Gallery: Inside Trek’s Race Department – Massive Photo Gallery - BikeRadar

Inside Trek’s race department – Massive photo gallery

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  Sights like this – racked RadioShack-Nissan-Trek Speed Concepts – are common in Trek’s Race Shop

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  The Race Shop has quite the pedigree

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  There are plenty of mementos kicking around

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  The Race Shop’s road and triathlon engineer, Mark Andrews, digging through the Madone drawer

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  All kinds of well organized small parts; this is the Madone shelf

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  Custom stainless steel Madone derailleur hangers, which are used to fix damaged dropouts or to bump up shift response – Andrews says they’re way stiffer

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  Boxes and boxes of small parts on mountain bike engineer Ray Waxham’s side

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  Carbide-bladed chop saw for carbon steerer tubes

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  The Race Shop has a Bridgeport press

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  It also has a lathe

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  The workshop has four work areas for building bikes

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  Trek are changing the Madone 6.9SSL’s front derailleur braze-on from alloy to carbon, and the workshop has plenty on hand for retrofits

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  The Schlecks’ custom horizontal Madone dropouts

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  Stainless Madone rear derailleur hanger

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  One of Waxham’s custom projects: can you tell what it is?

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  It’s a milled Delrin belt-drive cog

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  Sometimes they need a little extra motivation here in the Race Shop; espresso shots on the work bench

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  Many of the team bikes get vinyl cut decals, but TWR are running ahead of schedule this year and get fancy wet-transfer decals

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  The Race Shop has a cataloge of custom decals; these are some of Cancellara’s from 2011

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  These decals were made for a prototype aero downhill wheelset

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  One of the Race Shop’s prototype aero downhill wheels

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  Standard Bontrager Big Earl hubs

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  The Big Earl rims were capped with carbon down the road at HED

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  New 2012 Subaru-Trek decals

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  Emily Batty’s decal kit

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  When BikeRadar visited the Race Shop, Subaru-Trek’s bikes were being packed for the first World Cup in South Africa

  © Matt Pacocha

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  Racked RadioShack-Nissan-Trek Speed Concept time trial bikes

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  Slick colour scheme for the new team Speed Concept rigs

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  Each one will be hand finished, packed and air shipped to the team’s service course

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  Looking down the barrel of fast

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  The team name takes up a lot of real estate this year

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  Quite a range: Europe-bound time trial bikes on one side, carbon downhill rigs and alloy dirt jumpers on the other

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  The TT bikes sport the UCI’s new compliance sticker

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  TWR’s Session 9.9 carbon downhiller

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  Frames are hand assembled in the Race Shop

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  2010 U23 world champion Matthias Fluckinger had a back-up bike stashed in the Race Shop for 2011; when the shop do a special bike they generally do an extra or two, so they’re ready if something happens to the first

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  Roughly half of the TWR team’s 2012 Shimano order

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  TWR will be on Bontrager’s new G4 tire

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  Subaru-Trek Superfly waiting for a box

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  Subaru-Trek’s South Africa shipment

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  Subaru-Trek rider Emily Batty will be on a Superfly in South Africa

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  Ray Waxham’s custom singlespeed project bike

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  The front brake is grip actuated

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  The grip rotates forward to pull the brake cable

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  The hub is a Sturmey-Archer coaster brake model

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  Recognize that clamp? Yep, SRAM’s matchmaker brake lever clamp

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  Andrews’ mini Trek OCLV 9.9 hardtail; a young Travis Brown approves of the color

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  Andrews built this mini carbon hardtail for his daughters, who've since outgrown it; those cranks are carbon and just 145mm long

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  24in wheeled TTX anyone?

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  Race Shop engineer Vance McCaw’s Session downhill bike

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  Behind closed doors: Trek's Race Shop

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