Jack Bobridge's Trek Madone Project One, made specifically for the Tour Down Under (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Jack Bobridge in his national champions jersey(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
The hashtag on the inside of the chain stay is a promotion for Trek’s Project One program (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
The Madone 9-series comes with its own XXX handlebar and stem combination(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Bobridge uses a 120mm length stem and 40cm width bar (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Front on, there’s no sign of cables or other wind collecting items (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
15. Still no cables or wires in sight. The new Madone is undoubtedly a super bike (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
The rear brake cable flows directly from the back of the seat tube (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
This is the bike Bobridge rode to his recent National Championship win (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Both new to the Trek-Segafredo team, Jack Bobridge and Ryder Hesjedal chat prior to the start of the 2016 Santos Tour Down Under (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
A long-length seat mast is used by Bobridge (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
A closer look reveals plenty of technical details on the new Madone (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
And here is Bobridge's 'other' bike, it's the same, but in last year's team paint(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Trek-Segafredo is sponsored by SRM. The SRM Shimano 11-speed crank is the official crank of the team(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Hiding within this deep aero tube is a second tube that pivots via Trek's 'IsoSpeed' comfort technology(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Jack Bobridge. Olympian and the current Australian National Road Champion(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
The new Trek-Segafredo team logo features on the top tube (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Integrated brakes offer an impressively sleek frontal profile(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Green and gold, perfectly fitting for an Australian National Champion(Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Each member of the Trek-Segafredo team at the Tour Down Under is riding a special Project-One bike in the colours of their respective country (Image credit: David Rome / Immediate Media)
Just 12 months ago, Australian Jack Bobridge was riding laps of a Melbourne velodrome attempting to take the world hour record. He fell just short (by an agonisingly close 550m) of the then record of 51.852km – not quite what the once U23 time-trial world champion was looking for.
Fast-forward to now, and the 26-year-old is once again proudly wearing the national colours on his fresh Trek-Segafredo team road jersey. The gold and green stripes come after an impressive 90km solo attack at the Australian National road championships from earlier in the month. Such a win is proof that Jack is very much back and now has his sights set on a return to the track for the Rio Olympics.
Team Trek-Segafredo's new signings Jack Bobridge and Ryder Hesjedal chat at the Tour Down Under
As a breakaway specialist, Bobridge is at the Tour Down Under on Trek’s recently released aero superbike – the Madone. More specifically, it’s the Madone Race Shop Limited with Project One paint.
Compared with the Madone 9.9 you may find in a store, the Race Shop Limited offers a lower ‘H1’ head tube and 700-series carbon. Additionally, it’s made in Trek’s own Waterloo, Wisconsin carbon factory.
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The new Madone is part of a new generation in ‘integrated’ bikes, where items such as the brakes, handlebar, stem and seat post are all designed from the ground up to best suit the machine.
The frame is a effectively a manual in aero design. Using deep Kammtail Virtual Foil (KVF) tube cross-sections, the frame now looks quite similar to the brand’s Speed Concept time-trial bike.
There are few bikes on the market with such refined integrated features
Tube shapes are on thing, but it’s the integrated features that really set it apart. Such examples are the Trek brake calipers designed to sit perfectly flush within the fork and rear of frame. Built around this, the head tube features fairings that open to allow space for the front brake as the handlebars are turned.
Perhaps the Madone's most truly singular feature is its ride comfort, which we can attest defies its aero look. Here, Trek has employed the ‘IsoSpeed’ technology from its endurance-based Domane bikes, something that isolates the seat tube from the top tube via a pivot point and promotes frame compliance while seated.
The handlebar and stem form a key part in the reduced frontal profile
Up front, the Madone XXX integrated handlebar and stem is certainly an item worth mentioning. It offers an incredibly minimal frontal profile, with the add-on SRM bracket perhaps being the largest part. The 120mm stem length and 40cm handlebar width combination is readily available to order.
All seven members of the Trek-Segafredo Tour Down Under team are on special Project One bikes
Showing off Trek’s Project One custom bike program, all members of the Trek-Segafredo team are riding nationally coloured bikes at the Tour Down Under. Coincidentally to Bobridge winning the national jersey, his TDU bike is covered in a flawless coat of yellow and green.
The rest of the bike is familiar from past Trek team bikes. Shimano’s Dura-Ace shifting is used with an SRM crank. Meanwhile the rolling stock comprises 50mm-deep Bontrager tubular wheels with VeloFlex tyres.
Rider's height: 1.8m (5ft 11in) Rider's weight: 65kg (143lb) Saddle height from BB, c-t: 752mm Saddle setback: 85mm Seat tube length (c-t): 525mm Tip of saddle to middle of bar: 615mm Saddle-to-bar drop: 100mm Head tube length: 140mm Top tube length (effective): 560mm Total bicycle weight: 7.21kg (15.90lb), without SRM Power Control 7 head unit
