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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.

Ciaran at Push cycles has just purchased a new frame fitting jig. The lads there will guide you through your Mercian Frame order. They are based in London 35c Newington Green London N169PR

Additional photographs of my bike, as requested. A 2010 Vincitore in black and gold, with 14-speed Rohloff hub and Lauterwasser bars - recently reissued by Soma Fabrications. I've been delighted with the bike, whether commuting a few miles through town, or on a proper weekend spin. Indeed, as tweete

After 20 something years of wanting and 6 months working for mercian cycles I finally got my hands on a mercian frame. Built-up with some old parts I had in the bottom of my tool box and some new parts. I have been riding my mercian to and from work for 3 weeks now and I thought it was time I went o

Due to a recent twitter post I have been asked more than a few times for more pictures of this bike. If your the owner or know of the owner can you please send a few in for the blog. Thank you Grant

Attached is photo of my King of Mercia, (purchased new 16/12/1994) 531 Competition tubing, Cinelli lugs, fork crown & B/B, recently updated to fully Campag with triple C/S, 10sp 13/26 cassette, Mavic Open CD rims on Record hubs, Grand Prix tyres, and Royce saddle. It is as good now as when it was bu

Hi Mercian Cycles Responding to your request for cycle pictures with a story for your blog site, this is how i came to be the greatful owner of this little gem. This 1993 Audax was owned by a late friend's brother who lived just two miles from your shop, he gave it to his brother who in turn gif

Hy there, this is Fabio from Arco-TN, Italy. I' m sending to you a picture of me and my Audax Special on "Roc Trevezel" during the last Paris-Brest-Paris this summer. The journey has been long and hard, but it was worth it; beautiful countryside, tipical weather, people on the streets, dark nights,

Jens built his bike around this Vigorelli and as you can see is a good all-rounder. His email is below.

We have a vacancy for a saturday person. If you fancy a saturday job please email or call in the shop. You must be able use one of these.

Here's a pic of my Audax special on the top of Wideford Hill outside of Kirkwall in Orkney. The bike was my 40th Birthday present to myself and this holiday was my 40th birthday present from my wife. The view from the top was well worth the effort getting to the top, as you can see. Thanks, Matt

A good photo but all it said in the email was :- My 2004 King of Mercia is not afraid of the rough stuff.

Hi Guys we need some help if you have any photos with a good story attached please do send them in to the shop email address. I,m getting very low on pictures for the blog . Thank you.