In the second part of Cannondale’s 2016 road launch it introduced an all-new alloy platform that will be available in both caliper and disc brake models.
Cannondale has to be considered the originator of aluminium bikes. It was the first to push the material in high-end bike manufacturing back in 1983 and we're now looking at the latest iteration 30 years later.
The last generation CAAD10 received rave reviews, with the disc and the track-specific models also being well regarded. The team at Cannondale noticed that plenty of bikes were being very highly specced with upgrades, not surprising when the CAAD10 weighed just over a kilo, which is approaching carbon-frame-weight. So the CAAD12 aims to out-do the CAAD10 and its latest rivals like BMC’s ALR and Trek’s similarly named Émonda ALR.
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First up it's 200g lighter (for its system weight – frame, fork, headset, and fork), with a 10 per cent overall stiffness increase and a 20 per cent stiffness improvement in the bottom bracket. All of which results in a 13 per cent increase in the frame's strength to weight ratio, a 30 per cent inrease in the fork's strength to weight ratio and a claimed 50 per cent increase in vertical compliance.
The Cannondale advanced aluminium design – CAAD – has been radically revamped with a new process called ‘Smartformed Alloy’. This is a mix of hydroforming, taper butting, mechanical shaping, 3D forging, and using double-pass smooth welds and post-weld heat treatments.
The process controls the material distribution and tube shapes with a new design protocol called tube flow modelling. This computing-heavy analytical design tool works through hundreds of virtual simulations to find the optimal tube shape and material needed from engineer-designed parameters.
- Cannondale Hollowgram SiSL2 chainset
- Hi-Mod fork (280g)
- Mavic Kysrium Pro WTS
- Save 180g post
- Dura Ace 9000
- Arione R3 saddle
- 6.74kg/14.8lbs (56cm)
- CAAD12 Speed Save full carbon disc fork
- Mavic Kysrium Disc WTS
- Cannodale Hollowgram Si chainset
- Shimano Dura Ace mechs
- Ultegra cassette
- R685 shifters
- 785 brakes
- Speedsave carbon post
- Fizik Arione R7 saddle
- 7.64kg (56cm)
- Cannodale Hollowgram Si chainset
- SRAM Red 22
- Mavic Kysrium WTS
- Fizik Arione R7
- Speed Save carbon post
- 7.2kg (56cm)
- Cannondale Hollowgram Si chainset
- Shimano Ultegra
- R685 shifters
- 785/805 hydraulic disc brakes
- Speed Save carbon post
- 8.34kg (56cm)
- Cannondale Hollowgram Si chainset
- Shimano Ultegra
- Mavic Aksium Elite WTS
- Cannondale C2 UD carbon post
- Fizik Arione R7 saddle
- 7.5kg (56cm)
- Cannondale Si chainset
- Maddux/Formula wheels
- Cannodale C2 UD carbon post
- Selle Royal Seta SL saddle
- 8.6kg (56cm)
- Cannodale Si chainset
- Mavic Aksium wheels
- Shimano 105
- Cannodale C2 carbon post
- Selle Royal Seta SL saddle
- 8.05kg (56cm)
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