Chader09 wrote:Trek is playing catch up...
I don't see this. The Madone was an excellent balance of aerodynamics and low weight: they anticipated with the saturation of gains to be made in lightness that dedicating some bandwidth to aerodynamics made sense, and it did. But they they retreated to the Emonda, yet another fat-tube-bike, which saves less than 40 grams on the top-end model (not counting seat tube/cap comparisons), and which is downright heavy on anything lower than the top-end model. So in a sense, they've gone from a bike which had demonstrable advantages in the wind tunnel (Madone) to one against which is just one-of-many fatties.
The Domane, on the other hand, remains at top of class in the "vertical compliance" crowd. The pivot thingy really does work. It's another fatty, so aerodynamics likely suffers, but it accomplishes its goal, and in the Cancellara geometry it would be a very tempting racing option here in NorCal where the road quality is generally poor. I think they scored big on that bike.