Trek wanted to honor fan-favorite and all-around hardman Jens Voigt with a graphic ode to his long and illustrious career. The top tube of his Madone 7 makes note that the most important statistic for the 40 year old racer is that there’s only one
The graphic reads:
Shut up legs!
805,000 km
3,100 kg of pasta consumed
110 stitches
100 crashes
64 wins
40 years
25 screws
16 times around the world
11 broken bones
1 Jens!
"I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn’t hurt my shoulder but I’m now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn’t hurting is my bad shoulder.”
Jens Voight
“Funny thing happened to me in today stage! A bee was sitting on my lip and I thought leave the bee in peace, she won’t sting you…,” he wrote.
“Wrong guess, she did, and then i decided to live up to my image and swallowed her and did chew every bit of honey out of that bee!!!” he continued.
Jens Voigt