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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 guys,

Hi there everyone at Mercian,

Matching KOM and building in Cardiff!

I thought you may be interested in photos of my finished project.

I finished the 1975 Superlight Here are the pictures feel free to display if you like enjoy, warmest regards James

HiJust a note of thanks for the splendid respray job on my Langdale 653 frame and forks, I'm really pleased with the result and the bike has drawn quite a few complimentary comments.

Hi there,

Here's a picture of the Dawes Super Galaxy you re sprayed for me in July. Picture taken on the Isle of Skye. 

20 year old Mercian 'classic' rebuild. Original frame and paint job, mudguards and rims. Rebuilt with contemporary components for touring.

My thanks for the beautiful refurbishment of my beloved Claud Butler Majestic.  I have to say I think you guys have surpassed even your own previous effort on this frame.  The Deep Flam Blue is even deeper and more vibrant than I remembered from last time around.  It looks deep enough to dive into!

I am sending you a full profile drive side photo of my Strada Speciale in case you would ever want to use it for your gallery or something.

Last week I found myself traveling to New Zealand for work; why not take the bike?  Here are photos of my S&S coupled Mercian in its case (loaned at last minute from Larry at Mt Airy Bicycles, Mt Airy, MD USA); after 20 hours of flying, reassembled at the Auckland airport and ready to roll; noth