Sneak Peek: Prototype Cannondale SuperSix Evo 4 Street Bikes of EF Racing, Coming Quickly!

Cannondale has a brand new, extra aero SuperSix Evo 4 coming apparently very quickly, as its Lab71 prototypes have already been noticed coaching & racing underneath their EF Training-Tibco SVB girls’s & EF Training Easypost males’s professional groups. Plus, it’s already been authorized by the UCI at three completely different carbon layup ranges, and Cannondale don’t appear too anxious about hiding it.

The bike even sat entrance & heart in one in all their crew photoshoots. And has been zipping up the street all through the Tour Down Underneath this previous week…

2023 Cannondale SuperSix Evo 4… Lab71 prototypes?

First off, due to the checklist of UCI Accepted framesets, we all know that these Lab71 prototypes are the upcoming SuperSix Evo 4, OK’d in three completely different variations: normal carbon, hi-mod carbon, and SL superlight carbon like the present Leichtbau SuperSix Evo 3 restricted version body that debuted final summer time (and shares the identical UCI body designation: CANN-S6SL). The precise mannequin the EF Professional Biking groups are using is the Hello-Mod (CANN-S6HM) suggesting the others are calmly one lower-cost and one ultra-premium, ultralight carbon layup.

What do we all know? What’s new?

Aside from that, there are a selection of small tweaks to what in any other case seems to be fairly just like the third technology SuperSix Evo, simply taking aerodynamics a step additional. From the aspect, there are two putting variations. First, the fork is reshaped with deeper legs and an all-new crown, eliminating the transition into the downtube, with the downtube now raised up a bit greater, farther from the entrance tire.

And secondly, the part of the seattube above the seatstays has been made deeper, in an effort to permit for a deeper, extra aerodynamic seatpost.

Into the smaller particulars, these new prototype SuperSix frames now transfer away from PressFit to a BSA threaded backside bracket. They get a revised bolt-on detachable derailleur hanger that may keep on when the thru-axles is eliminated. And the frames get extra ports and mounting factors decrease inside the principle triangle, maybe so as to add the chance for SmartSense onboard digital integration like on the brand new Synapse.

Taking a look from the non-driveside, it does seem that the brand new seattube will get even thinner than earlier than at its base for extra comfort-inducing flex. And the downtube actually dips down decrease in entrance of and beneath the underside bracket. The dropout can also be barely revised, turning up the seatstay a bit for some further house across the flat mount rear disc brake caliper.

Oh yeah, and no extra Pace Launch… these bikes seem to change to extra normal 12mm thru-axles.

Past that, the Lab71 prototype SuperSix Evo 4 bikes of the EF Training-Tibco SVB & EF Training Easypost groups seems to be to hold over many core options like large tire clearance, absolutely built-in inner cable routing in entrance of the headset, dropped seatstays for aero & consolation advantages, and a hidden wedge-style seatpost clamp. Past all of that, we’ll have to attend till Cannondale make the brand new SuperSix Evo official.

We’re guessing it will likely be coming quickly this spring, now that they’ve allow us to get such an in depth sneak peek.

Cannondale.com