MERIDA Bikes 2014 - international

MERIDA
Velo
Team
Gravity
A team as colourful as the favourite outfits of its members:
Pavel Alekhin, Adrian Tell, Clemens Kaudela, Dominik Raab,
Hannes Klausner and Tanja Hendrysiak are the six cornerstones
of our MERIDA VELO TEAM. Together, these world-class riders
combine the playful MTB disciplines Dirt, Slopestyle, Street Trial,
Freeride, Downhill and Fourcross. On their MERIDA bikes, they are
touring all around the globe.
„Our MERIDA VELO TEAM does not
only prove that MERIDA masters a
lot of variations of MTB riding: First
of all, it is also a very important
feedback source for our development
processes.“
Reynaldo Ilagan, R&D Engineer MERIDA
They tour internationally, are well-known on
YouTube & Co. and fill the MERIDA video channel.
And with their unbelievable versatility, they
make sure that MERIDA is successfully able to
demonstrate the brand’s performance potential
also far beyond the borders of XC race courses.
Under the roof of the MERIDA VELO TEAM, e.
g. Pavel “The Cherry” Alekhin, Adrian Tell and
Clemens Kaudela are gathered as Russia’s,
Norway’s and Austria’s best dirt riders. These
three dirt experts account for triumphs at such
renowned contests like Vienna Air King, Red
Bull Bergline or White Style Leogang. The trial
specialist Dominik Raab has even won National
Championship laurels and rocks his MERIDA on
more than 100 show days a year. Besides the
trial hero Danny MacAskill, the Austrian biker
undoubtedly ranges among the most popular
stars of the scene: His countless video projects
around the world initiate new “aahs” and “oohs”
again and again … Hannes Klausner and Tanja
Hendrysiak favour a clearly longer suspension
travel – albeit in the case of the team’s lady
also extremely successful regarding 4X racing.
These two MERIDA VELO members from
Austria and Germany prove their preference
for enduro and freeride missions especially as
photo riders for catalogue or advertisement productions.
In doing so, they show consistently
that they are true lucky finds who underline the
MERIDA VELO TEAM’s special significance for
the brand.
But these six exceptional talents do not only
guarantee pleasant athletic successes while
they also embody the fact that MERIDA masters
all those various MTB disciplines: As highly
valuable feedback resources, our team riders
support the competent (further) development of
MERIDA bikes as well. This ensures that each
MERIDA pilot all over the world can always rely
on great material which has been developed
and tested meticulously at a top level. Best example
for the current model year: the HARDY
PRO. Together with the contractual riders, our
experienced R&D engineers were for example
able to reduce the dirt bike’s weight, to revise
the chain stays effectively or to create even
more options for the individual fork setup (further
HARDY PRO info on page 72) – very much
to the delight of the team athletes who in return
give thanks to these efforts with their outstanding
performances.
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