2016 Madone Assembly Manual
2016 MADONE ASSEMBLY MANUAL 2016 MADONE 2016 MADONE And with that understated note, after more than three And with that understated note, after more than three years and tens of thousands of hours of development, years and tens of thousands of hours of development, the final Madone Madone prototype prototype was was approved. approved. The 2016 Madone development project was the most ambitious we have ever undertaken. Our self-imposed directive: throw convention to the wind (literally) and redefine aero aero road road bike bike performance. performance. Along the way, we completely reinvented the way Along the way, we completely reinvented the way CFD (computational fluid dynamics) can optimize CFD (computational fluid dynamics) can optimize bicycle aerodynamics, using cloud-based cluster RB bicyclecomputing, aerodynamics, the most advanced using cloud-based commercial cluster CFD computing,software, and the rigorous most advanced wind tunnel commercial correlation. CFD We FD software,optimized and every rigorous millimeter, wind every tunnel component, correlation. every We RD FB optimizeddetail of the every bike, millimeter, even water every bottle component, placement. every detail of the bike, even water bottle placement. Our job didn’t end with aerodynamics. We’d set our Oursights job much didn’t higher: end with an aeroaerodynamics. bike with exceptional We’d set our ride quality. We adapted our groundbreaking IsoSpeed sights much higher: an aero bike with exceptional ride system to this new aero platform with an innovative quality.
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