Regarding that one fender mount behind the BB, yes, a lot of it is from the same mold as the Domane after all, but the layup is different...
The newest Classics version (Pro-Endurance Geometry) that you could actually buy through Project One has fender mounts all around the whole thing. I guess Degenkolb doesn't want to get dirty during Roubaix.
The above photos were taken from Above Category's website where they spent some time with the new Pro-Endurance Domane last year. I'm not sure if they thought they were on Koppenberg geometry or not, but they got such a key point so wrong, that the writeup lost credibility for me and I just looked at the pics...
Here's what they wrote, which couldn't be more incorrect...
"Can the quick steering be nervous? Of course. It takes a bit more care and attention than a more staid, slower-handling Grand Tour bike, like its siblings the Emonda and Madone, or any litany of production bikes..." Whoa, I immediately thought... They're really confused here. The newest Pro-Endurance geometry (which they seemed to be testing and talking about), is not even comparable to the Emonda or Madone, or Koppenberg for that matter, at least not in the way they are describing. Those last three bikes all share essentially the same geometry, and they are all much quicker, not slower handling, than the Domane they were talking about. I think they may have gotten confused by looking at the front end of the bike only, which does have a quicker geo than the standard Domane, but it is also coupled to a much longer wheelbase, lower BB, and longer chainstays. For example, compared to my Koppenberg, the same size Pro-Edurance geometry has a whopping 4cm (3.9cm to be exact) longer wheelbase than the Koppenberg. It is by no means an overall quicker handling bike than the Emonda, Madone, or Koppenberg. I just went back to that article to see if it is still there as I remember it and sure enough, it is... I just copied it and quoted it above.
https://abovecategorycycling.com/journa ... anereview/
Anyway, it's not like they were the first reviewers to be confused by this bike. Way back in 2012 I think, reviews talking about Cancellara riding the Domane, not just in the Classics, but in the Grand Tours, were saying stuff like "he prefers the relaxed geometry of the Domane... " blah blah, when in fact he was on nothing of the sort in the Grand Tours. It shared some Domane traits, but the geometry was not relaxed. I think it all got sorted out in the end, then everyone realized this was a very unique "Domane", and it was offered to the public in a very limited way as I've described earlier as the "Koppenberg".
Cancellara has said that it's the best bike he's ever ridden. Coming from a sponsored rider, of course you have to take that with a grain of salt, but in this case I'm more inclined to believe it because 1) He was very involved in its development from the beginning, as opposed to the sponsor just handing him their bike and saying "here's what we got, ride it" and don't talk any smack about it"; and 2) I have actually ridden it to confirm a lot of what I expected it might be like to ride; and 3) If it wasn't for Cancellara, I'm not sure they would have gone to the expense of creating the Koppenberg, so Domane like, yet at the same time so Emonda like, to be ridden in the Grand Tours yet not really marketed in a big way as it's own special thing. They could have just said "No, the Madone is our bike for the Tours at the moment, ride it please". I would love to know the conversations that led to the actual production of the Koppenberg.
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