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The new Aeolus RSL 65X wheels are on a bike in the shop. This is a Project One Madone in the 2026 Lidl-Trek team colours, with SRAM Red and Pirelli P Zero Race RS tyres. The 65mm front rim and 58mm rear rim look as good in person as
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The RSL 65X is Trek's top carbon road wheelset, built for speed, low weight and stability in one wheel. Here is what it is and what's in the box. What it is The "X" in the name means the front rim is deeper than
The new Domane SLR 7 has arrived, and we have it on the floor. 165mm cranks, standard on Medium. Trek now specs shorter cranks across the size range: 160mm on XS–S, 165mm on M–ML, and 170mm on L–XL. A shorter crank opens up the hip angle and
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Over the Chuseok holiday, from September 25 to 28, six of us rode Korea's cross-country bike path from Incheon to Busan. We were supposed to be seven. One of us couldn't make it in the end, so six lined up at the Ara West Sea
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Shimano has replaced its whole Dura-Ace wheel range. The new series is called WH-R9370, and the C50 is on the display stand in the shop now. This is the first Dura-Ace wheel update in five years, and it is a bigger change than the model number suggests.
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Trek Korea's Trek Fest started today, September 11, and Platoon Cycles is in it. Until October 18, buying one of the models on the list gets you an accessory voucher to spend at the shop. The bike price doesn't change. The voucher does, by model: from
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On September 25 a small group leaves Incheon for Busan on the cross-country cycling road, four days on the bike. One of them rides a 2025 Trek Domane SLR 7 Gen 4: Bontrager Aeolus Pro 37 carbon wheels, 32c road tires, Shimano 105 Di2. It's a good
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We made a shop T-shirt. It is a shop shirt, with the logo on it, and we are happy if people wear it for that. But when we chose the design, we were thinking about the people who ride Incheon to Busan. You come back with a stamped passport,
We ran this comparison in July. Four weeks later, the answer is different enough that it is worth running again. In July, the won was at ₩1,480 to the dollar and the matched models we checked were 16–32% cheaper in Korea. Today the won sits around ₩1,380,
All Day. All Road. The fifth-generation Domane is here, and it's in the showroom now. Trek's line for this bike is "All Day. All Road." That's the whole idea in four words: a road bike you can stay on when the
If you ride, you have probably had the thought at some point. It would be good to spend a day riding around a town you do not know. Doing that properly usually turns into a project. The cross-country route is a fine thing and worth doing, but it wants
Nine in the morning. Seven in the evening. The same stretch of river path, five days a week. The footage is mixed together. Different mornings, different evenings, all from July, all on the same road at the same two hours. Nothing in it was planned. I wasn't riding
On August 3, Trek Bicycle Korea gave us the Mono Brand Excellence Award at the 2026 Best Dealer Awards. Being a mono-brand Trek store isn't only about the sign out front. It means the diagnostic tools, the service training, and the parts pipeline all come from one
The new Trek Domane arrived at the shop this week. It's built up, it's on the floor, and you can look at it right now. What we can't do is put it on the internet. There's an embargo in place until August
Trek's fifth-generation Domane arrives with six sizes instead of eight, labeled XS through XL instead of 47 through 62. The easy read is that Trek trimmed the lineup. That's part of it. But put the two geometry charts side by side and something more specific
Every few months we run the same check: what does a Trek actually cost in Korea compared to the US? This month we pulled current list prices for the same models and trims in both markets and converted them at the mid-July exchange rate ($1 = ₩1,480). Then we
The cross-country bicycle route (국토종주) runs about 600 km from the west coast at Incheon to Busan on the south coast, almost entirely on dedicated bike paths. This page is our working reference for the route: measured distances, certification centers, and GPX files you can load onto your bike
A new Trek Domane appears to be on the way. Trek hasn't announced anything officially, but a blacked-out bike that doesn't match any current model was spotted under Lidl-Trek riders in the team's Roubaix footage, and the usual rumors point to a
There's a completely new generation of the Trek Domane arriving — Gen 5 — and it will be revealed on August 4. Until then, we can't show you the bike — no photos, no spec sheet, no published pricing. Trek keeps new models under embargo until reveal day, and
Trek has refreshed the entire Project One paint lineup for 2027, and it launched on July 10. To go with it, there's a short launch promotion: Project One framesets ordered between July 10 and July 26 get ₩500,000 off — and if you upgrade to a custom color,
