One look tells you. Cannondale bicycles are a breed apart. Their distinctive appearance implies power and represents an evolution in bicycle design and construction. For years conventional bicycles have been made of small diameter steel tubes that are brazed and joined with lugs. Cannondale bicycles are built with large diameter 6061-6 aluminum tub-ing, professionally welded and heat treated.

Riding Cannondale aluminum gives you advantages no steel bicycle can match. Your energy is more efficiently transferred to the rear wheel. The frame is stronger. The frame is lighter. You experience a more comfortable ride. And you have Cannondale's tradition of service riding behind you with the best guarantee in the industry.

The more your frame flexes as you pedal, the more your energy is wasted. Imagine putting springs on your pedals. Before you can start the pedal turning you must compress the spring, which takes additional effort and adds up to a lot of wasted energy. Frame flex, like the springs, wastes your cycling energy. We utilize the greater stiffness inherent in a large diameter tube to create a remarkably rigid bicycle frame that virtually eliminates frame flex. The increased efficiency of the Can-nondale design allows you to travel farther, faster with less effort.

In addition to enlarging the tube diameter we have increased the thickness of the tubing wall to create a stronger bicycle frame. Not even a frame made of Reynolds 531. generally regarded as the finest steel bicycle tubing, matches a Cannondale for strength...and because Cannondale frames are aluminum, they actually weigh about a half pound less. Increased strength and efficiency, with decreased weight. That's the Cannondale aluminum advantage.