Trek-Segafredo Team Emonda Disc
This is Kiel Reijnen’s team issue Trek Emonda for the 2018 racing season.
Kiel is utilized by the team as a lead out guy and a second-string sprinter for the spring classics. Throughout the season you’ll see him working the front of the race, managing the time gaps to the early breakaways and pulling the team leader through the peloton. All of those jobs suggest that he’ll spend most of the racing season on his Madone aero bike or the team issue Domane for races that feature cobblestones and/or miles of gravel.
So why would a rider like Kiel need a superlight bike that is designed for climbers and more mountainous races? Good question.
Two reasons.
First, Kiel happens to be a sprinter who can climb pretty well, so he gets thrown into a lot of hilly stage races (Tour de Suisse, Volta Cataluña, Tour of Spain) with the hope that he’ll survive the big climbs to fight out a sprint finish.
Second, the UCI imposes a strict minimum weight limit for racing bikes. This Emonda can be equipped with disc brakes and power meters and still slide in right at the legal limit. Riding this bike gives Kiel better control on descents than on his Madone (the aerodynamic brakes on that bike work like hell), and Trek gets the pro team advertising that they really want. Most of the road bikes that Trek sells these days have disc brakes on them, so it’s important for the budding bike racer to be able to identify with the pros and ride a similar bike.