Team EF Education-Oatly has debuted a new Cannondale Supersix Evo race bike on stage 1 of the Women’s Tour Down Under.
We’re on the ground at the Australian WorldTour curtain-raiser, and first spotted the new bike on top of team cars heading to the start of stage 1, and a little later when the EF Education-EasyPost men’s riders rolled out for a pre-race training ride.
The teams have remained tight-lipped over the new bike, but here’s what we can tell about it so far now we’ve gotten a glimpse with our own eyes.
What we can see
The new bike doesn’t rip up the previous Supersix rulebook – it looks incredibly similar at a glance – but it appears to have an updated tubeset, with a deeper, more concave headtube and reprofiled fork crown.
It would be unsurprising if the new Supersix turned out to be more aerodynamically efficient, of course, but the rear triangle also looks remodelled, sporting more curvature and a new downward kink towards the rear dropout.
The seat tube also looks to be inspired by the latest Synapse endurance bike, with a thinner, flattened profile. This might hint towards a drive to improve compliance alongside better aerodynamics.
On the driveside, it’s possible to make out a universal derailleur hanger (UDH) dropout, which isn’t a shocking development given most new bikes include the standard. Incidentally, but perhaps linked, both teams have switched to SRAM (from Shimano) for the 2026 race season.
Riders are also using a new integrated handlebar. In previous years, the team has used Vision cockpits (along with the brand’s wheels, which remain), but the new cockpit is also visually distinct from the previous bike’s MOMO-developed SystemBar R-One handlebar which ships with current top-spec SuperSix Evos.
Also notable is a tweaked seatpost design. Before, the seatpost tapered towards the head, but now it remains a uniform depth along its length.
If Cannondale follows previous form, it will likely produce three variants of the SuperSix Evo – the Lab71 featuring its highest-grade carbon, and Hi-Mod and standard Carbon variants. Both EF Education-Oatly and EF Education-EasyPost riders are riding bikes branded ‘Lab71’.
