2025 is shaping up to be a very exciting year for new road bikes and we’ve managed to get our hands on some of the top models. We’ve selected 9 brilliant bikes ranging from range topping offerings from Specialized, Colnago and Pinarello to better value bikes for the everyday rider from Triban, Cannondale and Merida. Let us know which is your favourite and which you’re exited to ride in 2025.
00:00 – Intro
00:21 – Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
02:17 – Argon 18 Sum Pro
04:12 – Triban RC520
06:14 – Pinarello Dogma F
07:41 – Merida Scultura 6000
09:11 – Cannondale Caad 13
10:36 – Canyon Ultimate CF SLX 8
12:10 – Colnago C68
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43 Comments
Only Canyon in on my scope! Too bad that I couldn’t check before buying!
Agron18 makes some of the best quality bikes! I love my Sum.
Just sounds like a compendium of the respective manufacturers’ sales blurb.
Non sense
Some top level shilling going on here. Exhibit A… The CAAD13, a bike that Cycling Weekly themselves have said is well overdue an upgrade. If you had to have an alloy bike in here then how you would choose the CAAD over the Emonda ALR is beyond me. Cheaper, more modern and with welds that don't look like they were made by a blind monkey. Still, at least CW remains consistent.
How in the name of god is Cube Agree/Attain not on this list? If it’s meant to be genuinely helpful? Ultegra level carbon bikes for €3,000 is unbeatable by anyone. Even Canyon. Can only conclude like others this is a marketing piece.
nice to see the RC520 on the list. It's decent for the money, but please add more sub £2K bikes.
Pinarello is the nicest
Can we have Top 9 Best endurance Road Bikes For 2025 under 3000$ We are not millionnaire.
thanks ! but no thanks ! i will stick with my cannondale supersix evo hi mod 2016 ultegra mechanical rim brake 6.6kg with pedals ! pick one up second hand for circa £1,500 ! cheep low maintenance very high end performance ! N.B 85% of aero comes from your body position and clothing on the bike !
Hello Freds
WHERE GIANT???? 😡
Disk brake. 😠👎
Rim Brake. 😎👍
Trek?
My two favorite road bikes for 2025:
My 2000 Serotta with Reynolds’s 853 main tubes and Serotta carbon fork and 2000 Campagnolo Chorus 10 speed group.
My 2004 Specialized Allez CroMo made with Columbus FoMoCo tubing, so it’s Mo Fuckin Good! It came with carbon fork and Shimano 6600 Ultegra 10 speed group.
To each his own.
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.. Good job reading.. 🙄
Hardly a bike for every budget, as most were over 6k
I'll be riding the Sworks! Hopefully it's more compliant in the seat tube than my Aeroad.
This advert is BS sorry
Gonna go ride my trusty old light and aero rim brake bike up a hill and down again
Good luck with these 2025 monstrosities
This must be tagged COMMERCIAL
Good support, and manufacturing:
Focus
Cube
Time
Look
Colnago
Argon 18
Scott
Enve
Boring, boring, boring, boring …..
Would appreciate your take on the best endurance bikes
Best bike for 2025?
A rim brake, mechanical, Ultegra spec'd carbon race bike from 2012 on Ebay for under a thousand dollars. Thank me later, Freds.
Nice review, I agree with Benoit, please do an Endurance bike top 10. Thanks. 😊
Dear Santa Claus i was a good boy this year, please consider me for a testdrive with a tarmac or dogma f , thank you. 😊
This list clearly isn’t for the normal working person, who has a Mortgage, kids and cycles as a hobby.
Love that Colnago!!
Carbon, carbon, and more carbon, how original, boring…. And apparently not a model for everybody because I prefer steel like the Strael by Fairlight Cycles…
"We've haven't just picked out the big names and the big price tags… Let's kick things off with the Specialised S-WORKS SL8" 😂😂
Mostly the usual suspects. I love my Wilier filante sl but could be tempted by Colnago if I had the readies.
Hi bro!nice to meet you! Im new i just bought a road bike can you help me with anything with it i can balance?
SL8 is often in first. Strange not ?
How Pakistani price
Top 9 best road bikes for 2025 ? ? Wonder how You arrived at that bike selection ! !
Cannondales welding welts look like torture scars. Don't wanna be seen dead on such a bike, let alone alive.
Just like my dearly departed C59, the C68 is a work of art and a beautiful bike to ride. However, whilst extremely expensive Colnago’s warranty is amongst the worst in the world, if not the worst, for dollars spent. So unless you are happy to just hang it on the wall, after the bottom bracket cracks from galvanic corrosion, and all Colnago have to say is “Sorry, don’t ride it”, don’t waste your hard earned money.😢
What about winspace? Anyone? Opinions? I want to buy one…
The audio is awful on this video. 🙁
Multiple times you said "up to 30mm" as if that was impressive. I would expect even race bikes to take 32mm tyres at this point.
For me still winning my Tarmac SL8 Pro 🤍
Where is the new Factor Ostro VAM, the real SL8 Tarmac killer !!!!
If I want a bike it must stand-out and not be a boring "Clone" like most people ride!
If I am paying big money, I also expect Italian-made, not sweat-shop garbage!
It must also have equipment I want, meaning no bland, unexciting Shima(NO!).
This mean's I need a custom-build, as there is nothing I want!
Luckily, I recently bought a lightly used Colnago C64 to change from my C60 which was a lovely bike!
Young owner of C64 which had Campagnolo mechanical, said it was better than Shima(NO!), too!
I am changing to Campagnolo Super Record 12-speed EPS, with WTO 60 disc supplied!!!
I have just received my Deda Alanera RS carbon integrated bars which were special ordered with a
near £800 price tag, and a few months wait!
Unfortunately, Chicken Cycles never got the headset adaptor, although they knew what bike I had, so
I contacted Deda who sent one for FREE, with me only paying the next day delivery charge!!!
Selle SMP F30 carbon saddle was special ordered, as not available in UK, with most Campagnolo at
bargain prices for some reason!?
I even have the gimmick Ceramic Speed OSPW, too!
Unlike most bikes, it will actually get the "Jealousy" out in people, as I also wear top-end bright Italian
clothing which is not available in the UK!