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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.

Here for your use is a photo of my Mercian on the first shake-down ride. You sent me the frame and fork last October and I've been working on it as I find the time or get the parts in. This is a kingfisher blue Audax 853 frame with gold lug lines and a satin finish. Drivetrain is SRAM (Campy crank

Barry popped in to see us today, not from around the corner but from Hoy in Orkney. The half way trip from Glasgow took 5 hours drive alone so the round trip has to be a total 20 hours drive. We sat him on the frame jig and took the King of Mercia complete bike order during the day with cups of tea

We have one 60th Anniversary frame left if you have been thinking of one now is the time to order . The link to our web page which has all the details here

I though you would like to see this picture sent to me by a twitter follower @pee_jay_1

We don't only sell Mercian frames and bikes but we also have a nice range of Moda bikes in stock from straight handle bar hybrids to full-on road bikes, and below are a couple of bikes from their range. We don't sell a huge range other bikes in our shop, we concentrate on quality over quantity. We

The above second hand frame is a 58cm King with Cantilever brake pivots  and rear cable bridge with full clearance , Double lever bosses on the down tube ( cable stops ) tunnels under the shell with a chain stay stop . Brake cable stop/guides on lower left of the top tube. 1" threaded fork column an

We do not seem to get many second hand Mercian frames but recently a few have been part exchanged towards a new Mercian. The above 23" King is Reynolds 531 and has clearance for 700c wheels with mudguards. Its just been re-sprayed in silver pearl with white gothic transfers on the down tube head and

This is Thomas our new apprentice frame builder, proudly holding his first frame. A very keen cyclist who believe it or not broke his leg badly, falling off a bike, just after his interview, but he manages to hobble in every day on crutches and he's on the mend. Welcome to the team Thomas.

Here for your use is a photo of my Mercian on the first shake-down ride. You sent me the frame and fork last October and I've been working on it as I find the time or get the parts in.

At Last we have what you have been waiting for, the Mercian Head badge. They retail for £48.50 +v.a.t (if applicable) available for standard and oversize head tubes. Look great and are fab quality. They weigh in at 23g if anyone wants to know. (coming soon the 1950's head badge)

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