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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.

Promised I'd send pictures of my completed Mercian.  Truly a work of art.  Thanks.

My King of Mercia at the summit of The Ibaneta pass in the Pyrenees in winter.

This is a Mercian Professional in 853. The colour- Bianchi Blue. Perhaps a silver Campagnolo spider chainset would have been more in keeping aesthetically but I wasn't building a retro build and I like Ultegra. The seat post is Kalloy and the quill stem 3TTT; Mavic Kyserium Elite wheels. Shimano tou

Here is my renovated King of Mercian.  The frame was bought new in Dublin in 1975.   It was resprayed 2 years ago by Mercian and done up to the current glory again.  Thanks for the good work, the frame looked like it was brand new after the re-spray.  The original colour was a metallic green which i

We recently sprayed Geralds Moulton frame. This is the final result and it looks like a new bike now and all ready for next summers sun.

Not a lot I can tell you about this one. All the email said was :-

Hello!I have finished my King of Mercia!

Hello from Zurich. 

Hi,

Dear Mercian,I have attached a picture of my King of Mercian for the blog.

Dear Mercian involved with my new frame,