The best endurance road bikes combine a comfortable ride position with heaps of versatility – including features such as mudguard or pannier rack mounts – and speed, to create a useful platform that will fare well no matter the ride. Cannondale Synapse Carbon LTD RLE specificationsĮndurance Bike of the Year 2022 | How we tested So, it’s impressive to find out that the new Synapse chassis weighs in at just a few grams more than its slimmer UCI-ready 2018 predecessor at 1,035g compared with 1,015g, most of which comes from the extra hardware (four more bottle bolts and end caps on the thru-axle). I’d have expected the addition of a bunch of extra mounts, larger clearances and a heavier bottom bracket shell standard to add a lot of weight. It ensures that the largest 61cm frame size and the smallest 48cm share the same ride quality. ![]() This method of creating carbon frames means each individual frame size has its own construction, including tube diameters. The frame also adopts the dropped-stay design from the EVO, SystemSix and CAAD13, and gets Cannondale’s ‘proportional response construction’. Perhaps the biggest surprise in this new ‘practical’ offering, however, is the switch from Cannondale’s signature lightweight BB30 bottom bracket standard shell, replaced by a threaded BSA bottom bracket shell. There is a 27.2mm seat post which integrates with the SmartSense light and Di2 battery. This sees the brake hoses exit the bar at the SAVE stem, channel down through the fork and then through a single port in the down tube that also channels the Di2 cables and the wiring for the front light down to the central down-tube mounted battery.Įlsewhere, there’s the practicality of top-tube mounts for a bag, triple bottle mounts, proper mudguard mounts and even removable extension inserts for the thru-axles to make the Synapse smart-trainer compatible.Īlso out goes the fiddly integrated seat clamp of the previous Synapse, replaced with a simple old-school ring binder wrapped around a slotted seat tube. ![]() The aero-benefiting, yet intricate internal routing found on both the SuperSix EVO and SystemSix are replaced with a simpler system. The details on the Synapse are all about making it an easy bike to live with. The frame and fork have clearance for 35c tyres (with 6mm of clearance either side), and the bike can even run the standard 30c tyres with full mudguards without issue. However, even that is upped to a 32c tyre on this limited model.
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