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merida gold giro tribute bike_-eurobike-2017-5.jpgBike at bedtime: Merida’s Gold Scultura Giro d’Italia tribute bike
Not too deep in to the road.cc archive for our first of the new look bike at bedtime feature, but a bike that’s pretty timely with the 101st Giro d’Italia just having ended. It’s Merida’s special gold - well, goldish tribute to 100 years of the Giro as spotted by us at last year’s Eurobike… okay, six month’s after the race but we got their eventually.
The bike was made for Vincenzo Nibali as the Bahrain-Merida rider to get him in the mood as he attempted to win his third Giro d’Italia in a row. It’s a team issue Scultura - Merida’s lightweight race bike - and what set it apart is the ribbon of gold leaf that it is wrapped in bearing the names of all the previous winners of the race. The gold band is supposed to echo the look of the Giro trophy, mmm… yeah I suppose. Nibali rode it during the race – which was won by Tom Dumoulin. Oh well.
If that’s whetted your appetite for more Merida Scultura related info you can find a whole slew of it here
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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Do you have to wear a sovereign ring and gold Rolex when you ride it
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