Madone

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.

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.

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.

No-Compromise Bottom Bracket

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.

What is Net Molding?

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.

Precision Fit Sockets™

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.

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.

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.

Trek offers three different OCLV Carbon frames, each designed to give riders the right balance of performance and value. All are handmade in the USA using our patented OCLV Carbon process.

OCLV Red

Trek's highest-performance carbon fiber, OCLV Red uses a significant percentage of high modulus carbon fiber arranged according to our most complex lay-up schedules.

OCLV Black

Trek's high-performance carbon fiber, OCLV Black employs intermediate modulus carbon fiber and our time-tested lay-up schedules.

OCLV White

Trek's value-oriented performance carbon fiber, OCLV White uses predominantly standard modulus carbon fiber for outstanding value.

What is OCLV Carbon?

OCLV is the precise combination of heat, pressure, materials and experience that produces an infinitely long lasting, vibration damping, lightweight, internally strong composite that's ideal for bicycle construction.

As OCLV Carbon frame construction has become more and more sophisticated, carbon fiber material variety, lay-up schedules, and manufacturing processes have all likewise continued to increase in complexity. As a result, it's significantly more challenging to identify a specific frame as 55GSM, 110GSM, or 120GSM, because every frame is actually a hybrid of a variety of materials arranged according to sophisticated lay-up schedules. By changing the material hierarchy to Red, Black, and White, we can still rank frame materials and talk about a range of OCLV products, but it won't be necessary to rely on associations to specific carbon fiber materials or GSM numbers.

The proliferation of carbon fiber in today's bicycle market underscores the need for Trek to maintain leadership. By calling out specific materials (like 110GSM), second-tier frame manufacturers can attempt to equate their frame to ours by pointing out that they use the same material as Trek. This tactic allows them to shift the discussion away from process capability and material usage strategies, and focus the discussion on the materials themselves. But the same (or similar) ingredients don't equate to the same end product. With carbon fiber structures, process is critical.

And process, specifically our patented OCLV Carbon process, is where Trek's true advantage lies. By de-emphasizing specific materials and instead focusing the discussion on our OCLV Carbon process – a process we invented 16 years ago and have been refining ever since –Trek can leverage our manufacturing, engineering, and design expertise to underscore the unique nature of our carbon fiber frames: a difference we're confident makes for the best carbon fiber frames on the planet.

An industry first. Our new Speed Trap™ technology allows you to put a 2.4 GHz wireless sensor directly into the fork leg itself. The result is a clean look that preserves aerodynamics and a sensor that installs in seconds. Say goodbye to the zip ties. Speed Trap technology is built into Bontrager's Madone-specific Race and Race Lite forks, and is found on Trek Road models 1.5 though Madone 5.1.

Note: Fork includes integrated pocket, but Speedtrap sensor unit must be purchased separately.

All the features of a typical cycling computer combined with altimeter, cadence and heart rate for all the training information any cyclist would need.

• 2.4 GHz digital transmission eliminates cross talk and has range to 3 meters.
• Separate speed and cadence sensors for flexible mounting options.
• Mounts to both standard and OS handlebars.

Features: Altimeter, Wireless Cadence, Maximum Cadence, Heart Rate Zones, Average Heart Rate, Maximum Heart Rate. Trip Time in and Above Heart Rate, Percent Grade, Average Percent Grade, Maximum Percent Grade, Current Speed, Average Speed, Maximum Speed, Odometer, Trip Distance, Elapsed Time, Ride Time, 12/24 Hour Clock, Pacer, Temperature Gauge, Dual Wheel Size, Low Battery Indicator, Backlight

• Driven by new standards. No constraints here.
• No90 construction allows the carbon fibers to run continuous without sharp bends from the steer tube to the fork crown to the fork legs.
• 1.5 inch bearing race section = less material used and higher strength.
• Net Molded bearing race places the 1.5 inch bearing directly on the carbon crown race seat, removing the need for a traditional metal bearing race seat.
• Tool-less installation. No machining, pressing, or pounding required to install (there is no lower race to set, and there are no cups to press in)
• Increased tire clearance because of 1.5 inch size.

• 3D-forged one-piece steerer and crown design saves 100 grams.
• Reverse bond crown and fork leg design replaces solid aluminum with hollow carbon.
• 1.5 inch built-in, self-aligning lower bearing race.
• Increases strength at the highest stress location of the fork.
• Tool-less installation. No machining or pounding required. No cups, no races to install.
• Increased tire clearance.

The racer's choice, the Pro Fit Madone uses the same aggressive fit as the original Madone that passed cycling's most grueling tests at races like the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

For racers and enthusiasts alike, the Performance Fit Madone shares the Pro Fit's ProTour geometry, but features a 30mm taller head tube that provides a slightly higher hand position.

Designed specifically for women, the WSD Fit Madone is based on the Performance Fit, but fine-tuned to address a woman's different body structure.