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Merida

Merida is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer that predominantly sells bikes under its own brand, but also manufactures for other brands.
Merida was founded in 1972 by Ike Tseng as a sub-contractor making Raleigh-branded bikes for the North American market. The original factory was based on the layout of Raleigh's plant in Nottingham.
Today's Merida makes a full range of road and mountain bikes. Its road range includes the Reacto aero bikes, Scultura race bikes and Ride sportive bikes.
Merida was one of the last major bike manufacturers to sponsor a top-level road racing team when it began to supply bikes to the Lampre-Merida team in 2013.

Merida Speeder 300 2025

The Speeder lives up to its name – a nimble, flat-barred commuter, urban runabout or back lane blaster

£1000.00

Sun, Nov 09, 2025 15:45

Merida officially unveils the Mission, a new gravel race and multi surface bike with integrated downtube storage

Your Mission, should you choose to accept it is... an all new gravel and mixed surface platform from Merida, which is more aggressive than the brand's Silex gravel bike to better cope with faster 'European-style' gravel races

Fri, Nov 07, 2025 08:00

A helmet with a crash detection system from Lumos, plus more cool things for urban riding from Shimano, Rapha, Merida + Michelin

From smart helmets and reflective gear to tyres, bikes, and drivetrains, here's some of the latest and greatest kit to land at road.cc HQ

Mon, Oct 27, 2025 13:15

2025 Matej Mohoric World Gravel Champs Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Matej Mohorič rides unreleased Merida Mission gravel bike to Gravel World Champs podium

Here’s what we can spot on the Slovenian rider’s brand-new gravel bike ahead of its official November launch (shame there's no dropper post)

Mon, Oct 13, 2025 12:51

Bike manufacturer Merida changes its migrant worker policy after Giant’s imports blocked by US over forced labour allegations

Taiwan-based bike brand introduces zero-fee policy for migrant workers and insists it "strictly complies" with country's labour laws

Tue, Oct 07, 2025 09:20

Merida’s sensible Silex and Marin’s versatile sub-£1k touring bike both impress: road.cc Recommends updated with 9 more excellent products

Not all of our readers agreed with the scoring on some of the products that bagged Recommends badges last month, but that's the beauty of independent product reviews. Read on to find out what stood out for us in July

Fri, Aug 08, 2025 17:00

Merida Reacto 9000

Five years on, the Reacto is still a fast and planted aero road bike that is able to compete with the best in the category

£6250.00

Sun, Aug 03, 2025 14:45

Merida aims to bring high performance at a low price to a wide range of riders with its new Big.Nine and Big.Seven TFS hardtails

With prices starting at £575, Merida's Big.Nine provides mega affordability

Fri, Jul 25, 2025 07:00

Merida Silex 400

Very capable machine blending mountain bike geometry with drop bars and a rigid setup, an allroad bike on steroids!

£1650.00

Sun, Jul 06, 2025 14:45

All the bikes! Five cool things coming soon from Specialized, Wattbike, Merida, Genesis and Quella

Road, gravel, commuter, indoor and flat bar bikes - we have them all covered in our latest haul of cool things in for review

Mon, Jun 16, 2025 12:00