The Most Expensive Racing Bike

The Trek Madone SSLx is the most expensive off the shelf racing bike you can buy. To make the new Trek bike stiffer it usually requires more, not less, frame material. So, the task at hand was how to build a bike that was lighter and stiffer at the same time. The answer was in extending the OCLV Carbon family to include a new member -- OCLV Boron. By adding the OCLV Boron composite, the result was a 15% increase in frame stiffness. Because each Madone frame is built using hand-laid strips of OCLV Carbon, it's a relatively easy process for the frame builders to strategically add directional strips of Boron at the bottom bracket.