11/27/2023 0 Comments Merida reacto team bahrain test reviewIt's built to a geometry that’s slightly more relaxed than that of the top-level Scultura Disc Team (£8,000) and the carbon fibre layup is different, but this is still very much a performance orientated bike featuring a down tube shaped for aerodynamic efficiency and aluminium disc cooling fins around the chainstay to shift heat away from the rear brake. The Merida Scultura Disc 6000 is no longer available but there's a Scultura Disc 5000 (above) at £2,200. Merida also offers a couple of Race entry-level aluminium road bikes.Īs well as drop bar Merida road bikes, we’ll also cover flat bar road bikes, cyclocross and hybrid bikes here. That perhaps oversimplifies things a little because each of those categories contains more than one frame design, but it’s a good start point. Let's take a look.Īs far as Merida road bikes are concerned, there are three main parts to the range: the Scultura is focused on light weight, the Reacto is engineered for aerodynamic efficiency, and the Silex is designed to offer plenty of comfort across a variety of different surfaces. Merida road bikes span everything from children’s 20in wheelers to cutting-edge aero bikes that are raced at the very highest level by the Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team. Not saying I'm gonna drop £10.5k on a new s-works SL7, but in principle I like the idea of what Specialized, Trek and Giant are trying to achieve.Welcome to the latest edition of ’s buyer's guide to Merida road bikes in which you’ll find a full run-down of the Merida range to help ensure you pick the right bike. So, to me a fun and light road bike that will still let me ride reasonably fast would be a welcome upgrade. Comfort is so so, can't moan, but it's not as comfortable as some road bikes. I like my Propel a lot and I have worked hard to make it quite light, so it's also a good climbing the handling is not as fun as a normal road bike, I guess it never will be. Let me explain, my aero bike has made me a faster rider, it has deep aero wheels and I can really feel it working for me at 25mph+, but objectively I don't ride above that speed for a high % of my riding time. To be fair I kind of agree with the current marketing outlook. And marketing weenies will follow they always do. It is disappointing, if not ridiculous, but this is how marketing works. Now that Spesh and others argue on this everyone agrees, of course. When some of us were arguing on how lower weight, comfort, responsiveness, geometry, handling, etc can actually make a normal bike as fast or even faster than a full aero bike that is heavy, harsch etc. Even faster, actually (I am looking forward to reading their 'scientific' explanation once more btw). A normal frame with aero features is maybe better. ![]() Now, that they see that they cannot push their full aero frames as much as they would like to in terms of sales (first Venge was a disaster, current systemsix is also kind of a fail etc.) or that they do not want to offer too many models they will try to persuade us that aero is not everything. The more aero it is the better/faster it is. everything was used in order to support this view. CFD tests, tests in wind tunnels, comparisons, 'independent' reviews in cycling magazines etc. It is hilarious that a few years ago all the big manufacturers were certain that aero is everything. ![]() What do you think the size of the market for a bike like this will be? After the 2021 TCR, SL7 and Emoda releases and Specialized's persuasive marketing about why a 'good enough aero' road bike is faster in real life than a 'full aero' road bike I would not be looking at 'full aero' for my next bike (and I have been riding one for a long time).
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