The passing of Cannondale co-founder and industry icon Joe Montgomery, last Friday aged 86, has reignited memories of a brand known for delivering some of the quirkiest hits. Montgomery was considered a pioneer, known for his creative ideas that pushed the boundaries of bicycle design at a time when everything looked the same and followed a cookie-cutter design philosophy.
Together with Murdoch MacGregor and Ron Davis, Montgomery founded Cannondale in 1971 in a rented space often referred to as the ‘lab’, located above a pickle factory across from the Cannondale train station. This would later become the rhetoric behind the company name, and Halo Lab71 nomenclature now affixed to the brand's top models.
