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Bike at bedtime 2022 Yukiya Arishiro Merida Scultura Credit FSA,iimiwaBike at bedtime: Yukiya Arishiro's Japan National Championship Merida Scultura
We've seen many countries host their National Championships over the last few weeks and if you're strong enough, smart enough and lucky enough to win your respective race then one of the perks is often a freshly painted race bike...the newly crowned champion of Japan has wasted no time in showing off his...
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The 90th edition of Japan's National Road race Championships was claimed by Yukiya Arashiro of Bahrain Victorious and he's recently been showing off this rather swish paint job to celebrate.
> Jai Hindley’s 2022 Giro d’Italia winning bikes
The design has been meticulously painted by Lumar Colours, a company synonymous within the world of cycling for creating some of the most iconic designs of the last decade. For example, when you see the likes of Peter Sagan, Julian Alaphillippe or Jai Hindley rocking a new paint scheme, chances are it's been through Lumar Colours' doors.
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> Review: Shimano Dura-Ace R9200 Groupset
> Review: Continental GP5000TR Tyres
The bike in question is a Merida Scultura Team kitted out with Shimano's latest 12-speed Dura-Ace R9200 generation groupset and FSA finishing kit. That includes a Vision Metron 6D cockpit, Vision Metron 55 SL Disc wheels which are set up tubeless with 30mm Continental Grand Prix 5000TR rubber, Elite Leggero bottle cages and sponsor-compliant Shimano Dura-Ace R9100 pedals.
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If anyone is able to translate this text on the top tube then please let us know in the comments section below!
> Review: Vision Metron 6D Integrated bar/stem
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The saddle and bar tape come courtesy of Prologo, would you be brave enough to use white bar tape? We do suppose that Arashiro isn't planning on using his new bike on mucky UK lanes though...
Seen a National Champ's custom paint scheme that you prefer? Let us know in the comments section below...
Jamie has been riding bikes since a tender age but really caught the bug for racing and reviewing whilst studying towards a master's in Mechanical engineering at Swansea University. Having graduated, he decided he really quite liked working with bikes and is now a full-time addition to the road.cc team. When not writing about tech news or working on the Youtube channel, you can still find him racing local crits trying to cling on to his cat 2 licence...and missing every break going...
Yes. If we expect people to cycle to places they now mostly drive to then they have to have routes that go to those places which feel safe and are...
Meh, potato, potahtoe. We go from millimetres from death to meters of nothing, doesn't feel in the same ballpark.
Pretty stunning disaster of a comment. Gratuitous bigotry, irrelevant to the point of the article, nothing of substance worth saying or replying to...
The driver of this Focus failed to stop for Police in Salford this evening. He ran off with the car keys and his drugs but fortunately for us, he...
Maybe even some squirrels
Meanwhile, the DM rebel rouses it's moronic reader base to call for laws to be updated so cyclists can be properly punished for killing other road...
Same here
Phoning the new emergency number 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 would have been as effective.
Ebay can be quite good but list it when they have one of their 80% off selling fees weekends (seem to be every second Friday-Monday), or else you...
Manufacturing defect, send it back for a refund. Could be any number of reasons. Inconvenient but it won't take long to fix.