GuyKilfoil

Mine was super noisy too (like a big crack every time I hit a bump) but I got my LBS to follow the Cannondale work instruction for the seatpost to the letter and it's been perfect ever since. You can download it here: https://www.cannondale.com/-/media/files/manual-uploads/manuals/019_137369_oms%20my20%20supersix_en.pdf Check out pages 15-17...

I bought my Cannondale SuperSix Evo in February and it was R48,999 at the time, Carbon wheels, mechanical Ultegra, disc brakes and a brilliant frame plus a warranty. It's a great bike!

That's a pretty impressive weight. My Disc Ultegra quite a bit heavier in size 58cm (around 1.1kg more)... But no mods so far. Going to change bar, seat post, crank set, disc rotors and put on that Soigneur internal cable routing kit over time. Bog standard for the moment but it's an impressive machine. I love it!!

What have you got the weight down to so far? I'm assuming you're planning on ditching that heavy standard bar and stem and opt for the carbon seat post at some stage?

Check this out Savage: https://www.soigneur.co.uk/online-store/cannondalemgik

Post of this topic!! Couldn’t agree more. I have three kids (7yr old twin boys and a 3yr old daughter) and I wouldn’t trade all the bikes in the world for the worst moments with them.

Haven't seen the llama's in a while. We went up there two Sundays ago and they were MiA.

No, it definitely doesn't lie. And I'm definitely much stronger right now for sure but I've done only one coffee ride and one Northcliff climb on my roadbike since recovering from COVID in June. So almost all of mileage on the roadie was done inside the below red block (I only got the bike in February). Everything before this block was on the Tarmac, so it's a close to apples with apples bike comparison (there's only a 12W FTP difference, nullified by the extra weight on the bike, because I weigh the same):

Me too @Pure Savage!! This is what I was talking about in my post earlier. My old superbike and new supersteed attached:

This is an interesting topic and I will give my relatively inexperienced two cents based on my most recent bike purchase. It's a road example but it bears reference. My business sponsored a local cycling retailer for about 18 months (middle of 2018 to Feb 2020) and part of the deal was a loan bike (a very well known American top-end brand) for yours truly. It was a beaut and had a retail value of R146,000 at the time. Highest grade of carbon everything, SRAM Red ETap, and a weight of 7.2kg for a size 58cm with cages, pedals and Garmin mount. It was a superbike (admittedly one generation old - the newer model had already been launched) in every sense of the word. I did about 5,800km on the bike in 18 months (over and above my MTB and KICKR mileage). When the contract ended I wanted to buy it but the price was way out of kilter with market value (and beyond what I could afford) and instead I bought a lower mid-range (but latest model) carbon race bike from a rival American manufacturer. The bike had a retail value of R50k and runs a mix of mechanical Ultegra (groupo, calipers) and 105 (Cassette and disc rotors), has own-brand carbon wheels, and weighs nearly 1.2kg more in the same trim and the same size. I've done 933km on the bike so far according to Strava...and there's not a local segment PR that belongs to the old bike. I promise I'm not a lot fitter either (about 8% fitter in the last year if Strava's metric is correct). Perhaps the new bike suits my riding style better. Perhaps I'm still in that new bike honeymoon period where it feels like you have an extra 20W every time you take the bike out. Based on this experience, I definitely can't justify the price of the top end bikes based on performance. But that doesn't mean I don't still want one. I just can't justify it at my current bank account levels.

I had a second hand Camber that I bought off the Hub and I HATED it. It felt slow, clunky, it didn't like tight or quick turns, it bobbed when I put the power down, it climbed like a dump truck and I ended up not enjoying MTB very much at all. I analysed the sorts of trails I rode most and settled on a XC hard tail (Titan Racing Drone Elite) as my new MTB and I LOVE it. It's well specced (RockShox SID, Shimano XT 1x12, SRAM Level T brakes), light (under 12kg for an XL alloy) and it looks fantastic. Net result, I've done as much mileage on my new hard tail in 6 weeks as I did on my Camber in 6 months. Do I still want a dual susser? Sure (but that Scalpel is just out of reach financially right now). But when the time comes the hard tail is staying. And it's improving my skills too. A decision I do not regret at all!

My two cents worth (having struggled with maintenance costs on older dual sussers bought from the Hub) is to buy a new bike if you can. Tough at the budget I know but your LBS will get you very close to your budget on this: https://www.giant-bicycles.com/za/stance-29-2 I think I was quoted around the R27k mark recently. It's a bit more trail oriented but we could all use more travel to be honest!

Large is a 56cm. I'm 189cm and on a 58cm (XL).