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2016 Merida Scultura: World's lightest production bike?


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Better is the enemy of good: This was the motto that MERIDA’s head of R&D Jürgen Falke and his team were following when developing the fourth generation of the SCULTURA road bike platform. Being the lightest frame in MERIDA’s line-up, this frame has always been built to conquer long, steep climbs. But as extensive wind tunnel testing by German magazine Tour showed, the SCULTURA was not a top contender in terms of aerodynamics. Thus there was a clear objective for the new frame: It had to be yet a bit lighter, but more importantly it had to become more aerodynamic. Another goal was to increase the vertical compliance of the rear triangle.



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So now I have to wait until the end of the year.  Was about to trade my 2013 Scultura EVO DA in for a 2015 Reacto.

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Sub 5 kilo's for a complete road bike; 1 kilo for frame + fork: I'm Speechless! Well done Merida, although I see a lot of resemblance with the Tarmac SL5.

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This is hilarious. As someone who rides a steel frame mountain bike that hovers around 12.5 kilos I can only laugh when I read about a bike that weighs 4.5 kgs. Frankly I'm not sure I'd have the guts to ride such a machine at 30ks an hour never mind 80 to 100. Road bikers are clearly much crazier than mountain bikers. Good luck to them.

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Does this weight fall within UCI regulations?

 

 

As long as the complete bike weighs 6.8kg or above it is legal.

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The Trek Emonda 54cm frame weighs 680 grams and complete bike is 4.6kg.

 

It costs 13000 euros with all the AX-Lightness bits.

 

Will be interesting to see how the same size Merida compares in weight and cost to the Trek.

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