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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.

Hope all is ok. Just wanted to say thanks for your help during my frame build. I am really pleased with it.

I have attached some pictures of my assembled bike. It is quite lovely. It also rides great – seems like an extension to my body. You and your staff do outstanding work.

Hi Ray and all involved in building my new KoM.

Mercian

I posted a picture of this frame some time ago on Twitter (@merciancycles) and wondered then it would ever get built into a complete machine or not. Then the other day we received these photos from Jon the owner and as you can see has built a lovely machine.

Hi all at Mercian Cycles, Here are some shots of my Higgins frame recently restored by your good selves, now built up and on the road... I now also have mud guards fitted and have had to change the saddle as the Brooks has defeated me, although I might have another go later! The bike is fitted with

Hello Mercian

Find attached picture of my recently completed King of Mercia. Components as follows:

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Something a little different this post 

Hi Mercian,