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Born in Bedford; meant for the peloton

By Cycling News

published 27 May 2006

Over the first weekend in May, Cannondale officially released its newest road bike, the System Six,...

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Cannondale System Six

Cannondale designers(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The head tube(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The USE Alien(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Cannondale’s oval(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The compact profile(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Like the use(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Cannondale outsources(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Despite investing heavily in aerospace-grade carbon processing facilities, Cannondale stayed true to its belief that the lighter-than-carbon aluminum CAAD read triangle is the best solution for its new high-end road bike(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Cannondale designers say that they approach the design of bikes as a complete system, not individual components. You'll only see this stem on the new System Six.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The head tube is tapered to fit a 1-1/8" standard headset bearing up top and a bearing cartridge closer to 1-1/2" at the bottom(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The USE Alien Cyclops Carbon got a redesign and is much simpler to adjust that the version that came with the high-end Cannondale Six13 Team replica(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Brilliant red hubs on the Mavic Ksyrium ES wheelset set off the look of the System Six nicely(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Cannondale's oval top tube is designed to maximize lateral rigidity while leaving vertical compliance loose and comfortable(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The compact profile of the Cannondale System Integrated Hollowgram Carbon crankset and matching bottom bracket. The crankset comes in a standard and pre-installed SRM edition(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Using a proprietary layup process, Cannondale's environmentally-controlled carbon room workers use unidirectional carbon fiber to create a continuous bond from the top tube through the seat and down tubes(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Like the use of the CAAD rear triangle, Cannondale sticks to its traditons in the downtube; oversized and round, Cannondale engineers claim testing shows that the System Six downtube is 44-percent stiffer than it's Six13 equivalent(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Cannondale outsources the production of its System Six fork but, like the entire design process for the new high-end road machine, it says it threw away previous ideas and designed it from the ground up(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

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