Mercian Professional. Mine since 1979. I put straight bars on it after some surgery on my neck. I'm all healed now, but it's nice to cruise around upright. This bike handles as smoothly now as it did when it was new. Reynolds 531, Cinelli hand-cut spear point lugs, wrap-around seat stay. (I'm also running Basso, Bianchi, Olmo, and another frame of unknown origin (it has dropouts and fork ends labeled "Gipiemme"). The picture was taken on the Duprerier Street draw bridge in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Mercian Professional with fully-packed panniers and white "mud guards." Somewhere between Coventry and the coast of Wales. Spring 1981.
Cheers, James
