Cannondale SuperSix Evo kids bike

After buying a Cannondale, hurting my back, selling it, buying another one, blowing my knee up, then doing a lot of physio and seeing Scherrit a few times, I've finally got a performance frame which is as close to fitting as I'm going to get.

I've put quite a lot of miles on it, and I'm super happy with the comfort, fit and feel of the bike. There are myriad other things, however, that I'm not happy with. I thought I'd start an extremely sluggish CP thread to mark what I'm thinking of doing to the bike in the next few months.

This is it, as it stands:

Cannondale SuperSix EVO frame + forks, 48cm
Mavic Ksyrium Equipe S Wheels / Tyes et al
SRAM Red 22 groupset, bar cassette, crank and chainrings
Cannondale SI Hollowgram crank, FSA 53/39 rings, Speedplays
KCNC seatpost and Selle Italia SLR
Cannondale branded 90mm stem and 42mm bars.

I weighed it today, via the traditional bathroom scales differential system, and with cages, pedals, Garmin mount et al it comes to bang on 7kg. Now, I haven't even trimmed the steerer from stock, so if I intend to get weight-weenie about it (and I do) then this is a pretty good base weight.

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Now, my aim for this was a fast race bike on which to train, do medium distances at high pace and eventually get in to racing. I feel like I'm reaching a pretty good base fitness at the moment, so I think I've earned some upgrades. This is the plan:

First things first, that fucking grim paintjob.

My last Supersix was actually a pretty nice colour straight out of the box. This, however, is not. My plan at the moment, is to send the thing to Armourtex for a matte black base, and have some custom decals cut. I'll probably keep the upwards facing downtube decal, and the two headtube->forkleg decals. The rest can go.

Initially I was leaning towards hot pink, but I didn't want to rip off Jammy's Tonic. Now I'm driving for either oil-slick chrome, chromaflare or decals cut out of an image like this. I can't quite decide whether this will be absolutely horrible or kind of interesting. If anyone has any better ideas, I'd be more than willing to hear them.

Bits:

My main concern for the moment is the wheels - Ksyriums are heavy and about as aero as a brick wall. I've signed up to the next pre-order for a set of Flo 60's, which tick many of the boxes for a decent set of aero rims: affordable (about $800, plus $80 shipping and tax), aero (torroidal), wide (24.4mm), few spokes (20/24) and alloy brake tracks (I still like slowing down). The only downside is weight, which is about 1900-2000g apparently.

Obviously I'd like some Firecrest 404s, but for the 500g weight saving over the Flo's, I think I'll save the ~£1.5k. My other temptation is to build some Farsport carbon clinchies to some decent lightweight hubs, but I'm not totally certainly they'll come out much cheaper than the Flo's, although they might be a bit lighter.

I'd probably stick some 23c front / 25c rear GP4000S II's on 'em, at SmallFurry's recommendation, and some supersonic tubes.

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Due to the vagaries of bike fit, my saddle is either at the far end of a layback (as it is now), or rammed to the front of an inline (as it is on my track bike). To get the saddle clamped fairly centrally, I need to find a lightweight post with a small amount of layback, maybe 10mm. I also need a new saddle, as this one creaks horribly. I was thinking about an SLR Superflow.

I was also going to pop on a 3T stealth stem, or a 95mm Tune if money allows. I'm fine with the bars and tape, although if I find some Deda Zero100's for cheap then I'll pop them on. I intend to get a low-stack headset cover too, although my stem will only slip an additional 5mm down the steerer at the end of the month, I just don't like conical spacers.

I'd also some some new chainrings, as I don't find these FSA ones very appealing. I was considering Q-rings, but I don't want to risk it with my recurring knee problems. I've recently seen these KCNC ones, which look pretty sweet. I wouldn't say no to a Spiderring to match the cranks, or failing that, some Rotor No-Q's or Praxis chainrings.

And that, barring some better quality cabling, will just about do it.