Launched last year and claiming to be the world's lightest production bike at the time, the Émonda is a proper race machine built to weigh as little as is humanly possible.
While the Madone has some aero features and the Domane places an emphasis on comfort, the Émonda is a is single-minded design for the weight-conscious rider.
- Highs: Incredible weight; sensible spec with no real weak links
- Lows: Firm ride quality won’t suit all; 23mm tyres as standard
- Buy if: You’ve got climbs to conquer and smooth roads to ride
We'd be remiss if we didn't discuss the name. The keen-eyed will have noticed that "Émonda" is an anagram of both Madone and Domane. It's also claimed, rather neatly, to be drawn from the French verb émonder, meaning "to trim down", or prune – certainly appropriate for a design focused on extreme weight savings. We do wonder how long Trek can keep this up, is there perhaps a Daemon on the cards? (The US company would neither confirm nor deny.)
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The SLR 6 gets the same chassis that's at the heart of the bonkers 4.5kg SLR 10 superbike. It uses Trek's 700 Series carbon, while the cheaper SL and S version use lower grades, and the newly-launched ALR is alloy. The SLR's frame weighs a claimed 690g in size 56, and given that our 52cm test bike came in at just 6.5kg with Bontrager alloy clinchers, an alloy cockpit and a Shimano Ultegra groupset, we can believe that.
That’s not to say there’s anything seriously lacking in the equipment department. Said wheels have a useful 23mm wide rim section and are tubeless-ready to boot, while the Ultegra shifting kit is as flawless as ever and the funky Bontrager brakes perform well.
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