After just lately teasing a brand new bike on social media through the Giro d’Italia, Lidl-Trek riders have been noticed aboard what seems to be a brand new version of the model’s Madone aero bike on the key Tour de France tune up race, the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Pictures of the bike present the phrase Madone clearly marked on the highest tube. Nevertheless, Trek is evidently eager to maintain the guessing sport going, with nearer inspection revealing the title Émonda simply exhibiting by way of beneath the white lettering.
Each the phrases Madone and Emonda may be seen, however the former is stronger, in white
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Since Trek’s climbing centered Émonda hasn’t been up to date since 2020, while the aero Madone had a refresh in 2022, data of biking’s product cycles would counsel the previous could be subsequent in line for a renewal. Nevertheless, when it grew to become clear {that a} new bike was on the playing cards, at Biking Weekly, we positioned our bets on a Madone.
Now that the bike is being ridden on the Tour warm-up race, it seems to be an increasing number of probably that we’re anticipating an aero racer, and even perhaps the tip of the Émonda climbing machine.
Different manufacturers, most notably Specialised with the Tarmac SL8, have converged their aero and light-weight bikes, to create one all function machine, and it seems to be as if Trek could also be aiming to supply the identical for the likes of Mads Pedersen and Tao Geoghegan Hart.
The brand new bike nonetheless options Trek’s ‘IsoFlow’ tech, a gap within the seat tube which changed the compliance boosting ‘Isospeed’ that Trek was so well-known for, within the title of improved aerodynamics.
The bike ridden by Lidl-Trek on the Dauphine options Trek’s IsoFlow tech
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After all, it is doable Trek could have utilized this tech to its climbing machine. Nevertheless, the fork legs have the same depth to the model’s aero machine and the kink within the downward floor of the bike’s prime tube remains to be current.
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Clearly, no matter title the bike will take, it really works – Pedersen rode to victory and claimed the race’s first yellow chief’s jersey aboard the brand new weapon.
Having been the supply of hypothesis for a number of months, it is apparent that this bike is primed for use by Lidl-Trek riders through the Tour and different main races this season.
In the meantime, different model new bikes have been noticed on the Dauphiné final weekend. This included the brand new Pinarello Dogma F and a recent new Canyon Aeroroad.
