There are plenty of rumours swirling around the bike industry about an upcoming update to SRAM's top-of-the-line Red AXS groupset. There have been patent filings, early prototype testing and leaked images, but one thing that's missing is the groupset being spotted in the wild beneath one of SRAM's sponsored teams.
But today that changes, as Lidl-Trek's Simone Consonni was photographed by Getty Images photographer, Luc Claessen, at the start of stage 1 of the Tour de Romandie carrying his Trek Madone sporting what is clearly a new version of a SRAM shift/brake lever.
