Cannondale Synapse Carbon 3 SmartSense

Real World Performance

Designed to go fast, built to go long, and made to keep you comfortable, the Synapse redefines road performance. With a lightweight frame featuring wind-tunnel-sculpted tubing and PB-blasting stiffness-to-weight, it’s a bike that’s ready for anything you demand of it. Just ask Lachlan Morton why he trusted it for his record-smashing lap of Australia. Unreal speed, engineered for real-world roads.​

Ride Confident

More visibility, more awareness, more integration, with our next-gen SmartSense system. All running from a single concealed battery. Intelligent lights adapt to let other road users know you’re there. While the rear-facing Garmin radar keeps you switched on to approaching traffic. Letting you ride the bike that’s up for anything, whatever time of day or night.

Compliant Comfort

With advancements in our carbon layup, our engineers have made the new Synapse 20% more compliant than its already butter-smooth predecessor, ensuring you feel 100% more comfortable even on the roughest roads.

Like A Glove

A great fit and feel makes for a great ride. And with our Proportional Response Construction, every rider gets that as standard. From the carbon layup through to the geometry, everything on Synapse has been tuned and tested by frame size. So that your bike works in harmony with you to give the best possible ride for you and your height.

Bring it all, bring it on

Our all-new StashPort storage system in the downtube is there when you need it and hidden when you don’t. Paired with its StashBag buddy, you can bring along your ride essentials and know that they’ll be secure, whatever you get up to out there. Meanwhile, best-in-class tire clearance lets you take the idea of riding for longer to a whole new level.

Smarter SmartSense

Gen 2 of our intelligent lights and radar system is smaller, brighter, longer lasting, and better integrated than ever. One battery - now hidden neatly in the downtube - powers the lights, rear-facing radar, and the SRAM AXS shifting.

Big Ride Rubber

Best-in-class clearance for tires with a maximum measured width of up to 48mm in the front ad 42mm in the rear - with at least 4mm of extra clearance on each side - makes Synapse a true, ride-longer, ride-whatever kind of road bike.

StashPort + StashBag

StashPort is our take on a downtube storage system, accessed beneath the water bottle cage. While every Synapse includes StashBag, a specifically designed bag for tools and other ride essentials. It also houses the SmartSense battery, which provides glovebox-style lighting when StashPort cover is opened.

D-Lightful

The D-shaped design of Synapse's seatpost enhances aerodynamics and boosts vertical compliance. Reducing muscle fatigue so that you stay fresher on those longer day.

Fly Delta

The unique-to-Cannondale v-shape Delta Steerer keeps you cockpit tidy and cables routed internally. While the reduced headtube frontal area brings aero gains to the party. As well as sleeker good looks.

• Frame: Synapse Carbon, Proportional Response construction, integrated cable routing, downtube Stashport, 12x142 thru-axle, UDH, BSA 68mm threaded BB, flat mount disc, integrated seat binder, SmartSense Gen 2.0 equipped, fender mounts
• Fork: Synapse Carbon, integrated crown race, 12x100mm thru-axle, flat mount disc, internal routing, 1-1/8" to 1-1/5" Delta steerer, 55mm offset, fender mounts
• Headset: Integrated, 1-1/8" - 1-1/2"
• Rear Derailleur: SRAM Rival AXS
• Front Derailleur: SRAM Rival AXS, braze-on
• Shifters: SRAM Rival AXS
• Chain: SRAM Rival
• Crank: SRAM Rival, 46/33: 165mm (44cm), 170mm (48-51cm), 172.5 (54-56cm), 175mm (58-61)
• Cassette: SRAM Rival, 10-36, 12-speed
• Bottom Bracket: SRAM DUB BSA
• Brakes: SRAM Rival AXS hydraulic disc, 160/160mm PaceLine centerlock rotors
• Brake Levers: SRAM Rival AXS hydraulic disc
• Rims: DT Swiss E1800 Spline, 24h, tubeless ready
• Spokes: DT new aero® II Straightpull
• Tire Size: 32
• Wheel Size: 700c
• Hubs: (F) DT Swiss 370, 12x100mm centerlock / (R) DT Swiss 370 LN Ratchet System, 12x142mm centerlock
• Tires: Vittoria Rubino Pro IV, 700x32c
• Handlebar: Vision Trimax Aero Alloy: 400mm (44-51cm), 420mm (54-61cm)
• Stem: Cannondale C1 Conceal, Alloy, 31.8, -6°: 80mm (44-48m), 90mm (51cm), 100mm (54-56cm), 110mm (58-61cm)
• Handlebar Tape: Cannondale Bar Tape, 3.5mm
• Saddle: Fizik Vento Argo X5, 140mm
• Seatpost: Cannondale C1 Aero 27 Carbon, SmartSense compatible, 330mm length, 0mm offset (44-48cm), 15mm offset (51-61cm)
• Extra: SmartSense Gen 2.0 system (Bluetooth BLE and ANT+ compatible: SmartSense LightSkin U1E ultra-compact 800 lumen variable output headlight, SmartSense Garmin Varia eRTL 615 rear-facing radar/taillight, SmartSense 43.2Wh removable internal battery w/integrated flashlight, SmartSense SRAM AXS charging cable), large StashBag downtube storage bag, tubeless valves, Conceal Stem accessory/computer mount (Garmin/Wahoo)

*Please note that, based on component availability and other factors, specifications are subject to change without notice.