Trek Bike Names are Anagrams of each other

ai_1

I see Trek are releasing a new bike called the Emonda and just spotted that they've used the same 6 letters in the name of 3 different road bikes now. Madone, Domane and Emonda are all anagrams of each other. Is this an in joke of some sort or just a whimsy? It's hardly coincidental!

w00dster

Yeah had noticed that with the Madone and Domane. I presumed the Madone bike is named after LA used to ride the Col De La Madone as part of his training for the Tour. The Domane being slightly French sounding was an anagram of that. Is LA still a big part of Trek?
The Emonda has piqued my interested though, even started dropping hints to the missus at breakfast this morning. Hoping my local Trek store has some in as will be popping in soon. They had the Silque instock on release day so fingers crossed they will have the Emonda. The SL8 Red weighing in at 6.83kgs, I could easily get that down to close to 6.5kgs....So tempting!

imposter2.0

Looking forward to their next model - the 'Moaned'....

dodgy

Moaned

imposter2.0

dodgy wrote:

Moaned

gah - I wish I had said that. Oh, hang on....

dodgy

Imposter wrote:

dodgy wrote:

Moaned

gah - I wish I had said that. Oh, hang on....

You were on my blocklist for some reason, no idea why. Now unblocked, you seem like a nice chap

opus25

When it comes in at 4.65kg :shock: they could call it anything - it's a demon.

Wait... A + demon = :oops:

Coat got.

ai_1

opus25 wrote:

When it comes in at 4.65kg :shock: they could call it anything - it's a demon.

Wait... A + demon = :oops:

Coat got.

Well done!

"Demona" sounds like a women specific bike

cougie

I'm sure this was pointed out when the Domane range came out.

Maybe they bought a job load of letters ?

The brakes on the new ultralight bike are fugly anyhoo.

MountainMonster

I wish my wife was Demona.

I saw on Facebook earlier that Primo Cycles in Cambridge has one of the bikes in stock at the moment for display. Maybe that's local, maybe it's not?

lawrences

Next one will be a tourer called the Nomade

t4tomo

They are also releasing an extreme race bike, named the Trek Mad One.

and one inspired by sexually confused rabbits the Trek Man Doe

MountainMonster

madasahattersley wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

I wish my wife was Demona.

I saw on Facebook earlier that Primo Cycles in Cambridge has one of the bikes in stock at the moment for display. Maybe that's local, maybe it's not?

Only the cheaper models though, Ultegra downwards. Wait a while for the jaw dropping/Sram Red model

Fair enough, I need to make it in to check the bike out, and I also need to price up a groupset for converting my SS into gears again.

RDW

Ai_1 wrote:

opus25 wrote:

When it comes in at 4.65kg :shock: they could call it anything - it's a demon.

Wait... A + demon = :oops:

Coat got.

Well done!

"Demona" sounds like a women specific bike

The dark magicians at Trek are clearly old school. 13 levels beneath the factory floor in Wisconsin, behind an ebony door bearing the forbidden sigil of Livestrong, lurks the original prototype, its night-black carbon frame rendered from the charred bones of unwary Specialized executives. In the flickering torchlight dimly reflected from the tortured steel of the scaffold that serves as its grotesque workstand, the blood-painted model name can just be made out - the Trek Daemon...

ddraver

I don't want to be mean but...seriously?...you ve just noticed that?

MisterMuncher

There's a commuter coming. The Mondae.

ai_1

ddraver wrote:

I don't want to be mean but...seriously?...you ve just noticed that?

You don't want to be mean? .....Clearly you do.
But I wouldn't call it mean....there are other words.

Seriously? - No... Does this look like a serious topic to you?
As for the ridicule; given I'd never heard of the Emonda until yesterday, I'm not sure I could have spotted it sooner. Two's not really a pattern. 3 is.
Never claimed to be telling anyone something new and couldn't care less what you think to be quite frank.

ManOfKent

Ai_1 wrote:

As for the ridicule; given I'd never heard of the Emonda until yesterday, I'm not sure I could have spotted it sooner. Two's not really a pattern. 3 is.
Never claimed to be telling anyone something new and couldn't care less what you think to be quite frank.

In your defence, and to make myself look dense, I'd never considered the possibility that Domane and Madone were deliberate anagrams of each other, either.

And when I saw the announcements about the new bike (on the Pros Selling Stuff thread of Pro Race) my first thought wasn't "anagram" (clever or otherwise) it was "what a stupid name". That view persists, incidentally.

There must be a joke somewhere about No Edam but I'm not smart enough to think it up.

philbar72

They have yet to copyright the “mediocre” or “overpriced pile of crap” as bike names. They would be more apt.

lawrences

The "Ad Money" will probably be out next.

speedo

Another configuration "DAEMON "

chris_bass

ManOfKent wrote:

There must be a joke somewhere about No Edam but I'm not smart enough to think it up.

It would be a bit of a cheesy joke anyway

lawrences

I'd like to think there's a Trek employee reading this absolutely chuffed that we're doing his job for him.

Elfed

Ai_1 wrote:

ddraver wrote:

I don't want to be mean but...seriously?...you ve just noticed that?

You don't want to be mean? .....Clearly you do.
But I wouldn't call it mean....there are other words.

Seriously? - No... Does this look like a serious topic to you?
As for the ridicule; given I'd never heard of the Emonda until yesterday, I'm not sure I could have spotted it sooner. Two's not really a pattern. 3 is.
Never claimed to be telling anyone something new and couldn't care less what you think to be quite frank.

Nice comback, totally pwned!!

ddraver

I was mischievously wondering with someone on twitter that if you put the logo next to an appropriate bit of paint that it could look like Lemond(e)...which would be interesting given the history...