Spotted: Is a New Cannondale SuperSix Evo in the Works?

Its SuperX not SuperSix

SI is gone for the new ones.

Not sure how you can spin a threaded alu BB insert bonded into a carbon cross frame as a good thing, or easy to maintain. Mud, sand, grit and water ingress are a given, and the choice of a bonded threaded insert will make serviceability and potentially frame life much shorter.

I love the the AI wheel dish on my F-SI! No rear wheel has more evenly angled and tensioned spokes on both sides of the wheel (even more so if you use a 3mm asymmetrical rim for your wheel build), you can get the wheel almost as perfectly symmetrical as your front wheel AND still have room for your massive 12 speed cassette. I only have one set of wheels made anyway: 1 – because it’s all I can afford, and 2 – because I have NEVER had a wheel break, just flats that I can just throw a tube in on the trail. Also AI allows me to run 2.4 inch wheels and a double crank ring up front if were to so choose. Even for teams racing AI version Cannondale’s they are gonna have loads of AI wheels ready for pit swaps or whatever. Like the Lefty it’s not an issue, never was. It’s Cannondale they are not necessarily ahead of the curve, more like the knight on the chessboard of bike tech. They move unpredictably, come up with ideas you don’t see coming like (Alex Pong’s engineered Magic crank-to-spindle six-curved-splines interface) the “keystone” of the BB30. Now almost every other bike manufacturer has adopted BB30 for professional riding (Nino ditched Scott’s use of GXP for the bombproof higher performing BB30 for his World Cup and Olympic racing), even SRAM Dub spindles are the exact same tech as BB30, they just took off 1mm of the diameter to 29mm so they didn’t have to pay royalties or to pretend it’s not BB30. If you buy Cannondale, you get their proprietary quirks and what I see as the benefits, or you buy a Scott or Specialized that follow the pack.
The pressfit hate is a crock too, I have never had a problem with Cannondale’s PF bottom brackets, (granted I don’t let bike shops put my cranks together as I find they often cut corners to save time) but I always follow the manual and grease the bearings properly and make sure the bearings are set perfectly linear, i also freeze up the spindle so it shrinks a bit and I can slide it to wear it needs to be without disrupting the bearings. then as it warms up it locks in to the bearing inner races. Never had one creak from pressfit. I think people don’t like pressfit because they aren’t as simple and convenient as just screwing your oversized BB30 bearing in; BSA are great for bad home mechanics or rushed bike shop/bad mechanics.
Alas tho, Cannondale does sometimes cave into the crowd. They are ditching AI because of the whiners, For instance the newish Scalpel HT is non AI (along with all the 2024 bikes, also is the Scalpel HT replacing the AI F-SI for xc racing?) which is a cleaned up carbon version of Cannondales Trail: dropped seatstays like everybody is doing (of course Scott’s design team rushed to drop the new Scale’s seatstays after the Scalpel HT was revealed). Next thing Cannondale will add BSA. While the Ocho is an excellent performing fork and looks absolutely stunning my booted Lefty Carbon Speed 110 out perform it and EVERY other shock in XC/All-Mountain riding, and it only weighs 1,169 grams. Even my aluminum Lefty PBR 120MM travel double Crown Booted Lefty only weighs a hair over 1400 grams – less than the single crown carbon Ocho with 100MM travel- granted the Ocho is an extreme improvement on the 2013-2019 Hybrid Lefty’s; those boat anchors sucked abominably in every way imaginably.