Is this Trek Madone the Best Looking Race Bike in the World?!

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  • Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
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    This might be the most insane race bike I’ve ever seen. And probably the most expensive as well. It’s a Trek Madone SLR that was actually raced in the Tour de France by former World Champion Mads Pedersen and on which he won stage 8. In this video we weigh and measure it, listen to the freehub and go through all the quirky and cool features on it. And price it up as well if you wanted to buy it, which you unbelievably can.
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  • @mikewikstrom3416
    @mikewikstrom3416 10 місяців тому +3

    I love this bike now, even though I thought it looked terrible at first. Really grew on me quickly and this paint job is the best.

  • @wesleygcoleman
    @wesleygcoleman 11 місяців тому +4

    4:25 when that bike starts to lean and you reach to grab it 😂. Very nice ride, thanks for giving us a thorough tour of it!

  • @wsbygt
    @wsbygt 11 місяців тому +29

    More amazing than looks is the fact that an 58size frame with glossy thick paintjob, big chainset and pretty normal 62 deep wheels got under 7.5Kg.

    • @natheirabu-dahab1446
      @natheirabu-dahab1446 11 місяців тому +6

      Its not under 7.5 once you add pedals, but it's still amazing.

    • @wsbygt
      @wsbygt 11 місяців тому

      @@natheirabu-dahab1446 Time Xpresso 15: 140g still under 7.5Kg with computer mount. Don´t forget the bike already has a Quarq powermeter. Amazing!

    • @natheirabu-dahab1446
      @natheirabu-dahab1446 11 місяців тому

      @@wsbygt the quarq power meter doesn't add much weight in and of itself. That doesn't make it any less impressive. I didn't know of the Xpresso 15s but FWIW mads runs dura ace pedals which are 230 grams. So his setup weighs more than 7.5 even though you could get it down below that. Regardless, this is an insane weight for that bike.

    • @wsbygt
      @wsbygt 11 місяців тому +5

      @@natheirabu-dahab1446 Yeah I know! Under 7.5Kg race ready(computer mount+pm+2bottle cages) or are you going to bring the number holder and bike race tag to the mix now?
      😶‍🌫

  • @philchevrier
    @philchevrier 11 місяців тому +8

    His gen6 madone was weighed at 8.05 so there's definitely a good weight reduction going on with his new Madone. I ride the same bike at the same size (Sram Force though) at 6'2'' and it's perfect.

    • @cmarnold78
      @cmarnold78 11 місяців тому

      Yeah, I think largely down to the Isospeed removal. Even the mid range SL7 with the lower spec carbon is now 8.0kg

  • @kimmovehkalahti8624
    @kimmovehkalahti8624 11 місяців тому +4

    Every part of my body hurts just looking at it ^^ Gorgeous paintjob indeed!

  • @darrenthomas9928
    @darrenthomas9928 11 місяців тому +5

    I would be too nervous to go out on my own , lots of gangs on mopeds. I've got the specialized tarmac sl8 pro, and I feel like I'm in the spotlight with that

    • @asebaninja
      @asebaninja 11 місяців тому

      Would only feel safe with this on a group ride, no chance in London alone.

  • @dblock8829
    @dblock8829 11 місяців тому +6

    More Pro bike reviews please.

  • @TheChindoboi
    @TheChindoboi 3 місяці тому

    Loved your comment about the slammed stem 😂 my back hurts just by looking at it 😂😂😂

  • @bryansmith7490
    @bryansmith7490 11 місяців тому +1

    That is a work of art!!

  • @OfficialTomsSkujinsFanClub
    @OfficialTomsSkujinsFanClub 7 місяців тому

    3:18 SRAM only gives the gold cassette and chain to current or former world champions so it’s even more exclusive

  • @declan979
    @declan979 11 місяців тому +1

    Is it just me or does it not look like all the bikes at the Taipei Cycling Show about 4 or 5 years ago? Chameleon paint, all the direct from china frames had this a few years ago.

  • @festerofest4374
    @festerofest4374 11 місяців тому

    What Paint! What bling!
    That bike show looks great... would love to go but I'm 3,255 miles away!

  • @seanmccuen6970
    @seanmccuen6970 11 місяців тому +1

    I love this new Madone. I hear these are simply good bikes that are just fun to ride, the fact it's a rocket is icing on the cake. if I was needing a race bike, I'd start with this frame set.

  • @bernardo9202
    @bernardo9202 11 місяців тому +1

    You have to be a current or former world champion to use the gold cassette and chain, in UCI races

  • @jonblake7871
    @jonblake7871 11 місяців тому

    S Works Roubaix in Green Pearl is pretty special too.

