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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.

I do not no if this a good thing or a bad thing at the moment but I have started a Google plus account. Drop me a line and I will invite you.

Just over the next week the shop will be short staffed. Jeff and myself are both off. I'm off to London to meet the Queen due to winning an award for the Online Frame Builder and Jeff has gone walking. Ray and Carlos Fandango are holding the fort and I'm sure you will be well looked after. If you w

Not a lot of information sent in by John and Frances but it looks like they had a great time .

Here is my 2007 King of Mercia at the Washington Pass Overlook in the North Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington. Since assembling the bike in June 2007, I have ridden it 11,000 miles--all in Washington, so far. Note that I chose the colors specifically to color-coordinate with the Bluemel

This is the third set of wheels. I went from sewups to clinchers in the 1980s. The new wooden rims give the bike a retro look. I may go back to sewups. Most people think the wooden rims are original! The Speedplay pedals are an upgrade. I still have the original Christophe Special toe clips with the

It's been a while now since I picked up my KOM and I should drop you a line to say a big thank you to you and all the gang. My wife Shirl and I just spent one of the happiest weeks of our lives touring Arran, Kintyre and Islay (Shirl also on her Mercian Audax). The KOM rides like a magic carpet (eve

Dear All I attach photos of my two Mercians to show in your gallery if you can. The fuchsia and grey cycle is a 1996 Audax Special of the peg frame. I built this using a mixture of parts including Brooks , Shimano, T.A., Cinelli and Campagnolo. The blue Vincitore I had built for my 60th birthday in

Alan was a member of the South Pennine Road Club (@southpenninerc) roughly 35 years ago and is very good friend of mine. We raced together, never pulling up any trees with our times, but just enjoyed the whole bike scene. Alan has always had the best, while I was on a second hand Mercian King - he

Here are a couple shots from the first ride on my new King of Mercia, feel free to put them up on the blog if you want.

Attached is a photo of my King of Mercia taken on a murky morning on the top of the Isle of Man TT course.

Attached, a photo of my King of Mercia, purchased on 16/12/1994, and still looking great. Cinelli lugs, fork crown, B/B, bars & stem. Fully Campagnolo equipped, with Mavic rims & new Continental 4000 tyres. A new Campag Comp 10 triple chainset, and new Rolls Forato saddle and Fizik H/B tape. Us

Hi - I'm attaching some photos of my 953 frame which I had built last year. I'm very pleased with it, its alot stiffer than my old 853 but is nearly as comfortable. I love the old Olympic decal. I've also found that Cilit Bang Stainless is great for cleaning the stays.