NEW new Madone 2025

[TobinHatesYou]

Can I remove that tubeless rim tape? I'm using tpu and pirelli race tube version tires.

You need some kind of rim tape to use inner tubes and "tubeless tape" is just about the lightest option there is aside from those rim plugs, which probably don't work well with TPU.

[Campervan]

Coming at 8kg, including assioma duo pedals, bottles, cages, innertubes, rear tyre is a 30mm, 11/34 52/36, rsl 51's, rsl saddle, garmin mount.
So with the pedals/garmin mount, cages, bottles its about 7.5kg.

[twoangstroms]

Looking forward to a ride report!

[cleanneon98]

Coming at 8kg, including assioma duo pedals, bottles, cages, innertubes, rear tyre is a 30mm, 11/34 52/36, rsl 51's, rsl saddle, garmin mount.
So with the pedals/garmin mount, cages, bottles its about 7.5kg.

My favorite color, what size? Your scale may be reading a bit high cause my Gen 7 with same pedals, tires, mounts and cages (no bottles) was also 8.000kg in what looks to be 2 sizes bigger. I'd think yours is lighter than it says

[Campervan]

Coming at 8kg, including assioma duo pedals, bottles, cages, innertubes, rear tyre is a 30mm, 11/34 52/36, rsl 51's, rsl saddle, garmin mount.
So with the pedals/garmin mount, cages, bottles its about 7.5kg.

My favorite color, what size? Your scale may be reading a bit high cause my Gen 7 with same pedals, tires, mounts and cages (no bottles) was also 8.000kg in what looks to be 2 sizes bigger. I'd think yours is lighter than it says

It might be. I used a cheap luggage scale. It's a medium.
I'm going to swap to tpu tubes which will drop a bit too.

[Campervan]

Looking forward to a ride report!

I gave it a quick ride the other day. It's comfy. It's quick...is it quicker than my 2019 venge, I'm not sure about that on a flat road. It certainly seems to want to climb faster. It seems to want you to put the power down.

[Campervan]

Has anybody noticed how far back the rsl handlebar drops go back? They seem to come along way back.

[twoangstroms]

Does anyone have personal experience and/or recommendations for replacement decals? Specifically, I'd like to get something more matte to replace or cover the shiny gold downtube logo. The most promising set I've seen requires removing the existing logo decal, which I'm not sure is possible and also reluctant to attempt.

[cleanneon98]

Does anyone have personal experience and/or recommendations for replacement decals? Specifically, I'd like to get something more matte to replace or cover the shiny gold downtube logo. The most promising set I've seen requires removing the existing logo decal, which I'm not sure is possible and also reluctant to attempt.

Not for this bike but I have bought vinyl decal sets on eBay for a pair of Bontrager Aeolus wheels in the past. The sizing was perfect and covered up the ghosted shadows left by the original stickers perfectly (because the sun didn't fade the finish behind the old stickers).

Why would they require removal and not just go over top of the existing ones? Unless they are just a smidge undersized

[twoangstroms]

Maybe it's a language or wording issue? They say it's important to remove existing "stickers" rather than place these over. https://bikedecalreplace.com/products/t ... -decal-set

[twoangstroms]

This (https://www.cycledecal.com/product/fram ... yl-decals/) also says not to cover any other decal?

[cerro]

Madone SLR, size Small
6,84kg with cages, pedals and wahoo mount

Hollowgram crank? How did you fit that, long spindle?

[ingenieur]

Hollowgram crank? How did you fit that, long spindle?

Yes, it is a SISL2 crank. It is a 125mm spindle and it works perfectly..

[cleanneon98]

Maybe it's a language or wording issue? They say it's important to remove existing "stickers" rather than place these over. https://bikedecalreplace.com/products/t ... -decal-set

Yeah as suspected it's probably because they can't guarantee the dimensions will match so if their vinyl is just a half mm small one way or another it's going to not fully cover it, or if the letters are not fully aligned on the sheet when they cut it.

If it were me, I'd take a gamble on them but cut the sheet and apply one letter at a time to ensure I got the alignment perfect and didn't have the old logo peeking out. There IS still a chance that you'll get some poking through if one of their letters is not exactly the right size. If you apply the entire logo at once and align your T the chances of something being off by the time you get to K are a lot higher. Hope that makes sense

[twoangstroms]

Thanks!