Lachlan Morton chooses a unique Cannondale road bike to travel across Australia

Surround Australia on your bike on a route of about 14,200 kilometers. It is the latest challenge that Lachlan Morton has immersed himself in for a week. A new madness from the Australian cyclist in which the attention has been drawn to the bike he is using. A Cannondale that does not correspond to any of the bikes currently present in the catalog and that seems to be a hybrid between the competition SuperSix and the Synapse granfondo.

Cannondale could be preparing an evolution of its Synapse

As he has us accustomed every so often, Lachlan Morton is already facing a new cycling adventure. This time he has chosen his homeland, Australia, to make a journey around that gigantic island, which involves covering approximately about 14,200 kilometers of which he has already covered more than 3,000 in the 7 days he has been pedaling. A challenge that has a solidarity aspect, seeking to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation NGO that helps Aboriginal children in remote areas of Australia to have access to books, especially those written in their native language.

However, it is not about Lachlan Morton's challenge that we intended to talk about but about how the attention of all material lovers has been drawn to the bike he is using for this challenge. At first glance, it might seem like a Cannondale SuperSix Lab71 like the one usually used by EF Education-EasyPost, the competition model of the American brand.

In fact, the front triangle has similar aerodynamic shapes to the competition model, perhaps a deeper steering tube at first glance. However, the differences begin when we reach the seat tube, much less streamlined and which accommodates a D-shaped seatpost.

From there, the curves of the seat stays and chainstays resemble those of the Synapse, the brand's granfondo model, although Morton's bike chainstays seem to curve more as they reach the rear dropouts while the chainstays visibly flatten. A rear triangle that, along with the more stylized seatpost and seat tube, seems clearly oriented towards comfort.

It is very possible that it is a specific prototype that the brand has prepared for Lachlan Morton, or that they are taking advantage of this challenge for what could be a new model of Synapse with a more sporty approach compared to the one currently in the catalog which, like the granfondo models of other brands, has evolved towards what is now known as allroad, being able to accommodate tires up to 35 mm or integrating the Smart Sense system of lights and Garmin Varia rear radar on the bike, something that Morton's bike apparently lacks.

In any case, it is precisely the ability to carry out these experiments and prototypes the philosophy with which Cannondale created its Lab71 almost two years ago, the department designed to produce the most exquisite bikes of the brand in addition to innovating in different developments and being able to create new products without limitations.