It comes down to modern tyre technology and trends toward going wider in volume.
The reasons to walk away from front IsoSpeed are closely related to what was seen with the latest Checkpoint gravel bike. There’s no more IsoSpeed decoupler up front. Similar to the original introduced in 2012, this new and rear-only IsoSpeed isn’t adjustable and the only moving components are isolated to the pivot point that sits between the seat tube and top tube. This bike waves goodbye to both the adjustable rear IsoSpeed and front IsoSpeed and instead moves to Trek’s fourth iteration of the comfort-inducing feature. Meanwhile, the once ordinary front-end of the bike earned a de-coupled headset that allowed the fork steerer to flex more freely.Īll impressive features, but also things that made the Domane heavier than a bike of its price should be.Īnd so we come to the newest version of the Domane. For example, Trek took its original IsoSpeed concept from a simple flexible seat tube decoupled at the top tube via a bearing-based pivot and turned it into a system (at least at the high-end) that split the seat tube around a sliding mechanism that allowed you to tune the seated comfort. However, more recent years have seen the Domane get increasingly more complicated, and that complexity came with added mass. A subtly modified version was Fabian Cancellara’s pick for conquering the cobbles, and Trek surely sold a lot of bikes off that imagery. When it was first released a little over a decade ago, the Domane was a fully-fledged road bike, just with added ride comfort and more relaxed geometry. In many ways, the new Domane returns to the roots of the endurance road platform. In the meantime, here’s what we know about the newly updated endurance road platform that consists of the Domane SL, the top-tier Domane SLR, and the return of a pro-friendly Domane RSL. We have the new Domane SLR in hand for review but we need a little more time on it before we can offer an informed opinion. Now Trek has lifted the translucent curtain from the new bike, revealing all the finer details and model options. We saw the endurance-come-all-road bike earlier in the year at the Classics, and Elisa Longo Borghini even rode it to victory at Paris-Roubaix Femmes. Trek hasn’t exactly been shy about the fact a new Domane was imminent.
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