[WrigleyRoadie]

I'm an Orbea guy, but I snapped these shots at the Mankato Crit over the weekend. Nice Rtichey carbon stem on one of them....

 

[zosocane]

Sweet pics! Huge downtube!!

 

[split]

Downtube? Look at that HEADTUBE!!!!?

 

[ashpelham]

So what is the supposed advantage of the big headtube? Besides a good punchline to a joke?

 

[zosocane]

The beefiness of the headtube is aimed at reducing weight. "The System Six's carbon head tube really enables us to save quite a bit of weight on the overall frame," said Chris Peck, Cannondale's vice president of engineering and R&D. "We're able to eliminate all of the bond joints [at the head tube], all of the overal that we had with the Six13. We're able to thin the material out quite a bit because we are using a large diameter head tube, and that's really where we are getting a lot of the weigh savings."