  • @abedfo88
    @abedfo88 11 місяців тому +6

    Absolutely amazing paint job, not sure I have the watts to pull it off 😂
    Btw, that fit is crazy im 6ft 2 and run 56cm frame. My saddle is way lower!

    • @speedsociety9177
      @speedsociety9177 11 місяців тому +1

      its all about leg length i guess. I am 6ft1 and definetly hitting the limits of my 56 frame

  • @BrianMcDonald
    @BrianMcDonald 11 місяців тому +6

    If they launched the bike with these paint jobs, I feel like they would have had a much more enthusiastic response from consumers.

    • @l.d.t.6327
      @l.d.t.6327 11 місяців тому +1

      until you see the price difference when you order a 'project one' version with a special paint scheme like this!

    • @BrianMcDonald
      @BrianMcDonald 11 місяців тому

      @@l.d.t.6327 That goes for every new top end bike as well unfortunately like lab71...I just meant more about the overall reception

    • @festerofest4374
      @festerofest4374 11 місяців тому +1

      They did. Just add $4000+

    • @Wanderer25
      @Wanderer25 11 місяців тому

      ​@@festerofest4374 That's another bike for that price. Insanity.

  • @bikeman123
    @bikeman123 11 місяців тому +2

    Coming to your club ride soon with an overweight middle aged exec on top of it.

  • @alainpfammatter8224
    @alainpfammatter8224 11 місяців тому +3

    Amazing bike. The most beautiful I have ever seen 🤩😍

  • @shiranRSA
    @shiranRSA 9 місяців тому

    Greetings … with many bicycles now offering custom or special paint jobs like Peterson amazing 🔥 Trek Madone … one would surely want to protect that special paint job from the elements and ride nasties … would something like PPF on vehicles work and would this be allowed … I see that Trek does sell RideWrap on their online store as well … I’m not sure if it could be ceramic coated as well in order to keep that one off work of art as mint as when it left the artists booth at factory

  • @imadogsass6717
    @imadogsass6717 11 місяців тому +1

    Just put on a traditional seat tube and I might consider getting one.

  • @Cycling_in_ja
    @Cycling_in_ja 11 місяців тому

    Trek is my favorite 😍 bike I have the gen 6 and want to get the gen 7 but there is no dealer in my country 😢

  • @jirimichalik8817
    @jirimichalik8817 6 місяців тому

    really beautiful bike

  • @thewisconsingravelcyclist
    @thewisconsingravelcyclist 11 місяців тому

    7.35 KG !!!! Wowzers Nice and light even for an aero bike!!! if it were lets say a 52 o even 54 we are getting real close to the 6.8 limit.

  • @maxlloyd3740
    @maxlloyd3740 11 місяців тому

    Lovely bike and spec but the paint job is not really doing it for me I'am afraid!
    Loved the earlier metallic red they were sporting or maybe a blue? A lot classier! 👍

  • @bartonbronstein8121
    @bartonbronstein8121 11 місяців тому +2

    the size makes no sense for his hight.

  • @shiranRSA
    @shiranRSA 9 місяців тому

    What bike wheel stand is that? Looks 🔥

  • @perjensen1962
    @perjensen1962 11 місяців тому +2

    Gold chain and cassette is for world champions 🏆

  • @stephen4347
    @stephen4347 11 місяців тому +5

    Is it worth IT? Can you buy IT twice? NO. That answers your question.

  • @urouroniwa
    @urouroniwa 11 місяців тому +1

    The paint job costs more than my own bike 🙂 Would be worth it, though. Just have to explain to the wife why we need a second mortgage...

    • @bernardo9202
      @bernardo9202 11 місяців тому

      Same 🤣🤣🤣 Still stuck on some horrid rim brakes bike

  • @Midnight5544
    @Midnight5544 11 місяців тому

    What brand is the water cage?

  • @daryltill70
    @daryltill70 11 місяців тому +10

    There’s no way someone 5’ 10” rides that bike 😂

  • @3dr1ch
    @3dr1ch 11 місяців тому +4

    £14 grand for a 7.4kg bike. What a joke! 🤦‍♂️

    • @logohigh1
      @logohigh1 11 місяців тому +2

      This is without pedals etc.

  • @markrskinner
    @markrskinner 11 місяців тому

    Never been a fan of aero bikes but that paint is "sick" as the young people say.

  • @TriathlonDan
    @TriathlonDan 11 місяців тому

    Phwooaaaaaarrrr that colourscheme! 100% a bit of me

  • @peterfreeman3317
    @peterfreeman3317 11 місяців тому

    Killer paint, but still no old Italian styled paint jobs or OG Klein paint schemes. Did they run out of ideas? Sure looks like it. I’ll buy a Time bike over this any day.

