Just in: Lance Armstrong's Radioshack Trek Madone 6 Series

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By Matthew Cole | Monday, May 17, 2010 9.00am

It’s not every day that BikeRadar’s resident freeride emo Oli Woodman gets excited about a road bike, so for Lance Armstrong’s 2010 replica Trek Madone to get his attention, it must be special.

Based on Trek’s ‘standard’ £5,800 (US$8,609.99) 6.9, the RadioShack paintjob costs an extra £1,537.99 ($1,679.98), and with component upgrades including a SRAM Red groupset plus Bontrager Race XXX Lite clincher wheels with Hutchinson Atom tyres, this finished work of art will set you back a cool £7,160 ($9,985).  

The carbon fibre machine is decked out with a smattering of top-end kit from in-house brand Bontrager, and has a nifty sensor integrated into the frame (£39.99 extra) which is compatible with bike computers that use ANT+ wireless technology and is able to measure speed, distance and cadence.

Sitting inside the tapered head tube is a round-to-oval fork steerer tube which, according to Trek, provides “15 percent more frontal compliance to smooth the road and 20 percent more lateral stiffness when cornering.” We'll see if this produces a more comfortable ride during testing.

Cycling Plus magazine will be reviewing the Lance Armstrong Radioshack Trek Madone 6 Series in issue 239, but for now, dribble over the pictures and let us know whether you’ll be putting in an order for one of these exclusive machines.

Internal cable routing for a sleek look :

Internally routed cables give a clean look, and also help to protect from contamination

View from the front:

Sitting inside the tapered head tube is a round-to-oval steerer tube

Bontrager's high-end components used throughout:

Bontrager Race XXX Lite carbon clincher wheels with carbon hubs

Integration of a computer sensor into the frame – able to measure speed, distance, and cadence, and compatible with bike computers that use ant+ wireless technology.: integration of a computer sensor into the frame – able to measure speed, distance, and cadence, and compatible with bike computers that use ant+ wireless technology.

The integrated sensor is compatible with bike computers that use ANT+ wireless technology

Bontrager's high-end components used throughout: bontrager's high-end components used throughout

High-end components from Trek in-house brand Bontrager are used throughout

SRAM red double crank: sram red double crank

Our test bike has a Sram RED double chainset

Livestrong graphics, naturally: livestrong graphics, naturally

The Lance replica bike is adorned with Livestrong graphics, naturally

Saddle: saddle

Topping things off is this Bontrager inForm RXL saddle

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  • They can keep it. I've not seen a less cohesive paint job for a while.

  • Its mingin .....

  • It might be a great bike with all the latest tech etc. but it looks really horrible. £1500 for the paint job! you could get a nice paint job for that price.

  • Never mind a nice paintjob for £1500 you could get a pretty decent bike as well.

  • Great bike fabulously precise downhills cornering stiff beyond belief for climbing and sprinting YET massively comfortable

    But the Saddle is a total nightmare, whether 18 or 80 years old is is a total nightmare

  • All the bits are nice, especially those hubs, but the paint absolutely kills it.

  • You just know that in two seasons max it will be out of date. I have never liked replica bikes, sponsors change and teams fold and you are left with a bike that is obsolete and an acquired taste to say the least.

  • Pah, who wants a knitted frame anyway? Good grief, it's too low at the front, couldn't possibly do a Sportive on that, needs at least another 50mm in the head tube. Carbon wheels with less than 36 spokes, they'll break first ride then. And as for ten speed chains, they'll break as well. Multi-coloured paint job, what rubbish, a nice black steel frame that's what you need with 5 gears.

    Cyclists :(

  • Trek is garbage. Bontrager is garbage. Anyone who has been riding since the 90's know that Trek is just one giant p.o.s.

    I smoke posers on Madone's everyday.

    Buy a Trek, waste your hard earned $$$.

  • That is a very ugly bike. It looks like a supermarket bargain BSO, almost as ugly as Pinarellos...

    Actually, now that I look at it agiain it is even more hideous that that – no mean feat!

  • man thats fugly...................!!

  • Considering that all you guys sound like D-grade hopefuls, I have decided that this bike rocks.

    It looks great, I want one.

  • Thelender is a poseur. Trek and Lance fanboy.

  • I got a Madone 6.9 Pro in Sept. 2009. It has been truly spectacular. Stiff, light (even in my 60 cm frame) and very, very fast. It just brings out my best performance. Trek does not necessarily make the lightest components. Just very light components that last. I am a 230 lb high power, gear pounder type rider. I fractured 2 Lemond steel Zurich frames. Trek replaced the first under warranty and for the second they gave me $1000.00 toward the new Madone. That is after 13 years with a $1375.00 bike. Truly outstanding! They offer an amazing variety of paint and component options on the Project 1 bikes that no other bike maker can match without having fully customized, low-production, pretty much hand-made bikes. Their paint quality is spectacular and the detail of the design and it's execution have to be seen to be truly appreciated. See the intro to the Trek Madone 6 series on this Website. Truly a spectacular ride.

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