Uncovering the Surprising Truth About Bikes in 2012

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:08 The Bike
02:02 Canondale Design
03:00 Is This Faster Pros
04:18 The Flaws
05:00 The Truth
5:55 Upgrades

It's been a weird couple of weeks for me on the bike. Borrowing a total of 3 bikes and doing the hardest bike race I have ever done on one of them.

In fact it was the 255km climb to Kaiser that got me thinking about the 2012 Cannondale I was using. Are we being sold the wrong kind of top end bike, at least for the majority of us.

I would love to hear you thoughts, especially if you have recently experienced both bikes ie. a New road disc bike and a an older top end rim brake bike.

Finally, below is the marketing literature from when the Cannondale was launched, I thought it made for interesting reading

Design aims

The aims of the design have been: lightweight, stiffness, smooth riding, and finally a reduction in drag. The drag reduction has been achieved not by using aero profiles like the current aero specials just launched from Specialized and Scott, but rather in reducing tube diameters and frontal area. The headtube has gone from the massively oversized 1.5" bottom race down to a slimmer 1 1/4" item. The downtube has been slimmed by 20% and the fork by 11%.

Cannondale have taken inspiration from the world of Formula 1 with its Speed Save concept. F1 car suspension isn't to aid driver comfort but rather to aid traction and handling. Speed Save is Cannondale's take on this for bikes.

The fork and rear stays work to create movement to take the sting out of the road. The rear chain and seat stays have flattened centre sections, and this change in shape along with the carbon layup offers a small amount of movement vertically. This allows the bike to ride smoothly over rougher surfaces and it's claimed this gives a smoother power transfer to the rear wheel making for a more efficient ride.

Up front the forks dropout is offset by setting the axle back from the fork end. This means a shallower continuous curve can be made. Offsetting keeps the steering and handling sharp whilst giving more movement fore and aft in the fork blades, all aiding its bump smoothing abilities.
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