There are few tech days more frenetic than the first day of the Critérium du Dauphiné. Last year we saw two new bikes, which made for quite a busy day. This time around we’ve seen four – a new Canyon Aeroad, a new Pinarello Dogma F, a new Wilier all-rounder, and a new Trek Madone/Emonda.
The last on this list didn’t take long to rack up its first victory of the season under former world champion Mads Pedersen.
In his post race press conference he remained tight lipped, with a firm “No comment” to my inquisitions, but I was fortunate enough to spend five minutes with the bike at the finish line while Pedersen fulfilled his post race duties and went up to the podium to collect a technicolour array of jerseys.
We can glean a lot from the pictures, though the deliberately obfuscative label on the top tube, which is both ‘Madone’ and ‘Emonda’ overlaid atop one other, gives us no further clue as to what this bike is.
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