Trek’s Emonda
10.2 lbs with a 190 lb rider weight limit
Today Trek Bicycle announced the Emonda
The world’s lightest production road line, which includes the 10.25lb/4.65kg Émonda SLR 10, the lightest production road bike ever. Originating from the french verb émonder meaning “to prune or trim away”, the three-year Émonda project began with the most stringent frame tube optimization ever. Carbon frames are often designed as much for aesthetics as for function, but Émonda focused solely on making sure every strand of carbon served a purpose. Form followed function, beautifully, and the result is svelte, elegant, minimalist perfection. Every detail of the Émonda line, from frame design to each component choice on every model, serves the same audacious goal: to produce the lightest line of production road bikes ever offered.
Bar and Stem Combo
Interestingly and to their credit, Trek Bicycle has gotten closer to what I called for in a Medium post last year after the Hydro recall, when I asked for a company to develop a complete bike. Looks like, except for the drivetrain, that’s all their in-house spec.
The idea was; we have the resources to build a complete bike system. Let’s use that advantage to look at every aspect of the bicycle and how each component interacts with all the others,” said Trek Road Product Manager Ben Coates. “Once we covered the basic bike functions, we focused on every minute detail. Every decision was based on what was the overall lightest option for the system.”
Built-in power meter magnets
While superlight bikes aren’t our thing, as I wrote about this morning in another Medium post, what this bike does too is resolve Trek’s OCLV weight image and give them a superbike to market at $16K.