Jarlinson Pantano's Trek Madone 9 Race Shop Limited is pretty much the same as last year(Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
With so many candy apple red bikes, name tags are mandatory(Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano's number plate holder is integrated with the rear cable guide (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Trek-Segafredo is supported by People For Bikes (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano was running Trek's Bat bottle cage. It's plastic and simple, but also known for holding bottles tight (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano's bike features the Madone XXX Integrated Bar/Stem combo with the tops left bare of bartape (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
The cables and wires are hidden in the bars and run through the stem and on into the frame (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Gotta keep those sponsors happy (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano was rolling on Bontrager Aeolus 5 tubulars (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
While Pantano is known for being a climber, the rough roads around Adelaide, and the Madone's ISO Speed Decoupler, likey influenced his bike choice (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano's seatmast cap is nearly as high as it will go (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Housed inside the aero seatpost is a round tube designed to flex in conjunction with the ISO Speed Decoupler (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
In order to hide the front brake cable, Trek created spring loaded wings that sit at the bottom of the head tube (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
The Aeolus 5s spin around carbon hubs (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano was riding gumwall 25c Velofelx Roubaix tubs(Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Trek-Segafredo is sponsored by SRM, and Pantano was using a SRM Dura-Ace 9000 crankset and 53-39T chainrings (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Like the majority of the teams at the Tour Down Under, Trek-Segafredo was running the older Dura-Ace 9070 Di2 (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
The Madone Race Shop Limited frames receive Trek's more aggressive H1 geometry(Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano's saddle of choice was the Bontrager Padigram RXL (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
It seems he likes his saddle pushed quite far back (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
The Madone 9 series frames hide the Di2 junction box in the down tube(Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Trek made its own integrated aero brakes for the Madone 9 Series frame that allowed the cables to be almost completely hidden (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
The only exposed section of the brake cable pops out of the back of the seat tube(Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Pantano is using a red anodised PC8 unit (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
Hidden inside the chainstay is a DuoTrap sensor (Image credit: Colin Levitch / Immediate Media)
With stage wins at the Tour de France, Tour de Suisse and a late call-up to the Colombian Olympic team for Rio, Jarlinson Pantano had a big year in 2016. For 2017 he's riding for a new squad, Trek-Segafredo, and possibly working for Trek's other new signing Alberto Contador at the Tour de France this year.
For the start of 2017, Trek-Segafredo is riding the same cherry red frames as last year, though a new partnership with Sportful meant the riders debuted some fresh threads at the Santos Tour Down Under. Riding a size 56 frame, Pantano opted for the aero-focused Madone over the lighter Emonda, though this may be because of the ISOSpeed Decoupler and the rough roads surrounding Adelaide.
This technology, which is also seen on Trek's Endurance oriented Domane, is a mechanical pivot at the top-tube seat tube junction that allows it to flex and absorb road vibrations coming up through the rear end. Because aero tubing is not prone to flex, the Madone sees a tube-in-tube design — basically there’s a round tube inside the aero seat tube. The inner round tube provides better vertical compliance without sacrificing the overall rigidity of the frame.
Riding the older Dura-Ace 9070 Di2 groupset, the Colombian was running a SRM power meter with 170mm cranks and 53-39t chainrings. Completing the transmission was a Dura-Ace 11-28t cassette at the back.
Pantano's bike features the Madone XXX Integrated Bar/Stem combo with the tops left bare of bartape
Since it was updated last year, the new Madone is all about integration, featuring its own proprietary carbon fibre one-piece bar and stem, which allow the brake cables and Di2 wires to be completely hidden, only popping out of the frame at their destination. Pantano's Madone also features an integrated seatmast that is topped by a carbon railed Bontrager Paradigm RXL saddle with plenty of setback.
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Pantano’s wheel of choice was Bontrager’s Aeolus 5, which was packaged in gumwall 25c Veloflex Roubaix tubulars.
Rider's height: 1.73m / 5ft 7in Rider's weight: 61kg / 134lbs Saddle height from bottom bracket: 720mm Centre of saddle to centre of bar: 660mm Total bicycle weight: 7.16kg / 15.8lbs
