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We doff a very large cycling cap to Greg James, who finished his 8-day pan-UK challenge in Edinburgh on Friday raising over £4.5mln.  What an incredible amount! 

After six decades Mercian Cycles workshop has moved.

Through the years there were a number of locations in Derby for the shop, the frame building workshop and sprayshop. But since about 1965 the frame building and painting was taking place at the Pontefract Street workshop.

Cara Grimwade is soon to take on one of the most extreme ‘triathlons’ we have heard of.

Mercian is proud to play its part in Greg James’ upcoming awesome challenge for Comic Relief. 

Framebuilder Tim took the chance to head out on the Ventura All-road bike to go and pick up some dropouts from Bear Frame Supplies. An ideal opportunity to capture some video of the custom steel Ventura out on the gravel trails of the Derbyshire Peak District.

The most personal and hardest choice when buying your custom built Mercian bike frame is choosing which colours to have it painted

Congrats to Dave Round (and the rest of the Paris2Nice crew!) who recently finished the Paris2Nice charity ride.

Launched to celebrate 80 years of Mercian, the Ventura Allroad is a sleek, steel all-rounder built for road and gravel. One bike. Endless adventures.

Mercian has been hand-building steel bikes in Derby since 1946. Staff-owned and proud of our 80-year legacy, we remain dedicated to crafting one-off bikes the traditional way – by hand, for life.

To celebrate Derby County’s 50th anniversary title win – and Mercian’s 80th – we built a one-off Superlight road bike, raising nearly £4,000 for the Derby County Community Trust. A true Derby icon, made in Derby.

To help mark our 80th year, we’re proudly supporting British para-cyclist Calum O’Neill on his journey to LA 2028 with a custom-built Mercian trike.

Dave’s custom Ventura Allroad – built for his Paris-to-Nice charity ride and dedicated to his son, Conor – has already raised over €21,000 for mental health charity Aware.

Dear Jane, Ray and all at Mercian, I finally get around to sending you some photos of my built up frame. As I hope you can see from the snaps, the frame has been built up with love and a scattering of Italian jewels! Funnily enough, before I got the frame I was 'window shopping' outside a cycle shop

All the way from Taiwan An & Tsai popped into our workshop to say hello today. They started their year long journey around the planet in March and have a impressive 9000 miles under the wheels up to now. After a cup of tea a couple of Jaffa cakes and a chat with the lads they where on their way agai

Ive finally got round to sending you a picture of my KoM after collecting the frame from you on 1 May and building it up myself the following week. I think It looks great with Shimano XT group apart from Dura Ace bar ends (cables outed under the bar tape which shift really well), Velo Orange Grand C

  Although it was a long wait as I know the firm have been very busy, it was worth it in the end. The bike can be seen in the images below. I know that you have a gallery of images but I also think it is nice for people to be able to see recently built bikes. The quality is superb. The frame is very

It's taken me nearly a year to take this photo, mainly because I enjoy riding my new bike so much that I don't ever feel like stopping to take a picture.  But you've done such a wonderful job I thought it deserved a photo.  So here's my custom build Mercian during this morning's coffee break in the

Hi Mercian,

I got my Mercian in 2013 & love the way it handles, & the fit!  Great job of building, Mercian. Ordered by Roger at I Pro Bike Shop in Bellbrook, OH.  Have rec'd lots of complements on the color, also! Thanks, Connie Beavercreek, OH

We recently been sent these pictures by our mates at Paul Smith.  It looks like Sir Paul certainly enjoyed his trip to Japan.