Popo's new Trek Madone 6.9 SSL has the Madone's one-piece top tube / head tube design for a stiffer head tube in a non-integrated configuration for improved handling.(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
Clean lines of Madone 6.9 SSL made in scary sounding Defense Grade High Modulus Carbon fibre and covered with special lightweight paint.(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
Popo's eye view of Madone 6.9 SSL cockpit(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
No, it's not a bottle mount. The Trek Madone 6.9 SSL frame has a single "Nutsert" on the down tube, designed to accept various screw-in lead weights that the Discovery Channel team mechanics can add if necessary to increase the weight of the bike to pass the UCI weight limit of 6.8kg.(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
Alejandro Valverde's Caisse d'Epargne-Iles Balears Pinarello Paris Carbon FP(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
Unique wave shaped ribs in the top tube are claimed to increase ridigity (and therefore 'sensation' maybe...) The black band on seat tube is for race number attachment.(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
The back end(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
Selle Italia made this special saddle for Alesandro Valverde - "Vas como una Balaverde"(Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
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