'Are my tyres losing air?' The first few minutes on a Cannondale SuperX is an almost surreal experience, as the carbon frame soaks up rough vibrations to the point that something feels out of place. I checked my tyres twice the first time I rode this bike on a cyclocross course.
Brilliantly designed and damped frameset
Cannondale engineers have done an admirable job with carbon road frames recently; the Synapse is perhaps the plushest endurance bike I’ve ridden recently, and the SuperSix is a coiled spring of a race machine. The SuperX feels like a bit of both. Yes, it embodies that tired bike industry saying: laterally stiff yet vertically compliant. But it’s true!
What’s impressive about the SuperX is that the frame provides the suspension, not the seatpost. On the Synapse, for example, the very long and very narrow (25.4mm) post flexes visibly under load. Here, it’s the flattened seat- and chainstays that mop up the chatter.
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Cannondale employs its own compact cranks with the 'cross-standard 46/36 rings
In this age of compact frames, the SuperX sports a relatively tall seat tube. Also, the traditional horizontal top tube combines with the extended seat tube collar to leaves very little seatpost exposed – at least for riders like me with relatively short legs. The bike shown here is a 56cm with a 76cm saddle height. I’m 6ft/183cm.
Rolling stock niggles
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