Trek road bikes explained: Everything you need to know about the brand's road and gravel ranges

Trek Madone Gen 8
(Image credit: Trek)

Trek has a broad range of road bike offerings for road and all-road performance. Add to that a time trial and triathlon bike, plus a broad range of cyclocross and gravel models with the electric Domane+ to complete the range. Trek’s bikes perform well for a wide range of riders, in part thanks to the inclusion of their vibration-dampening IsoSpeed and new IsoFlow technology to bring comfort to otherwise stiffer carbon bikes. You can often find the brand in our roundups of the best road bikes, best gravel bikes, best ebikes, best aero bikes and more.

Its bikes are developed with sponsorship of the Lidl-Trek WorldTour Men’s and Women’s teams, the development U23 UCI team, the Baloise-Trek Lions and various privateers. These teams have won monuments and grand tours atop several different models of Trek bikes over the last decade or so in various guises. Trek also offers custom paint options on certain models with its Project One customisation tool to make your bike truly unique. 

Andy Turner
Freelance writer

Freelance cycling journalist Andy Turner is a fully qualified sports scientist, cycling coach at ATP Performance, and aerodynamics consultant at Venturi Dynamics. He also spent 3 years racing as a UCI Continental professional and held a British Cycling Elite Race Licence for 7 years. He now enjoys writing fitness and tech related articles, and putting cycling products through their paces for reviews. Predominantly road focussed, he is slowly venturing into the world of gravel too, as many ‘retired’ UCI riders do.

 

When it comes to cycling equipment, he looks for functionality, a little bit of bling, and ideally aero gains. Style and tradition are secondary, performance is key.

He has raced the Tour of Britain and Volta a Portugal, but nowadays spends his time on the other side of races in the convoy as a DS, coaching riders to race wins themselves, and limiting his riding to Strava hunting, big adventures, and café rides.

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