Cannondale is best known for its aluminium road bikes and exotic racing machines. But its very first bike was actually a tourer – and our tester rode his (later stolen) Cannondale tourer 3000 miles in three months in four continents back in the day, and rarely stops talking about it…
The 2017 Touring 2 comes with a triple chainset, a rare sight these days, although on bikes made for versatility and practicality they still make sense.
On a bike weighing 12kg the third chainring’s extra weight is neither here nor there, though depending on what you’re planning on using the bike for, we don’t feel that Cannondale has made the most of going triple. It has paired the Sora 50/39/30 chainset with an 11-30 cassette. For a lot of day-to-day use, leisure riding and commuting this’ll be absolutely fine, but the whopping 50x11 top gear is probably overkill 90 per cent of the time.
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The 30x30 bottom is low enough for most eventualities, but if you’re touring heavily laden and reach the foot of a long or steep hill, you could find yourself pushing.
If any rides like that are pencilled in to your diary, we’d consider swapping the chainset for a 44/32/22, dropping the bottom gear hugely, or maybe a ‘halfway-house’ 48/36/26 like the Ridgeback.
Shifting isn’t quite as slick as with Shimano’s more expensive groupsets, and this Sora also has the cables dangling untidily in front of the bar, but it never missed a shift.
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