Cannondale SuperSix EVO 2012: Best Bike in The World with only 695g frame

Tour Magazine Test Winner March, 2012

In the past 10 years over 2,000 bikes have been tested, of which 6 of the best bikes qualified for the final.
The Cannondale Supersix Evo Ultimate was voted "Best Bike of the World".

Euro Bike
 695 grams and 142.3 nm/deg/kg.*
Being the lightest in the world, with the best stiffness-to-weight is impressive. but the true beauty of evo is its balance of light with strong and stiff with smooth that is efficiency evolved.

Light, Stiff and Strong
Our leading edge carbon construction utilizes our BallisTec Carbon Technology to create the lightest production road frame ever made, with the best stiffness-toweight ever measured, with the strength to outperform even most aluminum frames..

SPEED SAVE Vertical Compliance
Similar to the suspension on an F1 car, the SPEED SAVE vertical compliance features are engineered to help the bike roll faster. Subtle fl ex zones in the rear stays, fork and seat tube improve rolling speed, acceleration, cornering speed and control without negatively affecting power transfer.
     
Drag Reduction
The EVO achieves its incredible stiffness and strength with smaller diameter tubes than the competition. This dramatically reduces the EVO’s frontal area and reduces drag without the added weight and compromises of aero shaped tubes.


Light but strong?
We’d be concerned that a bike that gets down to a weight this low is going to be fragile, but Cannondale claim that the EVO’s complex layup and mixture of fibres actually makes this one of the strongest frames they have ever made. Even to the point of providing data from destructive tests showing the Evo to be stronger than their own super tough aluminium CAAD9 road frame.

The SuperSix Evo will be debuting under the seats of team Liquigas at the Giro d'Italia starting Saturday and the bike will be in the shops this June. Details of the ranges pricing are a little thin on the ground but we do know the line-up.
Heading the list is the SuperSix Evo Ultimate. This gets the 695g ultimate frame (the weight is kept down by the use of lightweight paint) shod with DT Swiss RRC carbon tubular wheels, Zero G brakes and SRAM Red. We put this one on the scales and it tipped them at a frankly astonishing 4.9kg. 

(bikeradar.com, cannondale.com)