Introducing Trek Madone Gen 8: Product & Development Deep Dive

The eighth generation Madone is an earth-shattering combination of Trek's lightest and fastest road race bikes. Equal parts Madone. Equal parts Émonda. Hear from Trek engineers, aerodynamicists and the product team about the ultimate race bike's development and how its ambitious weight, aero, and compliance goals were met.
Learn more the all-new Madone 8: trek.bike/ExploreMadoneGen8

[@Lockeness86]

Basically, the team wanted something that could compete against the Specialized SL8, the Cannondale SuperSix Evo HiMod 2, and the Pinarello Dogma F. It looks great to me!

[@Itsmemario488]

You sure this isn’t about cost savings for the company?

[@Alex-md6bu]

Probably more to do with keyboard warriors claiming that aero bikes were too heavy and lightweights had the aero properties of a brick…

[@ramsden35]

Amazing progress and knowledge. I’m understanding why it costs £12600

[@hooiken]

ad scam😂trek always no the GC bike

[@davidparker8475]

I applaud the effort and result of blending aero with less weigh. I wonder if Trek has plans to also revamp the wheels (lighter) which would even more weigh savings to all models. It is a competition when it comes to other brands, Specialized, Giant to name a couple. Light(set) weigh matters to the buyer/athlete. BEAUTIFUL Bike. Sexy with brains, a hands down winner.

[@knmagor0024-xw8pl]

next thing trek will do is mix this madone with their domane and form one bike. They will then do it with checkpoint, and eventually the only bike trek produces for mountain, road, kids, and urban is Madone.

[@jesushuerta4930]

How much better would the gen 7 madone be with the new carbon and water bottle design?

[@BrianAndTheBike]

The entry level it's on spot for the price tag and tech, but everything else looks like a desesperate effort for cost cutting

[@spardamustdie47]

"There's only ONE the ultimate race bike" vs. "ONE bike to rule them all" 🤔

[@knmagor0024-xw8pl]

Give me that E2 prototype I would be elated to ride that.

[@fen2453]

finally someone who cares about smaller riders

[@pedalandchill]

Oops, already was able to watch this 2 days ago lol

[@typhoid77]

🎉🎉🎉

[@jesushuerta4930]

I think the emonda and madone both needed one more interaction or generation before they became one

[@Thebikewrench]

This is all about cutting down on SKU’s in order to cut down on overhead.

[@grazryan]

I got my gen 7 lass than a year. Then this came out😂

[@andersonramalho3225]

🤙🚴

[@jauxed]

So I need to buy this new model so I can fit the water bottle that the pros throw on the road 😭.

[@ghostrider7103]

Create an aero shape for heavier riders that’s 200 -215 pounds.

[@thisishowthetruthdies684]

Trek makes good bikes but aesthetically just not a fan of the outset seat tube.

[@imranwahid11]

I am glad I just brought a Gen7 Madone. Not sure if I want to buy this one.

[@ekm3820]

I ordered one. Rode one today. It’s light and fast

[@c0reying]

What do you feel the disadvantage of the Gen 8 is over the Gen 7?

[@ekm3820]

@@c0reying imo There is no disadvantage here. They are all fast bikes but some people are just disappointed Trek released Gen 8 to replace the 7 and also weight of Gen 8 is lighter.

[@antoinedoinell]

you guys will end up ditching that stupid seat post and going back to double triangle eventually

[@hooiken]

完全抄madone的空力造型 還可以拍個科研說到好像新技術這樣 所以廣告拍得好一點又可以騙人開高價

[@M3GRSD]

It really is a shame that Lidl is Trek's main team sponsor because that paint job is truly horrendous.

[@robmeredith9631]

@trek failed by not changing the name of the new combined bike. Bike should be called the Madonna

[@user-kk5yq1ub2d]

Trying to save money?

[@user-cx2bk6pm2f]

Trek make great bikes, on par with the best in the world.

[@svenlima]

This bike has a beautiful paint job. However: The TREK bikes for "normal" people are bloody ugly: covered over and over with disgusting stickers that you can't peel off because Trek put paint over it. Even the wheel have ugly stickers on them. WHY, Trek, WHY? Why do you do this? Would you buy a fancy car that is covered with stickers and - in addition to tha sacrilege - has the brand name written in HUGE letters over the whole car? You probably wouldn't. Why do you do it with your bicycles? Can't the branding be more decent?

[@josephreilman8527]

Thanks guys. You made a heavier emonda and an uglier less aero Madone. And if we want it to be "Just as aero" we have to pay $200 for bottles and cages. Once again you piss on what the customer wants. And to charge $1300 MORE for a frameset you made purely based on an economic crisis is laughable. As in ha ha, not getting my money

[@tk4329]

Yeah and the prices going ridiculous cost more than a motorbike. This world is ridiculous and stupid people buying it. Talking about aerodynamic with a moving rider again ridiculous

[@RobertKnight001]

I love Trek Bikes... However, I have to be honest. I'm pretty disappointed with todays release.

[@knmagor0024-xw8pl]

they should have sticked with that E2 prototype instead.

[@peterago1082]

Trek and all the rest of the major bike company's are copying Specialized SL8, stop acting like your innovators

[@ks-vq5er]

This is too heavy. Tarmac is far better in weight

[@ekm3820]

Difference in frameset weight is 96g. It’s not that much imo