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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.

Greetings:

Above is Daves 60th Anniversary frame/bike and a few lines from his email sent the other day :- I can tell you it was well worth the wait! This is a joy to ride; it's very quick when you put the power down; stiff, without being uncomfortable and the steering is nice and sharp. It would make a good c

Hi there,Attached is a pic of my lemon pearl Pro Lugless for your gallery.  It's built with Reynolds 853 OS tubing.  Components include a Shimano Ultegra group with HED Belgium wheels andChris King hubs.  I haven't yet fully trimmed the steerer tube - I'm still experimenting with the fit.   The bike

Hey guys just finished the build on my new custom Mercian. I'm so pleased with how it has turned out. I was worried about the paint scheme initially, but as it came together, the end result has blown me away. Thank you all once again so much for your advice, help and patience throughout this build.

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Karls Trike conversion 

I've ridden many bicycles, but only ever bought one other bicycle new. I felt so comfortable on the first one that after 13 years of riding it, I thought I'd never ride a better bike. Others that rode my original bike also commented on how good it was. My new Mercian KOM however is somehow much smoo

Thanks for building me such a fantastic frame. It took a huge beating but came through unscathed. 

About six weeks ago a work friend and I decided it would be a great idea to hop on our bikes after work one evening and ride them until we got to Paris.

Hello, Thanks for putting on the pictures. They were taken on our tour of the river Loire using the dedicated cycle way between Angers and Nantes. We have now completed all of the Loire from Sancerre to the sea. It's a great traffic free ride. We have 20 gears, double chainwheel and 10 speed cassett

I wanted to say a big thank you to the your craftsmen who restored a 1961 Dawes Debonair given to me by a neighbour, shortly after her husband died. She had many fond memories of his bike, including trips with the local cycle club flying down from Baginton airport to Bristol for a day's ride in the

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