Cannondale has introduced a new SuperX, this new 2025 version of what was their range topping cyclo-cross bike returns as a stripped-back gravel race platform with the lowest frame weights below 900g. The design team says the new bike is 1.6 watts more efficient than the Cannondale SuperSix EVO SE gravel bike at 35 km/h (21.7mph), while comfort is delivered through ‘flex zones’ in the seat tube, rear triangle, and top tube. The bottom section of the seat tube is spectacularly skinny. The new SuperX comes in three builds and two different carbon layups. Previous versions of the SuperX – starting from 2010 – were cyclocross bikes. That has changed with this new incarnation which Cannondale describes as “a pure gravel race machine”. It takes over from the SuperSix EVO SE gravel bike and SuperSix Evo CX cyclocross bike; they’re both discontinued. Cannondale felt the labelling was confusing, so it decided to return to the SuperX name which dropped out of their range as a complete bike in 2021. Cannondale still has its Topstone all-rounder gravel bikes, which are about due an update, while the SuperX is focused on speed. Lachlan Morton, the Aussie gravel/road racer who rides for EF Education-EasyPost, won last year’s Unbound Gravel race on a Cannondale SuperSix EVO SE gravel bike. Cannondale says that the new SuperX is “a refinement of what was already a race-winning bike”.
“When designing the bike, the team focused on three main areas,” says Cannondale’s engineering manager Steve Smith “The first […]
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