  • @robalexander7348
    @robalexander7348 11 місяців тому

    A stunning Trek Madone bike, i weant one now 👍 Au

  • @bebopman5
    @bebopman5 11 місяців тому

    That bike is so fire; I also ride a 58 at 5'11, and I have the seatpost height maxed out, 175mm cranks, and a high stack saddle to accommodate my fit lol.

    • @inntw4889
      @inntw4889 11 місяців тому

      Out of curiosity, what's the reason for riding such a large frame with the seat post at max height? I'm just under 5'11 with very long legs (about 85cm inseam barefoot) and was looking to get a 56 frame for my next aero road bike. What would be the benefit of going 58?

  • @hugohillhill9240
    @hugohillhill9240 11 місяців тому +2

    Might look better in Space

  • @the_derpler
    @the_derpler 11 місяців тому

    That thing looks so cool. It'd be interesting to ride! Even though I'm a fat MAMIL lol.

  • @gsmd770
    @gsmd770 11 місяців тому

    A stunner!!!

  • @justinecooper9575
    @justinecooper9575 11 місяців тому +1

    To answer the question in the video title. IMO, absolutely not. It's an eyesore. The paint scheme looks like it was designed by a preschooler on hallucinogens and the fat rims look like something off of a kid's plastic tricycle. Now, to state my biases, I prefer the look of lugged steel frames so fat tubes and thick rims will never appeal aesthetically to me. On the other hand, there's no doubt in my mind that the bicycle in the video is more efficient and effective as a racing bike than a lugged steel frame bike, but that wasn't the question. As an aside, I've always believed that very wide down tubes are a thing just so that the manufacturer or team name is more visible and/or readable.

  • @VH5150BAZ
    @VH5150BAZ 11 місяців тому

    It’s almost as beautiful as my Sagan Venge

  • @jackfros-e3s
    @jackfros-e3s 11 місяців тому

    NO, my Colnago C50 with Mapei air brushed paint is. Never seen any bike look better.

  • @logohigh1
    @logohigh1 11 місяців тому +2

    So the most modern expensive bike available is going to be 1 kilo over what it should be
    where is the progress here

    • @benhardwick1970
      @benhardwick1970 11 місяців тому +1

      Because a kilo won’t make a huge difference over a grand tour but being aero and deeper wheels will.

    • @logohigh1
      @logohigh1 11 місяців тому

      Well tours are won up hill , so really it should make a difference .
      But of course if everyone is lumped wit the same heavy machinery it's irrelevant , on the flat the aero proabably just about compensates for the extra poundage
      again where is the progress
      meanwhile the club rider is priced off the road
      deep wheels have been here for quite some time btw lol@@benhardwick1970

    • @OfficialTomsSkujinsFanClub
      @OfficialTomsSkujinsFanClub 7 місяців тому

      people are so so obsessed with weight, a kilo is not going to make much of a difference, considering the man riding the bike weighs 70 kilos. weight is not the end all be all on a road bike

  • @edymarkonthego4096
    @edymarkonthego4096 11 місяців тому +1

    Titanium is now a carbon. 😅

  • @danielgentili1320
    @danielgentili1320 11 місяців тому +1

    Ridiculous frame shape... seriously if that is the future, not for me.

  • @quincywalker4441
    @quincywalker4441 11 місяців тому +2

    The price wants to make me vomit

  • @caffeineisking8132
    @caffeineisking8132 2 місяці тому

    God damn i should of been a dentist

  • @Flashback_Jack
    @Flashback_Jack 10 місяців тому

    Looks one one of those cheap Chinese oilslick fixie frames.

  • @SuperTaylor68
    @SuperTaylor68 11 місяців тому

    Absolutely stunning❤

  • @huangyidonghuang
    @huangyidonghuang 11 місяців тому

    so beaut

  • @kimpedersen
    @kimpedersen 11 місяців тому +1

    just send it to me - namesticker allready matches ;) D*MN it looks good!

  • @robertgreiner4703
    @robertgreiner4703 11 місяців тому

    I really like your channel Arthur. Thank you for all your great content. In my opinion this is the WORST looking bike ever !

  • @edgarcintronec
    @edgarcintronec 11 місяців тому

    So amazing that only the rich folks can get it!! Or do you think that must of us bike lovers walk around with 25,000 in our pockets at all times??? 👀 Seriously 😂

  • @aDi2608
    @aDi2608 4 місяці тому

    If you are a pro... Its free😁

  • @yoavmiller216
    @yoavmiller216 11 місяців тому +2

    Unpopular opinion: The scale between good taste and a horrible one is not a straight line, but rather a curved one, that sometimes goes all the way round untill both ends meet. This is the closest a bike gets to being high end, and at the same time full of flashy nonsense. The toxic mix of money and lack of awareness is what makes a person content with sitting on top of a giant shiny oil spill. this is the type of product that exposes the real divide between a pro, and his ego, and most of us.

