The New King of Aluminium Bikes? | Cannondale CAAD 13

Cannondale have revamped their legendary aluminium platform with the CAAD 13, could this be the new king of aluminium road bikes? This latest bike makes it Cannondale's third major road launch this year alone - coming quickly after the all-new SuperSix EVO and the radical Topstone gravel machine.
This latest bike makes it Cannondale's third major road launch this year alone - coming quickly after the all-new SuperSix EVO mentioned above and the radical Topstone gravel machine.
David Devine, Cannondale’s global road product director explains: “With the CAAD13, we focused on elements that really improve the ride, namely drag reduction, comfort and wide-ranging capability, while not increasing the weight.”
Cannondale says it has achieved improvements in comfort and overall ride quality over the CAAD12 (a previous BikeRadar Bike of the Year winner and a bike that has always impressed us in whatever spec was tested) by a combination of dropped seatstays and the KNØT seatpost - taken from the EVO.
It claims that this combination doubles the compliance of this frame over the CAAD12, and that the myth that carbon fibre has a comfort advantage over aluminium is now over.
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