Save your kidney and sell your favorite child. Much easier.
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Which handlebars are you planning to use? You are very lucky to already have your Hi-mod frame. I’m waiting for a mid to late May delivery
Sorry to hear that. EXS cycling integrated aero handlebar. It’s already on the way. CCache in Oz did a build recently of an evo4, its on YouTube. They do a lot more imaginative things with parts and frame selection that I have seen many places and took inspiration from them for the new bar. So we shall see how it goes. Hope you get that frame soon!
Haven’t heard about that bar before but it looks really nice from a quick glimpse on their webpage. I will probably start with alloy bar and stem picked by my bikefitter and then likely switch to an one piece system when I feel more confident that the measurements are correct.
Tour Mag tested the new Supersix Evo (Hi-Mod 2 version with the Hollowgramm 50 R-SL as well as the seperate stem/bar rather than the 1 piece mono one…show below) in the most recent magazine. Came in at an impressive 207 watts.
For reference here where some of the other top bikes sit:
Cannondale Systemsix: 203
Canyon Aeroad (newest version): 204
Venge Vias: 204
Cervelo S5 (I think this was the previous version): 205
Scott Foil (newest version): 206
Factor One: 206
Giant Propel (newest version): 209
Venge (newest version): 208
Tarmac SL7: 210
Of note, if you are not familiar with their testing, they use to test bikes with both Zipp 404 as well as the stock wheels they came with. So for the Venge it tested 208 with the Rovals and then 206 with the 404’s. I believe now they just test it with what wheels come with it. If you want to read 100 pages of posts on bikes they have tested and what not, weight weenies has tons of info: *Tour Aero Bike Tests* - Page 98 - Weight Weenies)
Image of the Cannonade Supersix that was tested via a WW user:
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Ignore the messy apartment 
Just built this up yesterday, coming from an Aethos. Will post some final pictures once it’s done. Will be repainting the fork during the off season.
Bought for around 4000 euros complete with 105 Di2. Stripped and installed Ultegra Di2, and the Shimano C60 wheel set.
Went down from a 56 in Specialized to a 54 on the Cannondale. 1cm less reach and 1cm lower stack, so will be installing a 130mm stem once it’s in stock from Cannondale.
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What cockpit are you planning on running?
Yeah thats the biggest issue right now… Cannondale has nothing but 110mm stems at the moment, and they don’t have the spacers to run 3rd party stems available either.
So right now I am looking at running the PRO Aero Pursuit in 36cm, which has 101mm reach, which would solve my reach issue until I can get a longer stem 
Right now I am running ZIPP ERGO 80 38cm.
Would be nice to get something more aero 
Yeah, it’s almost required on the bike. Everyone I know with one is running the integrated cockpit from Cannondale so curious what other options people are considering
Otherwise looks good!
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How are EF using FSA bars in their bikes? Obviously they get stuff before us mere consumers, just wondering if they have custom spacers, etc.
The bike is “natively” compatible with the FSA integrated stuff, so the Vision bars etc I think the system is called FSA ACR.
The issue is that they have nothing smaller than 40cm for us mere mortals (at least that I can get in Europe).
All I can find is 40cm and 100mm…
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Gotcha….
Yeah, I run into that issue whenever I look into one-piece systems. I need long and narrow and that combo is rarely available.
Yeah! Spoke to the LBS and they said that its been a huge increase in interest in narrow handlebars, and the brands just haven’t had time to adjust to it… Maybe in a year or so
Did they at least go with a standard offset rear wheel finally?
At least thats an easy swap for a new TA, vs having to re-dish all your wheels to run them!
I switched to these bars from the Pro Aero Vibe recently. Technically a downgrade but I wanted 36cm bars on my road bike like my track bike.
On a nice carbon bike with nice wheels, I don’t mind the metal bars. They’re well made. Not light but also not bendy like other whimpy 36cm bars.
They’ll be right at home on your bike.
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I hear you on the zero offset seat post. I have the previous generation SuperSix in 58 and it was pretty unworkable without the zero offset. Is the post the same between generations? One way you could do it would be to find a small person who needs the offset and swap. the smaller geo frames have the zero. Which doesn’t make sense to me…
Nice. I’ll be curious to hear your impressions on the bike compared to your Aethos
I’m still tentatively planning to patiently wait until December when the full Ultegra 12s build shows up in stores. But we’ll see if I’m able to keep myself from buying something else between now and then. Would probably have to be used or an unexpected fire sale since the only other brand that seems to have decent priced ultegra/force level bikes is Canyon
I do wish companies would start spec-ing handlebars that were 20-40mm narrower than they currently do across most of the sizes. This is the biggest temptation to just building something myself as I hate to drop several thousand dollars to then have to spend a few hundred more to get a more appropriate width handlebar. I’ve just told myself after each of the last 3 builds I’ve done that I don’t want to build any more bikes up. Between hydraulic breaks and internal routing and having two little ones at home I just don’t have the time to watch the videos and take the time to build it up. I think one of the builds sat partially completed in my garage for over a month…which meant there was a month where I was looking at it and not riding it
Yeah, same. I just like alu handlebars for some reasons, same for stem. Cheap to buy and replace and such a boring cost.
Ill get back to this thread after this weekend
Yeah I have looked at the Aeroad as well, but they still haven’t updated the saddle post clamp to the new one that MVDP has been riding recently in disguise. Don’t wanna buy the one with the old problematic one
Hehe, I just build it up completely but without connecting the hoses. I let my LBS do that. They charge like 40USD for bleeding and doing the last bits on the bike.
It’s quite nice doing the rest Takes like 3-4 hours I you do it slowly. It’s the whole mess of the hydro that I hate.
I think they may have done. There’s been no announcement and no official new model, but if you look at the Aeroads on their site (in UK at least) they all now have seat post clamps on the top tube again, and there’s a little extra triangle of carbon between top tube and seat tube. Whereas the problematic seat post clamp was in the back of the seat tube right?