Treks New Madone, a bike that only Trek could build.

NO CONSTRAINTS The all-new Madone® began when Trek's Advanced Concept Group (ACG) challenged itself to create the finest all-day performance bike. There would be a blank slate — no givens or constraints. Anything and everything could be questioned. The only requirements: No compromises between ride quality and weight. Merge form and function. Make it striking and make it beautiful. Trek didn't set out to make the lightest or stiffest bike, or the best ratio of the two. That would have been relatively easy. The real goal would be much more difficult to achieve, yet much more groundbreaking: a truly refined blend of maximum structural efficiency, optimum comfort, and complete ride experience. A bike with a ride quality as supreme as it was sublime. In a word, balanced.

Moving Past the Podium By the time Lance stepped off cycling's center stage in 2005, Trek was already preparing to transform the Madone beyond elite racing machine to the ultimate performance experience. To make it happen would take the kind of learning that comes from seven consecutive Tour de France victories, 15-plus years of OCLV Carbon engineering, and input from some of the world's most discerning riders. Together, Trek and Lance understood what it would take to become the absolute best. On the development of the all-new Madone, Trek's dedication and focus were just that — absolute. It has been the biggest design project Trek has undertaken on any bike, at any time. For almost two years, an army of designers, engineers, physicists, chemists, carbon producers, bike shop owners, project managers, average riders — and a few above average riders that go by the names of George, Levi, Popo and Lance — scrutinized every detail of the all-new Madone in relentless pursuit of the ultimate ride.

ONLY FROM TREK Madone is synonymous with unmatched ride quality because there's something extraordinary about the feel of OCLV Carbon. The consistency and reliability of the OCLV Carbon process gives riders the right amount of feedback to keep them in tune with the road, while Trek's signature Multi-piece Construction Method optimizes each section of the frame to deliver specific performance characteristics. There's also Trek's relentless commitment to dialing in the ride quality: The all-new Madone went through countless hours of FEA analysis, a battery of real-world ride testing, and 30 different lay-up schedules before engineers pinpointed the precise formula to stay true to the Madone's legendary feel. As well as the fact that Trek employs more carbon engineers than some competitors have employees. In the end, it all adds up to make the all-new Madone a bike that only Trek could build.

Technology

Precision Fit Sockets™

Net Molding is a process that creates exceptionally precise carbon fiber shapes that mitigate the need for secondary machining operations. The new Madone uses OCLV Net Molded tubes and lugs that “snap” together for perfect alignment. The Net Molding process enabled Trek to create Precision Fit Sockets™. This means that the bottom bracket and headset faces are assembly-ready directly from the mold. There is no need for headset cups, races or bottom bracket cups, which only exist to hold the bearings. With Precision Fit Sockets, the bearings slide directly into the frame without tools or presses. It's incredibly simple and amazingly easy. OCLV HexMC™ (Molded Carbon), the material that makes this slip fit bearing system possible, has been tested beyond millions of cycles to ensure long lasting performance.

Centred on Performance

ControlCore™ is the center from which all performance starts with the all-new Madone. ControlCore utilizes a size-specific seat lug/top tube section that gets larger in diameter and stiffness as frame size increases while creating a direct link from the top tube to the seatstay. ControlCore also combines the industry's widest down tube/bottom bracket design with oversized asymmetric box section chain stays. ControlCore technology allows Trek engineers to tune lateral flex to provide outstanding steering and rear triangle precision. The all-new Madone's ControlCore™ is a two-part system made up of the seatstay/top tube junction and downtube/bottom bracket/chainstay cluster, ControlCore utilizes a size-specific seat lug/top tube section that gets larger in diameter and stiffness as frame size increases, while creating a direct link from the top tube to the seatstay. ControlCore also combines the industry's widest downtube/bottom bracket design with oversized asymmetric box-section chain stays. ControlCore technology allows Trek engineers to tune lateral flex to provide outstanding steering and rear triangle precision. Supporting the ControlCore ideal are construction techniques that have been applied to the whole of the fuselage design. We reduced the number of joints by 40% to save weight and located the joints in areas of the fuselage that inherently require support (where the front derailleur band wraps around the seat tube, for example). Our Net Molding process makes assembly-ready, extremely precise OCLV parts that, when combined, make a perfectly aligned fuselage.

