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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.

Hello all,

HiThis is my 1975 Mercian(17975).  I recently built it up mostly using bits from the garage.  I took it it out for a spin yesterday and it is perfect!  I have just bought some Nuovo Record front and rear mechs and a set of Strada cranks.  As soon as I can source some chainrings I will be swapping th

"I took my new Mercian Audax out for it's maiden voyage today and it was a pure joy to ride I'm now looking forward to another 30 years of pleasure on the roads with my steel horse. 

Dear all at Mercian Cycles, many thanks for my new Mercian frame, painted in my club colours, Thornton RC. I've now built it up and road tested it, a beautiful ride. Thanks again,   Michael 

Did I ever send you a picture of my Pro Lugless? If you want to post it on the Blog, be my guest. The way things are with the weather, it's the only bike I shall be riding! Seriously, if I had to give up all my bikes (ten - if you include the Anniversary) and keep one, it would be the Pro Lugless as

We have just released this new range of standard build bikes @mercianmechanic (Ray) has labelled the Wiglaf. This was the name of a early king of Mercia. The bikes are available in three sizes 52, 54, 56. The frames are built with Reynolds 631 O/S tubing with a hidden head set and carbon forks. The

David and his Mercian Audax on top of Col de Galibier in the Marmotte sportive 2010

My Strada Speciale is now fully built.  I've not taken her for a spin yet as she'll not fancy the damp, salty roads.  I'll wait for a really good day.  The frame is truly splendid.   You can see a full list of the parts used in the build on my flickr photostream - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjroma

Hi there,I'm Fabio from Vertical Sport, Italy. 

i This is my 1975 Mercian(17975).  I recently built it up mostly using bits from the garage.  I took it it out for a spin yesterday and it is perfect!  I have just bought some Nuovo Record front and rear mechs and a set of Strada cranks.  As soon as I can source some chainrings I will be swapping th

I bought some of these  for the festive season and just thought you would like the story found on the reverse label.

A few pics of my KOM thanks guys, nice work. Ken