That’s this piece here in the frame of the bike that the battery will snap into: And the first portion of the club is the so-called ‘Cradle’. So a bike has to have either RLE or L to be part of this club. In this case, the electronic shifting element, while called out in the naming, really isn’t part of the SmartSense platform. This review isn’t about the bike itself, but here’s the full spec page if you want it. On the bright side, given how bad the Shimano R9200 power meter is accuracy-wise, that’s probably not a loss.
In this case, the bike I tested is the Cannondale Synapse 1 RLE, with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9250, though oddly not a power meter at that $9,050 price point. Synapse Carbon 4: Ain’t got nothing fancy Synapse Carbon 2 RLE: Has Radar, Lights, and Electronic shifting So as we see in the above screenshot from their site, the: These three models have three different levels of stuff:Įach bike you’ll see has an assigned suffix made up of three letters:
Here, look at this (small portion) of the Synapse lineup. The idea though is that you can glance at a bike name and see which parts it has. What’s interesting though is that not all pieces are available on all bikes. Specifically, the Synapse (road) and Topstone (gravel) lineups today. To begin with the obvious, this requires a Cannondale bike. With that – let’s get into it! The Hardware: Also, this is/was a loaner bike that they’ll be picking back up shortly. It’s all the other fancy stuff on the bike that makes it expensive, not the SmartSense components. In my case, I was testing it inside the frame of the $9,500 Synapse 1 RLE, but functionally all these components work just the same in the far cheaper bike models. Instead, this is all about the electronics platform of SmartSense and how all these components work. Now as usual for this site, I’m not really going to focus on things like lateral stiffness or other bike-specific review things. As with most fancy gadgets, this isn’t available on every model, though it’s also not just the most expensive $10K bikes either. It’s super clever.Ĭannondale first rolled this out on the Synapse road bike series about a year ago, and has since expanded it to their Topstone gravel bikes. Beyond that the lights just turn on the moment you start moving, and at the end of the ride your rides automatically save and upload to the app and various platforms like Strava. The idea with the SmartSense platform is that a bike can be equipped with cycling rearview radar, lights (front and back), speed sensors, and even a power mount for your bike GPS/computer, all run from a single detachable USB-C battery – and all configurable via a single app. After nearly a year of usage, I’ve got a pretty good handle on the Cannondale SmartSense system.
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