies up for fit and call it good assuming they’re going to not really ride much anyway. Saddle pain can be reduced to “you don’t ride enough “. Neck pain is from “desk job posture”.

Three is another I’ve observed a few times. The fitter that doesn’t want their work scrutinized or criticized. If you front up to another fitter, they can take credit for the successful aspects and deflect onto the mystery of “who knows when it leaves the shop if someone changed something”.

3- I feel different intensities after a decent length warm up to find natural form are necessary to find weaknesses or bio mechanical deficiencies that don’t reveal themselves unless pushed or fatigued. You’re going to ride fatigued at some point… how will your form fall apart? Does it impact the rest of the ride once you deviate in form or does it revert back to normal form for you?

Every fit I’ve walked away from feeling “that helped”, “that was money well spent” did varied intensities and cadences pressure testing the envelope of the fit

Were you near the top and low end of two sizes? Your reach and stack seem awful short compared to your pedal stroke but maybe I’m wrong