It’s definitely worth a try, will give it a go on my friends GEN 7. How you liking your madone?

@@DanEscapes I love my gen7. It’s crazy how well it holds speed once you’re moving. Mine is an SLR7 and I’m running RSL62 wheels.

cannot agree more ! i do also have a gen7 Madone and i like sturdy bike !

I also own a Gen7 in the original quick silver color and much prefer the aero styling over this new bike. I understand the logic, but I’m partially a looks queen when it comes to my bikes. Got the Pinarello Grevil for gravel for much of the same reason.

The colour is great, thanks for watching!

Yeah, price tag is too high. The SL 6 looks pretty good though.

Even better in person

Thanks Inca, need to take it for some Richmond laps!!

Really liking the way this one looks! Am a big fan of emonda.

I agree as well. However I’m still not a fan of the hole under the seat post

@@JohnKleman1hey, I have the choice between a madone SL 6 AXS gen 8 or a emonda SLR 7 AXS which one would you choose ? Due to one would be the SL therefore the new model and the other a great emonda and therefore the SLR.. Thank you very much, i am a bit of overwhelmed…

@@saaaleeeh To be honest I'm not sure. I would say it depends on your needs and riding style. If you have a way to test ride both of them I would do that, and then see which you prefer before making a purchase because of the price they're at. I have ridden several emondas over the years and have always personally preferred how they felt over the madone. I haven't ridden the latest generation of madone yet so I can't say anything to that one. But definitely if you have a way to test ride both of them do that first.

Thank you!!! I feel they will update especially as trek are moving to UDH. The domane AL has it, this new madone, images I saw at unbound the checkpoint has a UDH.

With the slr model it comes with a mount, and has a garmin and wahoo puck mount you can choose between

It is super nice! Especially the colour!

Will be a great 2nd bike!! I tried one out briefly and felt smooth and fast and if you like the wide tires on the domane can add them to this bike.

My Cannondale Synapse hybrid weighs the same with mtb pedals computer and bell

Speedy!

Definitely fit some 33c cx tires. Have it set up with sram transmission mtb derailleur.

@@DanEscapesthis bike would pair up perfectly with the upcoming 13 speed red xplr transmission

Yeah that seems like a good option, what about seat post? They got the tall and short options

@@DanEscapes yeah they do. I always go for the long one. Somehow short has never worked for me.

@@ekm3820 that’s good to know! Which bike you going for?

@@DanEscapes SLR ultegra build with RSL wheelset

@@ekm3820 that will be a great build, make sure you upgrade to ceramic speed bb!

I'm sorry, but disc/electronic is basically non negotiable these days. I'm certainly not riding with someone on rim brakes with vastly different stopping distance to everyone else.

@@djh9769 WHAT!!!! SO you are riding together with you pal, he hits the brake really hard...have you time to react if you are behind??? If you are riding in a group you need to brake slowly. So there is no need for discbrakes. And in my whole life i have never wanted or wished i could brake any harder. Downhill you can with ease make you backwheel lift with rimbrakes. What have happened in peleton. Lots of crashed and lifted backwheel because these discbrakes. I rather change my puncture with a ordinary wheel, so much faster. YOU REALLY ARE DUMB :)

Not why people buy expensive bikes. Just like people buy sports cars to sit in traffic. You can afford it and want it. Don’t be so salty.

I love riding my expensive light bike

Well, I like it! A lot!

I know they are partnered for their race teams. You can get all the madone gen 8 models with shimano, and you can only get sram with the SL 6, SLR 7 and SLR 9. That is here in the UK not sure about the rest of the world.

It started as the Émonda Gen 4, then they noticed that the aero was too similar to the Madone and decided to mix and match. At the end it does have much more from the Émonda than the Madone. I definitely would have chosen a complete new name and throw away the old naming.

I thought it was the same weight the Emonda

That's totally false. 56 Frames Both: SL Émonda Gen 3 Frame/Fork = 1,629gr SL Madone Gen 8 Frame/Fork = 1,417gr Madone Gen 8 SL is 212gr lighter. SLR Émonda Gen 3 Frame/Fork = 1,141gr SLR Madone Gen 8 Frame/Fork = 1,146gr Madone Gen 8 SLR is 5gr heavier. With the SL you get a bike lighter than the Émonda with the same Aero capabilities of Gen 7. With the SLR you get a bike with the the same Aero capabilities of Gen 7 and as light as an Émonda.

@@HatRock thanks for this clarification. I love my Trek Emonda and am contemplating getting a new bike, which would likely be the new Madone, but was getting put off by claims it was not light enough. I will recheck on this. Again thanks

@@fabianmolyneux2308 you're welcome 😁

I knew it was going to divide opinions, lots of people still like the emonda and now that’s going 😩

as long as someone is buying these 10x price markup the companies wont lower the price, i mean put the right price!

... motorcycles* (same as "pounds" and "cars" plural, no apostrophe). Otherwise mostly agreed. The new Trek frame though is far from being as ugly as the melted turds knowns as Pinarello

@@einundsiebenziger5488 Thank you for the grammar lesson but when i write on the internet i neither care for spelling nor grammar, much. I do but not gonna go nuts proof reading it. English is also my second language. Sad thing is that people buy these bikes and all its does is make the bikes go even higher in price. Some"high" end bikes now are pushing into the 20k range. But you are not even getting the 20k's worth of value as they are still being thrown out of the factories with oval BB holes. And for 20k i expect a perfectly round hole with the correct tolerances. Hambini tears people apart that produce oval holes yet charge 20k.

You know what’s ironic? People who complains because they don’t have enough money calling people who have extra money to afford this kind of luxury fools. Bro how about you spend your time doing better things so you can make more money.

@@supermitendo9654 Couple of issues with your post. The first is obvious, i think. English is not your first language. If it is, you need to go back to school and demand your money back. Second issue is don't make assumptions about people. If i have issues with a bike's price this does not mean i cant afford it. It means i do not think it is good value for money. Chances are that the bottom brackets are not even round and within tolerances of an interference fit. Meaning it is oval. If you want to see how often expensive bikes are actual junk, then go to hambini's page here on youtube. He is a chartered aerospace engineer here in the UK. He on a regular basis gets bikes that are very expensive indeed and are pure junk if not bordering on the dangerous. Oval bottom brackets are as common as dog's pissing on tree's. Expensive bikes are not immune from his findings. Once again. When it comes to the high prices of bikes, all anybody can ever come up with to justify the price, is research and developement. So, please tell me how much research and developement goes into a motorcycle of equivalent price and do you think it is more, or less, research than a piece of slapped together carbon fiber? Carbon fiber is carbon fiber. There is no more research to be done on that. It is strands of thin carbon drawn into threads. You can only weave it so many ways. Once cut into shape and laid out in the mold it gets baked. There is not much labour involved in prepping and filling a mold that gets baked. The sanding also does not take long. And for that little work they want to charge me 12.500 pounds? Which in the UK is a down payment for a house in certain areas.