Originally Posted by
Koyote
You may be joking...But I had mym custom frame built with a tall headtube in order to avoid a big stack of spacers -- only to discover that spacers look better.
I was not joking. My Synapse came with a +6 degree stem on top of a 55 mm stack of headset spacers (including the headset top cap); see page 8 (left side of Acrobat page 6).
129387_oms_synapsecarbon_en_low.pdf (cannondale.com)