50 years of Merida pushbikes

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50 years of Merida pushbikes
Ben_Haworth
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Who doesn’t love a good ol’ trip down a mountain biking memory lane, hey? Let’s look back over the last 50 years of Merida…

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By ben_haworth

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Posted 2 years ago

Woo
Full Member

The word “pushbike” should be removed from the English language. Bicycle, pedal cycle, bike will do, but never pushbike which is a word used by bicycle haters. My preferred term is riding iron, as in the cry at the start of a ride ” ladies and gentlemen take your riding irons “

Posted 2 years ago

cookeaa
Full Member

I own a Merida and can honestly say I couldn’t care less about their corporate history, does anyone really?

Posted 2 years ago

BruceWee
Free Member

does anyone really?

I do.

Posted 2 years ago

singlespeedstu
Full Member

Well you learn something new every day.
A mate had a No6 when we were kids.
I never knew it was a Merida.

Posted 2 years ago

thegeneralist
Free Member

What the **** is a pushbike?

Posted 2 years ago

Saccades
Free Member

Didn’t know the story about the sign.

Nothing about them owning a chunk of specialized or the LRS (I know, licensed from bergwerk)?

Had loads of meridas over the years, my fav being the Carrera Fury from about 2000, but also have a soft spot for the lrs.

Posted 2 years ago

TrailriderJim
Free Member

How did geometry begin so wrong without someone suggesting “let’s try the complete opposite”? That 1980 MTB, horrendous. Hindsight is truly annoying.

Posted 2 years ago

Rubber_Buccaneer
Full Member

How did geometry begin so wrong without someone suggesting “let’s try the complete opposite”?

Pure chance. Marketing always has to make something ‘more’ from one model year to the next and it was a mere toss of a coin, direction of the wind or whatever that set us all off in the direction of more steeper head angles, more shorter wheelbases, more narrower bars and more faster handling.

Posted 2 years ago

cheekyget
Free Member

My 1984 mongoose californian is merida made

Posted 2 years ago

jameso
Full Member

does anyone really?

I do too. It’s as much part of the history of bikes as who won what when.

and it was a mere toss of a coin, direction of the wind or whatever that set us all off in the direction of more steeper head angles, more shorter wheelbases, more narrower bars and more faster handling.

It was the roadies more XCing them what did that. MTBs 1980-1987 were mostly better geometries than all that NORBA XC geometry stuff 1990-1995 imho. At least, closer to where they ended up. I like how the early 80s MTBs looked.

Posted 2 years ago

chrismac
Full Member

Was this advert written before or after the freebies in fgf turned up 😁

Posted 2 years ago

olly2097
Free Member

I like my “Aldi” bikes as a friend described my Merida in 2014.

Love my 2021 big trail Aldi bike especially.

Posted 2 years ago

Jordan
Full Member

When I was a kid we couldn’t wait to get outside and get ont’pushbikes!

Posted 2 years ago

wbo
Free Member

Pushbikes is a great word.

Riding irons is not, is foppish, and reeks of trying to be hipster.

Posted 2 years ago