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The talent in the back room here at Trek rocks. No, its is not for sale and no it will not be offered in Project One. It was built long before Lance announced his comeback so it has DA instead of Red. We painted it up like this because Lance spends enough time in NYC to ride so why not have a Big Apple themed bike?
Travis Brown raced a prototype belt drive cyclocross bike at the Vegas Cross race at Interbike on Wednesday night. The bike has unique tension adjusters built into the dropouts. Travis was equipped with a few "cog" options so he could make a final gearing selection at the race once he saw the course. The bike was built off a standard XO2 platform and had the rear dropouts and chainstays replaced to accommodate the belt. The chainstays are off a Trek T900 tandem; their heavier gauge minimizes lateral flex and compression loads that could make the belt skip.
Trek's Advanced Concept Group has been tinkering with how belt drive bikes can fit into the line. Right now belts are on a few commuter models (including the District) and some other prototypes running around the office but watch for them on more and more bikes in the future.
Lance is Back!!! and it seems that he is already in winning form. Since Lance announced his comeback he has gone two for two. Mind you both of the races have been on Dirt but in his words a "win is a win." I wish I had some great insight for you here on how this is all going to pan out but as of right now, you probably know as much as I do. Lance will be making a big announcement on the 24th of September, we are just going to have to stay tuned......It is going to be a fun year!
Levi Leipheimer felt the weight of a Major Tour's Leader's Jersey for the first time after a spectacular Time Trial at the Vuelta. I rode in the car behind Levi and with 10k to go he was behind by 40 seconds, he turned on the afterburners and brought home a victory. It was absolutely amazing to see how fast he was going for last 10k. After the race he was absolutely ecstatic. Could it be his time to win the overall at a Major Tour?
2009 Trek models have been hung on the trekbikes.com site. Check out all the new colors and some new spec by roaming around the site. www.trekbikes.com
New to the Madone line is a Madone 6.9 spec’d with SRAM Red. There’s also a 5.2 in the WSD line now.
Pay special attention to the new compare tool in the upper right hand side of the bikes pages. The tool will give you a side by side look at models under the Road heading. Prices, reviews and spec are all laid out next to one another for easy comparison.
Project One will link off the bike pages when it goes live on September 16th.
