New Release: The Cannondale SuperX Gravel Whip – See the models, local availability & pricing
Just dropped globally and available locally from next week, the crew at Cannondale are super-pumped to share the details of their new gravel race machine, the SuperX. Here’s the official presser including local pricing and exact availability. Dig in!
Cannondale SuperX — Making the Fastest Faster
Today, Cannondale announces the rebirth of their legendary SuperX gravel race bike. The groundbreaking platform has been completely re-imagined and redesigned to dominate the world of gravel racing. Stripped down, dialed in, and engineered for victory, the SuperX is the ultimate tool for chasing podiums and smashing personal records, everywhere from Kansas, to the Worlds, to your local lunch-ride championships.
Last year, its forerunner, the SuperSix EVO SE, made history when Lachlan Morton set the fastest time ever at Unbound Gravel 2024. Now, the SuperX takes it to the next level. Blending insights from Cannondale’s WorldTour-proven road engineering team and decades of gravel expertise, the SuperX delivers a whole new level of speed and performance. This is a machine built to keep riders ahead in the fast-paced gravel race revolution. Drawing inspiration from the KOM-winning SuperSix EVO, SuperX pairs aerodynamics with an ultralight frame that’s rough-road ready.
SuperX’s sophisticated carbon construction smooths out the unpredictable demands of gravel roads. Specially constructed flex zones in the seat tube, rear triangle, and top tube work as a system with the bike’s D-shaped seatpost to absorb shock and vibration, improving control and reducing fatigue. Its race-proven geometry, OutFront steering design, and finely calibrated frame stiffness come together to deliver handling that is both confidently stable and pin-point precise.
And on the LAB71 SuperX, Cannondale engineers have been able to squeeze all this into a sub-900 gram frame (size 56) thanks to the use of even an even further advanced fiber and nano-resin composite with exceptional tenile and compressive strenght properties.
SuperX also features Cannondale’s Delta Steerer design. When paired with Cannondale’s Conceal Stem, or the sleek one-piece System R-One cockpit – equipped on the LAB71 SuperX – the Delta Steerer provides fully concealed cable routing, while reducing the headtube frontal area for improved aerodynamics, clean integration, and easy serviceability. Showing that it’s not just weight and speed that count – but also capability.
As courses, terrain, and weather vary, the SuperX accommodates tires up to 51mm in the front and 48mm in the rear with at least 4mm of clearance on each side, ready for whatever the day demands. And if cyclocross is your thing, throw on some 33c tires and go – SuperX loves to battle it out between the tape. With Cannondale’s rider-focused design philosophy, Proportional Response, every rider can experience the full potential of SuperX. Fully customized by size, with different tube profiles and precisely oriented layers of different types and moduli of carbon, each frame provides an ideal balance of weight, stiffness and durability, optimized for each of the six sizes (46 thru 61cm).
Models, local availability and pricing
SuperX Lab71
The super premium LAB71 SuperX model is available (as a frame-only) in Tungsten Blue from mid-February. Recommended retail will be R79 995.
SuperX 2
The SuperX 2 is also available from mid-February and will retail around R129 995. Complete builds (with sealant and slammed stems) are said to be 8.5kg. The build kit includes Shimano GRX Di2 electronic shifting, aero carbon wheels from Reserve in a 40 front and 44 rear combo, DT Swiss 370 hubs, 40c Vittoria Terreno tyres with Reserve Fillmore valves. There’s a carbon aero seatpost, Trimax alloy aero bars, integrated cabling and a whole lot of bling going on here including a lifetime warranty on the carbon frame and fork. Size curve runs as follows 46, 51, 54, 56, 58 and 61.
SuperX 3
The SuperX 3 is available in April and will retail around R79 995. Complete builds (with tubes) are 9.1kg. As with all models in the SuperX lineup, Cannondale backs the carbon frame and fork with a lifetime warranty. This is also a Shimano GRX equipped machine, with DT Swiss 370 hubs and a DT Swiss G1800 Spline wheelset. The frame and stem has internal cable routing and the size curve is comprehensive — from a 46 through to 61.
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