Bottom Bracket

Nearly all other frame designs on the road are restricted by the need to stay within the industry standard 68mm bottom bracket shell width. Not so with the all-new Madone, which uses Net Molding carbon technology and Precision Fit Sockets™ to place the bottom bracket bearings directly in the frame itself. The result is an exclusive 90mm wide bottom bracket that provides a 48% increase in lateral down tube stiffness at the bottom bracket. Designed to accept most two-piece crank designs from Shimano®, Bontrager®, SRAM®, FSA®, and Campagnolo® without affecting the q-factor, the integrated bottom bracket design saves 40 grams compared to traditional designs. There are two reasons traditional frames use a 68mm bottom bracket shell width: tradition or necessity. But the relatively narrow, 68mm dimension restricts the amount of real estate available for bearing placement, creative lug shapes, and larger, stiffer and stronger tube sections. The all-new Madone abandons these traditions by moving to a 90mm-wide bottom bracket shell. The wider shell moves the bearings outboard to make your crankset more efficient (with the sacred q-factor left unchanged). The wider shell also allows for greater tube sections and stiffer shapes at the downtube/bottom bracket and chainstay/bottom bracket junctions. There simply is more real estate to work with by having the broadest, most efficient bottom bracket shell in the business – and Trek engineers took full advantage of the space they created.

New No90 Fork and E2 steerer

With standard 1-1/8 inch steer tubes, fork designers are forced to create abrupt, 90 bends where the fork crown transitions to the steer tube. To compensate for these naturally weaker bends, forks must then be overbuilt for strength. This process adds weight. The all-new Madone's fork is different. It uses an oversized E2™ 1.5 inch lower steer tube that, when combined with our No90™ construction method, effectively removes these typical bends by allowing the carbon fibers to run straighter and continuously through the entire fork. Thanks to E2's larger diameter, No90 construction utilizes carbon's inherent straight-line strength to create forks that are significantly lighter (up to 120 grams lighter) than previous Madone forks.

New Seat Post design

Traditional seatpost systems place the clamping mechanism at a very high stress point on the frame, requiring the seat tube to be overbuilt to withstand the rocking forces of the post. The all-new Madone's seat mast design solves this problem by eliminating the post entirely and moving the clamping mechanism above the stress zone. This design not only achieves a 25% weight reduction compared to a standard carbon seatpost, but also allows the seat tube to flex in a more natural way, improving vertical compliance by 39% compared to last year's Madone. Compared to other seat mast designs in the market, there is no cutting required on Trek's mast and cap design. This makes it the only design with the full range of adjustment found on inserted seatpost designs – in fact, the all-new Madone seat mast has the same amount of seat height adjustability as the '07 Madone with a 250mm post. And just so the new Madone rider has all the fit options available, the seat mast will be available in three different offsets (10mm forward, 5mm and 20mm rearward) and two different lengths. Each cap also incorporates 6 degrees of lateral movement and infinite tilt adjustability. These various cap options, coupled with both Pro and Performance Fit frames ranging from 50cm to 64cm in 2cm increments, accommodates a much wider base of riders than ever before.

Frameset

Sizes: 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62 cm

Colors; Onyx Carbon/White

Frame; OCLV Black Series Carbon

Fork: Bontrager Race X Lite w/E2 steerer; carbon

Frameset Available: Yes

Wheels

Wheels: Bontrager Race Lite

Tires: Bontrager Race X Lite, 700x23c, folding

Drivetrain

Drive Option: Double or Triple

Shifters: Shimano Ultegra SL STI, 10 speed

Front Derailleur: Shimano Ultegra SL

Rear Derailleur: Shimano Ultegra SL

Crank: Shimano Ultegra SL 50/34 or 52/39/30

Cassette: Shimano Ultegra 11-25 or 12-27, 10 speed

Components

Saddle: Bontrager Race Lite

Seatpost: Carbon seat mast cap

Stem: Bontrager Race X Lite, 7 degree, 31.8mm

Handlebars: Bontrager Race Lite VR, 31.8mm

Headset: Cane Creek IS-2 Integrated w/cartridge bearings, sealed, alloy; 1 1/8" top, 1.5" bottom

Brakeset: Shimano Ultegra SL w/Shimano Ultegra SL STI Levers