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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.

Michael kindly sent us a few photos of his Paul Smith bike collection. The track frame was in recently for a full renovation.

Mark recently sent us his Tommy Godwin frame for renovation , Mark and the Mercian team are very happy with the result.

As promised please find attached the following starting from the bottom!

Just a short note to thank the Mercian team for doing such a great job on the frame. I’m really pleased with it and it certainly stands out against all of the carbon machines here in HK! Sorry it’s taken a while but I wanted to send you some pics and the wheels were held up for 2 months due to suppl

We're back from our weeks holiday now and it was a pleasure to get back to this nice email from Bill about the renovation of his 1966 Mercian Olympique.

Mercian Crest featured on Derby Bridge

Lance sent in these pictures for you to have a look at from Yakima Washington of his Mercian Vincitore with Campagnolo equipment.

Christopher kindly sent us a few pictures of his Mercian who lives in Thailand

Justin sent these pictures for the blog. he is on instagram here My IG handle is @mr.babaaganoush. We do not know where in the world he is but it certainly looks warm.

Almost fifty years ago I bought a Mercian from Action Sports in Beaverton, Oregon USA.

Please find attached photos of my Mercian 'stable'.  There is another one but it resides at my mates house in North Wales.  The white one you refurbished for me in April has received many admiring comments.  Let's hope it may generate some business for guys.

I thought you might like to see how I built up my recently refurbished 531c frame. I’ve not been out on it yet though as it’s snowing here 🤨 Can’t wait until it melts