Cannondale has reimagined its gravel race machine, the SuperX, making it lighter, faster, and more capable than ever. Featuring an ultralight, aerodynamic frame design with engineered flex zones, this bike is built to handle everything from tough racecourses to fast group rides. Get all the details in the full press release below:
Press Release
Today, Cannondale announces the rebirth of their legendary SuperX gravel race bike. The groundbreaking platform has been completely reimagined and redesigned to dominate the world of gravel racing. Stripped down, dialled 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 fibre and nano-resin composite with exceptional tensile and compressive strength 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 tyres 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 tyres 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 customised 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, optimised for each of the six sizes (46 thru 61cm). The new SuperX lineup comes in three spec levels as standard, plus a limited run of LAB71 complete bikes and framesets.
South African Availability and Pricing
The LAB71 SuperX frameset will be available locally in Tungsten Blue one week after the launch, with a recommended retail price of R79,995. The SuperX 2 will also be available a week after launch at R129,995, while the SuperX 3 is expected to arrive around April, priced at R79,995.
Weight:
- The LAB71 SuperX weighs 7.4 kg in size 56, without cages or bottles, and includes sealant and a slammed stem.
- The SuperX Carbon 2 comes in at 8.5 kg in size 56, without cages, with sealant, and a 20 mm spacer.
- The SuperX Carbon 3 weighs 9.10 kg in size 54, without cages, with tubes, and a 20 mm spacer.
Learn More
For more information, please visit www.cannondale.com.
