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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.

The attached photo may be suitable for your gallery It is of me and my moss green pearl KOM (frame 852007, made October 2007) in Tibet at the top of the Lhakpa-La, a pass of 5262m, with Buddhist prayer flags fluttering in the wind. Mudguards removed so as to accept Travel Contact 37mm tyres, and han

Steves second Harry Quinn renovation was for his wife

Jim called in the office the other day after ordering his Mercian frame at the shop. While at the works he took a few snaps which he sent into us . Below are a few for your delectation.

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Hello gents

David sent us this picture unfortunately thats all he sent no details at all but I'm sure you agree its a looker.

Hi,

1976 Superlight

Hi Ray, Have now transfered all the bits from my old bike to the new Audex frame you built for me. All fitted well, rides superb and looks great. Thank you so much, appreciate all your help and advice. Photo attached.