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Synapse Carbon 2 SmartSense

by Cannondale

Regular price£7,250.00 Sale price

Synapse Carbon 2 SmartSense

by Cannondale

Regular price£7,250.00 Sale price
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Road Reimagined

Go long, go short, go fast. This is WorldTour performance for real world rides.

Model Description

Double-tap into next-gen smoothness. With its compliant carbon frame, SRAM Force AXS 2x at your fingertips and Reserve’s aerodynamic 42|49 wheels beneath you, this baby makes tempo feel like tempo again. The Gen 2 SmartSense system brings enhanced visibility and awareness to its world-class versatility. Equal parts flash and foundation— Synapse Carbon 2 SmartSense is perfect for Gran Fondos, fast group rides, or going missing all day on purpose.

What it's for

Comfortable high-performance road riding, long distance missions, fast group rides

Highlights

  • Lightweight, smoothly compliant, sleekly aero Synapse carbon frameset with StashPort downtube storage
  • SmartSense Gen 2 - Enhanced visibility and awareness from the sleekly integrated system of lights and radar
  • Slick wireless electronic shifting from SRAM's high-performance Force AXS group
  • Reserve 42|49 Turbulent Aero carbon wheels with DT Swiss 370 Hubs - Sleek aero performance for all-day rides
  • Fizik Vento Argo R5 saddle - ergonomic comfort with pressure relieving cutout

 

Road Reimagined


Real World Performance

Designed to go fast, built to go long, and made to keep you comfortable, the LAB71 Synapse takes all-around road performance to the next level. With a sub-1000-gram Hi-MOD frame, featuring wind tunnel-sculpted aero tubing, exceptional stiffness-to-weight, and a silky ride, it’s a bike that’s ready for anything you demand of it. Proven by Lachlan Morton on his record-smashing lap of Australia, Unreal speed, engineered for real-world roads.


Ride Confident

More visibility, more awareness, more integration, with our next-gen SmartSense system. All running from a single concealed battery. Intelligent lights adapt to let other road users know you’re there. While the rear-facing Garmin radar keeps you switched on to approaching traffic. Letting you ride the bike that’s up for anything, whatever time of day or night.

Compliant Comfort

With advancements in our carbon layup, our engineers have made the new Synapse 20% more compliant than its already butter-smooth predecessor, ensuring you feel 100% more comfortable even on the roughest roads.

Like A Glove

A great fit and feel makes for a great ride. And with our Proportional Response Construction, every rider gets that as standard. From the carbon layup through to the geometry, everything on Synapse has been tuned and tested by frame size. So that your bike works in harmony with you to give the best possible ride for you and your height.

Bring it all, bring it on

Our all-new StashPort storage system in the downtube is there when you need it and hidden when you don’t. Paired with its StashBag buddy, you can bring along your ride essentials and know that they’ll be secure, whatever you get up to out there. Meanwhile, best-in-class tire clearance lets you take the idea of riding for longer to a whole new level.

 

Big Ride Rubber

Best-in-class clearance for tires with a maximum measured width of up to 48mm in the front and 42mm in the rear - with at least 4mm of extra clearance on each side - makes Synapse a true, ride-longer, ride-whatever kind of road bike.

More, from less.

The LAB71 and Synapse 1 get a refined, performance-boosting, Hi-MOD carbon layup that shaves over 100 grams off the frame weight, while maintaining Synapse's stiffness, ride-feel, durability, and lifetime warranty.

Proportional Response

Tuned for the rider, our size-specific construction creates optimal stiffness and compliance for each and every frame size in the Synapse range.

StashPort + StashBag

StashPort is our downtube storage system, accessed beneath the water bottle cage. StashPort holds tools, snacks, and other ride essentials in the specially designed StashBag, and on SmartSense-equipped bikes, houses the system battery (which also provides a cool, glovebox-style light when StashPort cover is opened).

 

D-Lightful

The D-shaped design of Synapse’s seatpost enhances aerodynamics and boosts vertical compliance, reducing muscle fatigue so that you stay fresher on those longer days.

Fly Delta

The unique-to-Cannondale, V-shaped Delta Steerer keeps your cockpit tidy and cables routed internally, while reducing headtube frontal area for drag-reducing aero gains.

Specs

Details

  • Platform
  • Model Name
    Synapse Carbon 2 SmartSense
  • Model Code
    C12055U

Frameset

  • Frame
    Synapse Carbon, Proportional Response construction, integrated cable routing, downtube Stashport, 12x142 thru-axle, UDH, BSA 68mm threaded BB, flat mount disc, integrated seat binder, SmartSense Gen 2.0 equipped, fender mounts
  • Fork
    Synapse Carbon, integrated crown race, 12x100mm thru-axle, flat mount disc, internal routing, 1-1/8" to 1-1/5" Delta steerer, 55mm offset, fender mounts
  • Headset
    Integrated, 1-1/8" - 1-1/2"

Drivetrain

  • Rear Derailleur
    SRAM Force AXS
  • Front Derailleur
    SRAM Force AXS, braze-on
  • Shifters
    SRAM Force AXS
  • Chain
    SRAM Force
  • Crank
    SRAM Force, 46/33
  • Rear Cogs
    SRAM Force XG-1270, 10-36, 12-speed
  • Bottom Bracket
    SRAM DUB BSA

Brakes

  • Brakes
    SRAM Force AXS hydraulic disc, 160/160mm Centerline XR centerlock rotors
  • Brake Levers
    SRAM Force AXS hydraulic disc

Wheels

  • Rims
    Reserve 42 | 49 Turbulent Aero, 24h, tubeless ready
  • Spokes
    Sapim CX-Delta J-bend
  • Tire Size
    32
  • Wheel Size
    700c
  • Hubs
    (F) DT Swiss 370, 12x100mm centerlock / (R) DT Swiss 370, 12x142mm centerlock
  • Tires
    Vittoria Rubino Pro IV, 700x32c

Components

  • Handlebar
    Vision Trimax Aero Alloy
  • Stem
    Cannondale C1 Conceal, Alloy, 31.8, -6°
  • Grips
    Cannondale Bar Tape, 3.5mm
  • Saddle
    Fizik Vento Argo R5, 140mm
  • Seatpost
    Cannondale C1 Aero 27 Carbon, SmartSense compatible, 330mm length, 0mm offset (44-48cm), 15mm offset (51-61cm)

Connectivity

  • Wheel Sensor
    Cannondale Wheel Sensor

Extra

  • Extra 1
    SmartSense Gen 2.0 system (Bluetooth BLE and ANT+ compatible: SmartSense LightSkin U1E ultra-compact 800 lumen variable output headlight, SmartSense Garmin Varia eRTL 615 rear-facing radar/taillight, SmartSense 43.2Wh removable internal battery w/integrated flashlight, SmartSense SRAM AXS charging cable), large StashBag downtube storage bag, Fillmore tubeless valves

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