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dancing james-
is this because they were really designed for hydro?
No, the alloy Synapse were designed to run with cable pull brakes, you can however run full hydraulic which required even more tweaking.
It's just I had never build/service a Synapse Alloy whose rear disc felt silkily smooth.
Just look at the cable housing (that's the entire length, it stop just inside the chainstay), it's even more awkward with the Promax and TRP calipers.
edscoble
Have to strip and rebuild a Cannondale Synpase Alloy Disc.
It's the worse design for cable pull disc brake ever.
The front is fine, easy to make the brake nice and powerful unlike factory, but the rear, that fucking rear, no matter how careful I route the cable, it always feel like the cable is rubbing on ever part of the frame before it hit the calipers.
Whose idea was to put a cable stop right near the headtube, all the way to the rear chainstay??
Even the cheap and cheerful Pinnacle Dolomite have flat mount and front true axles, which is non-existence right up to the Synapse Hi-mod.