Feather overhauls the bike he won his first National Hill Climb championship on in 2018\u00a0 <\/p>
Four-time UK National Hill Climb champion Andrew Feather has revamped the Cannondale SuperSix Evo Hi-Mod he rode for his first victory in 2018. The finished build weighs a scant 5.075kg.\u00a0<\/p>
That\u2019s more than 600g lighter than the all-bells-and-whistles SuperSix Evo LAB71 disc-brake bike he piloted to victory in the Struggle in 2023<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p> So why is Feather going back to the bike that started it all?\u00a0<\/p> After using the 2018 SuperSix Evo for 20,000km of training, the frame was expectedly starting to show its age. <\/p> Feather contacted Rob Granville at Carbon Bike Repair in Leatherhead, Surrey and the pair concocted a plan to get the frameset even lighter by not only stripping the original paint but removing excess carbon fibre where it wasn\u2019t needed. <\/p> While the latter might initially seem a surefire recipe for disaster (and it is in the wrong hands), this was made possible by robotic technology that can analyse the wall thicknesses of carbon tubes.<\/p> Let\u2019s delve into the fascinating journey of the finished build.\u00a0<\/p>