Road Cycling - Madone or 5900 2005 on the Algarve tour??

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Oliver_gva
02-24-04, 06:00 AM
I just saw on the TV a summary of the Tour d'Algarve and Lance Armstrong was riding a new bike (not the TT bike)

It looks the bike was a mix between the Madone and the 5900.
The horizontal bar is like the Madone, but the vertical bar does not have the aero add-on (between the vertical bar and the rear wheel)

I took a picture of my TV screen and will post it (despite a bad quality) here tonight.

Has anyone heard/seen anything about that?

georgesnatcher
02-24-04, 08:17 AM
Lance being Lance gets and tests bike long before we see or hear of them. Sounds like this may be the story here. Seeing as how this would be a tune up race I can see Lance/Trek using it as a testbed.
Erik
02-24-04, 09:01 AM
I found this picture over at roadbikereview:

Oliver_gva
02-24-04, 09:22 AM
Well done for the picture, this is what I saw on the TV!

So...seems I was right!

Looks like a Madone without the aero add-on on the vertical bar!

So is this the Madone 2005 or the 5900 2005?

Regarding the name, I'll say that it has to be a climbing bike so this is the new Madone which, without the whole aero design should be lighter than the current one!

Thanks for the picture!
ShinyBaldy
02-24-04, 12:09 PM
I just saw on the TV a summary of the Tour d'Algarve and Lance Armstrong was riding a new bike (not the TT bike)

It looks the bike was a mix between the Madone and the 5900.
The horizontal bar is like the Madone, but the vertical bar does not have the aero add-on (between the vertical bar and the rear wheel)

I took a picture of my TV screen and will post it (despite a bad quality) here tonight.

Has anyone heard/seen anything about that?

A source I have talked with Trek about this. It isn't 2005 Madone or new 5900.

Trek uses lugs and glues frame together. It is easy and they just put together a Madone with 5900 seatube as an experiment for Lance. Nothing other than that. No plans for production yet.
Phatman
02-24-04, 12:48 PM
I had heard that the madone was a very rough-riding beast, perhaps they were trying to soften the ride a tad.
khuon
02-24-04, 01:48 PM
Out of curiosity, do you pronounce Madone as May-Done, May-Doon, May-Dun or Mad-One? Or something else?
Stochastix
02-24-04, 02:09 PM
It's french; you pronounce mad - oh - ne ...
Oliver_gva
03-15-04, 09:42 AM
Have a look at the following link:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/teamtech04.php?id=tech/2004/probikes/usps_trek

Seems the Madone 2005 is on it way!