    • @LosihoTTT
      @LosihoTTT 11 місяців тому

      I'm glad someone else said this. Most expensive - and ugliest. Never been a fan of the Madone's seat tube design.

  • @fen2453
    @fen2453 2 місяці тому

    I cant believe they killed this bike in 2 years.

  • @adambowman1812
    @adambowman1812 11 місяців тому +2

    The worst designed bicycle frame of the last few years. The paint job is a case of rolling a turd in glitter.

  • @alexgonzalezMI
    @alexgonzalezMI 10 місяців тому

    I don't know why bike companies make these ridiculously expensive bikes. Amateurs who actually race don't buy them. No one wants to crash a 20k bike.

  • @Bikesbikesbikes500
    @Bikesbikesbikes500 11 місяців тому +1

    4 grand for a paint job. It's a stunning bike but it's got silly

    • @logohigh1
      @logohigh1 11 місяців тому +1

      you could get pro paint job Martin Grey ETOE and a frame thrown for free for this money

  • @johntrussell7228
    @johntrussell7228 11 місяців тому

    2 lbs heavier than an S-Works Tarmac. Cool bike but super heavy with very limited tire clearance and a seatpost design that is very prone to failure.

  • @malmsey1541
    @malmsey1541 11 місяців тому +1

    Mads is definitely more like 6ft1

  • @johanntiedtke
    @johanntiedtke 11 місяців тому

    This bike is mega. Which i could ride it with similiar measurements. With an endurance fitting is looks just shit…. 😂

  • @erin7995
    @erin7995 11 місяців тому

    the bike doesnt even look real when your crouching next to it looks like AI

  • @andrewhayes7055
    @andrewhayes7055 11 місяців тому

    The Best Looking Race Bike Ever?!
    Err no!!! paint job is nice that's about it.

  • @Omeiden
    @Omeiden 11 місяців тому +3

    what the heck is 5 foot 1 inches, but then you measure his bike in cm?!??

    • @LeConcerto
      @LeConcerto 11 місяців тому +1

      Are you serious?

    • @davidarthur
      @davidarthur  11 місяців тому +4

      That's how we roll in the UK ;)

    • @ozgurinsan
      @ozgurinsan 11 місяців тому +1

      please metric.

    • @urouroniwa
      @urouroniwa 11 місяців тому

      @@ozgurinsan 177 cm give or take...

    • @TheCountrySteve
      @TheCountrySteve 11 місяців тому +1

      Welcome to the confusing world of British weights and measures!

  • @JBSpine007
    @JBSpine007 11 місяців тому +5

    The Trek Madone is a very poorly designed bike. If you buy it you have to cut your seat post to fit. To say the hole is “more aero” is beyond stupid because there is no aero benefit at that point of the bike. Your body has the biggest effect on the drag especially at the seat post!

    • @ozmote
      @ozmote 11 місяців тому

      how often do you need to adjust your post height tho

  • @김진석-e7h
    @김진석-e7h 4 місяці тому

    처음에 이뻐보일지 몰라도 시간이 갈수록 색상이 질릴것같음~^^

  • @Optichin
    @Optichin 11 місяців тому

    0 comfort

  • @steveberens9593
    @steveberens9593 11 місяців тому +1

    No it's looks 💩

  • @deanf2259
    @deanf2259 11 місяців тому

    Quite simply no

  • @MarkLRandall
    @MarkLRandall 11 місяців тому

    Nope.

  • @paulhiggins9492
    @paulhiggins9492 11 місяців тому

    Utterly ridiculous 7.35kg I own the exact bike it’s 8.03kg, heavy clunkers these days I’m an ex pro team mech, I build top bikes for under 2k and we or I will challenge you to a weight or road test you’ll be staggered

  • @AddMoreQuarters
    @AddMoreQuarters 11 місяців тому +1

    No. It looks quite awful actually.

  • @henryponiovasquez
    @henryponiovasquez 11 місяців тому +1

    Best looking? Just over rated.

  • @dominicbritt
    @dominicbritt 11 місяців тому +1

    That colour scheme is absolutely grim 🤮

  • @donwinston
    @donwinston 11 місяців тому

    Awesome paint job and decent weight for a large aero frame but I don't like this bike. Isoflow is a gimmick and looks ugly. Trek does kind of thing a lot like bikes with bowed top tubes and unnecessary suspension features.