Cannondale has been making bikes for more than 50 years and, among the wide range of models it has developed in that time, the SuperSix has proved to be one of its most enduring and popular platforms. Born out of the original SystemSix design that was made in Bedford, Massachusetts in the US, the SuperSix launched in 2008 as Cannondale’s first full-carbon race bike, its design almost entirely about attaining a formidable stiffness-to-weight ratio.
‘The first SuperSix was a crazy, lightweight bike that was oriented entirely around stiffness and weight,’ says David Devine, senior product director at Cannondale. ‘It was primarily focussed on Grand Tour racing, where stiffness and weight were the two main components that drove performance. We had an Italian WorldTour team [Liquigas] and for them sensation really mattered. The SuperSix was a bike that had high stiffness, low weight and gave a rocket-like sensation, and people loved it.’
When Cannondale moved its production from
