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The rest are all disc brake with carbon fibre frames.The 100, 200, 300 and 400 all have a hydro-formed, aluminium triple butted frames paired with a carbon fork. Merida 2018 mountain bikes. The Merida Speeder 900 lives up to its name as a supremely fast and efficient flat-bar road bike. For mountain bikers there’s a wealth of hardtail and full-suspension models to choose from. Effectively, this is just tapering of the material, with more being used at junctions where reinforcement is needed.Wider 28mm tyres compared to 25mm ones and Rat 12mm through axles make up the marginal differences between the Scultura disc and the Scultura rim brake.The Silex 6000, 7000 and 8000 come with the Merida’s CF2 frames and SRAM or Shimano GRX groupsets.Designed to be a road racing frame, the Scultura is quick and nimble with an agressive geo, and almost all models feature disc brakes.Here in the UK, Merida bikes are mostly sold via online retailers or in local stores with the brand mostly avoiding the major high street retailers.According to Merida, the decision to extend the head tube is to make the need for spacers obsolete and to make descending on the drops safer and more comfortable.Merida uses two different geometry styles across its carbon fibre Reacto bikes. Merida uses its Nano Matrix Carbon and carbon Anti-Wrinkle System across nearly all of its carbon fibre bikes, and both of these help increase the stiffness of the frame. Merida Reacto 6000. The 7000 comes with a Shimano Ultegra groupset whilst the Force features SRAM’s eTap AXS for a premium experience.The aluminium Mission CX 600 uses the same technology as we find on other aluminium Merida bikes. Merida bikes: The Merida Scultura Range. Merida is the second-largest manufacturer in Taiwan, and since it started out life as a manufacturer for other well-known brands like Specialized, it knew exactly what it was doing when it decided to launch its own range of bikes. You've been subscribed to our newsletter.For mountain bikers there’s a wealth of hardtail and full-suspension models to choose from.Get the next 3 issues of the UK's number one cycling magazine for just £5Merida’s range of bikes is vast, covering everything from mountain biking to road cycling, and everything in between.Already have an account with us? Now Merida’s range is vast, spanning  virtually all disciplines. The 200 and 400 feature a double ring setup, all the rest are one-by.The Mission CX 7000 and and Force edition of the same use CF3 frames, and use the same carbon technology as found on all of Merida’s other bikes. These also share Merida’s ‘smooth welding’ technology and have the capability to accommodate internal cable routing.Merida also uses triple butted Aluminium on its Prolite 66 frames. An aero road bike is all the rage in the World Tour these days, so it’s no surprise to find Merida makes one. To be specific, the Silex 200, 300 and 600 have the ‘Silex Lite’ frame which is a hydro-formed, triple butted aluminium frame with smooth welding partnered with a carbon fork up front. Meanwhile, the Anti-Wrinkle System does exactly what it says on the tin – it stops the inside of the frame wrinkling, which Merida says helps increase durability and improve stiffness.Just from looking at it, it’s clear that the Reacto has all the makings of a bonafide aero bike. At a lower level, the frames are labelled CF2 which is the brand’s more relaxed geometry while the Reacto 10K-E and 9000-E benefit from the CF4 frames which have Merida’s racing geometry.Merida has plenty of bike technology at play across its model range, and we’ve touched upon a lot of them throughout this piece but we’ll expand a little bit on some of the key focus’, especially to do with frame design.While it might sound like a fable, Merida bikes was in fact created because its founder Tseng, while on a trip to the USA, was disappointed to find a bike shop that wouldn’t fix bikes from Taiwan due to “poor quality”.The Silex range is less expansive than its Scultura sibling, but it still manages to offer both aluminium and carbon models. The higher end models feature a CF4 frame have an integrated Vision Metron cockpit that hides the Di2 junction box and the frame has the complex shapes that ear mark it as a whippet in the wind.Both the CF2 and CF4 carbon fibre frames also come with NACA truncated tube designs, so the higher end bikes get a nice aerodynamic touch.Merida also has an extensive list of aluminium technologies that are worth dipping into at this point as a lot of them are found on the bikes described above.