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By Cycling News

Published 27 May 2006

Over the first weekend in May, Cannondale officially released its newest road bike, the System Six,...

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Cannondale designers (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The head tube (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The USE Alien (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Cannondale’s oval (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The compact profile (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Like the use (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Cannondale outsources (Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

Despite investing heavily in aerospace-grade carbon processing facilities, Cannondale stayed true to its belief that the lighter-than-carbon aluminum CAAD read triangle is the best solution for its new high-end road bike (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Cannondale designers say that they approach the design of bikes as a complete system, not individual components. You'll only see this stem on the new System Six. (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The head tube is tapered to fit a 1-1/8" standard headset bearing up top and a bearing cartridge closer to 1-1/2" at the bottom (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The USE Alien Cyclops Carbon got a redesign and is much simpler to adjust that the version that came with the high-end Cannondale Six13 Team replica (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Brilliant red hubs on the Mavic Ksyrium ES wheelset set off the look of the System Six nicely (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Cannondale's oval top tube is designed to maximize lateral rigidity while leaving vertical compliance loose and comfortable (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The compact profile of the Cannondale System Integrated Hollowgram Carbon crankset and matching bottom bracket. The crankset comes in a standard and pre-installed SRM edition (Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)