Planet X launches new Viner Maxima carbon road bike

New Maxima has a sub-kilo frame and a claimed all-up weight of 7.15kg for £2500

The Viner brand has been around since 1947, when it was founded near Florence by Viviano Nerozzi. It’s one of those brands with a considerable racing heritage back in the day. Now owned by Planet X, the Viner range has expanded with the just-announced top of the range Maxima.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.