Review Cannondale Evo SuperSix Redracing HD

http://gearmasher.wordpress.com https://www.facebook.com/gearmasher Hi, I’m Jared Muir from https://gearmasher.wordpress.com, racing for Infinite Cycles out of Riverton, Utah. Today I am going to be doing a review on the Cannondale Evo Supersix High Mod Red Racing Edition(http://www.cannondale.com). This is a 2013 model which I picked up new this year, and have raced the 2014 season on it. It’s been an excellent bike. Right out of the shop it came weighing in at about 13.3 pounds, so it’s a very light bike, built for climbing. The high-mod frame is an excellent frame. It’s very stiff, very responsive, especially when you’re cornering or when you’re climbing. I’ve noticed a big difference compared to other bikes that I’ve ridden. It corners very well and when you climb it’s very stiff with not a lot of flex in the carbon frame. There’s an excellent power transfer and you’re able to get a maximum amount of power out of every pedal stroke. The bike came equipped right out of the shop with a Vision TC24 tubular wheel (http://www.visiontechusa.com) set, which is a carbon tubular wheel set. For those of you that don’t know the difference between tubular and clincher wheel sets, which are the two different types of wheel sets out there, the clincher is your classic wheel set. You have the bead on the inside of the rim, put the tire on, put the tube in, you’re ready to go. On tubular wheel set, which I’m running on my Evo, the tires are completely sealed off. That allows you to not have need for a tube, lowering the weight of your wheel set. It also takes away the need for a bead on the inside of the rim, making the weight of the wheel set much lighter as well. These wheels are excellent for climbing. The biggest thing I noticed when I first used them was that they didn’t have any kind of flex or give them as I was going up the climbs like I noticed in previous wheel sets that I’ve used. With the Vision wheel sets, you can feel every pedal going straight into pushing you up that hill and getting you up as fast as possible. The only downside to racing with these wheels is that you would want something with a deeper dish, maybe a 46 mm dish for racing on the flat to be able to carry your momentum when you don’t have such big climbs. All around they’re an excellent wheel set and I’d definitely recommend them to anyone getting into cycling. Moving on, the Evo comes with the Sram red shifting and brakes. First of all, the Sram red(https://www.sram.com) has the double tap system for the shifting. That means to shift it you push it once and it shifts up, and you push it through twice and it shifts back down. This is different when compared to the classic, two different shifters, shift one to go up and shift one to go down. The double tap system has been great. It’s very clean shifting. I’ve never missed a shift, I’ve never skipped a gear. It’s been great. It comes with the 1:1 ratio, compared to the 1:2 ratio from other brands, which is good. You shift a certa