Our mountain biking history is long and illustrious, the Multivan Merida Biking Team dominated XC and marathon racing for many years.
Pro racer Ralph Naef spearheaded the original Ninety-Six project; a lightweight full suspension bike and rode it to a silver medal at the World Champs at Fort William a week after it was launched.
Today’s XC, marathon and stage racecourses have become much more demanding. A growing number of riders are seeking down-country bikes combining the climbing and sprinting ability of a lightweight XC race bike with the ‘trail-ability’ of a trail bike.
The new Ninety-Six is a super modern cross country race bike. Modern, in this case, means that it is much more downhill capable than its predecessors. Available in two variants; RC for full on XC racing and for down-country riders non-RC models have 120mm front forks, grippier tyres and a more powerful front brake.
To improve the downhill performance, the head angle is slacker, the reach longer and the bb and stand over height are lower. All these changes make the bike more stable and there is more space to manoeuvre on the bike. The seat angle is made steeper to allow greater pressure on the pedals.
The new Ninety-Six leverage ratio is more progressive. The higher ratio at the beginning of the travel makes the suspension sensitive to small impacts, and the progression gives it great support in the mid-travel.
The new P-FLEX system means there is no seat / chainstay pivot point, which saves weight, improves stiffness. The properties of carbon and the leaf-spring-like frame design allow sufficient flex without having an impact on durability.
- Lightweight CF4 carbon frame
- FOX Float DPS Performance Elite shock and FOX 34 Float SC Performance Elite fork
- Reynolds TR309/289 carbon wheelset with Maxxis Minion DHR II tyres
- Shimano XT 1 x 12 drivetrain with Race Face Next R crank
- Shimano XT hydraulic disc brakes
- Dropper post
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- 100mm suspension travel
- material: carbon
- 29x2.3" max. wheelsize
- 148x12mm axle standard
- BSA bottom bracket standard
- SRAM-UDH Hanger
- remote lockout
- Air
- 120mm suspension travel
- Tapered
- Remote lockout
- 44mm fork offset
- 29x2.4" max. wheelsize
- 110x15mm width front hub
- 148x12mm width rear hub
- 30/28mm inner width
- Centerlock
- Shimano 12 Speed
- material: carbon
- Tubeless ready (tubeless tape and valves included)
- Lifetime warranty
- 29x2.3"
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- 29x2.3"
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- TR EXO 3C MaxxTerra
- including removeable lever, 6/4mm allen key
- 32 teeth
- 170 mm-S, 175 mm-M up
- 10-51 teeth
- 12 speed
- Multi Release
- 4 piston
- 2 piston
- flat mount
- 180 mm
- 160 mm
- 30.9mm diameter
- 0mm setback
- S: 125mm travel seatpost - M 150mm travel seatpost - L/XL 170mm travel seatpost
- V-mount
- incl. MERIDA minitool

Frame Size | M | L | XL |
Tyre Sizes | 29" | 29" | 29" |
St Seat Tubes mm | 440 | 470 | 500 |
Tt Top Tubes mm | 601 | 624 | 648 |
Cs Chain Stays mm | 435 | 435 | 435 |
HTA head tube angle [°] | 67 | 67 | 67 |
STA seat tube angle [°] | 75 | 75 | 74.5 |
Bd Bottom Bracket Drops mm | 36 | 36 | 36 |
Ht Head Tube Lengths mm | 95 | 105 | 115 |
Fl Fork Lengths mm | 530 | 530 | 530 |
R Reach mm | 440 | 460 | 480 |
S Stacks mm | 595 | 605 | 614 |
Wb Wheel Base mm | 1156 | 1180 | 1203 |
Sh Stand Over Height mm | 741 | 747 | 749 |