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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.

22nd April Closed 23rd April Open 24th April Closed 25th April Closed Open as normal after Please note we are also closed on the 29th April

I am attaching a couple of photos of the Anniversary frame built up with all Campagnolo Record parts except for Japanese brakes. Jeff has just purchased this frame from us but already thinking of a new colour scheme . We feel it certainly looks the part. Thanks for the photo's Jeff

Kyle sent me this picture of his latest frame to his collection. He sent me these links to some of his other bikes here and here

Here is my completed 725 Audax Special in Apple Green, it's a mix of traditional British crafts man ship and Japan's engineering abilities. And what a ride! A Big thank you to the team at Mercian for the attention to detail during the fitting session and then the building and finish of this beauty.

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Greetings from the USA, please see the attached photos of my new King Of Mercia, which I ordered from International Pro Bike Shop in Bellbrook Ohio back in May, and just took delivery of today. Just got back from a very short ride and I'm thrilled. The bike is my second KoM, the first I sold back in

Eleanors frame after a renovation looks fab. Sprayed in Megenta flam and with a lemon pearl barbers pole and head tube and white gothic transfers.

Hello All, I just wanted to send a photo of my finished frame, built up. The components are all Campagnolo, mainly Centaur with some Chorus and Record. I'm still fine tuning my positioning, and have only ridden it out on the road once, but so far it is great. Incredible quality, and you did an

Hello guys, finally I' ve take time to send you a picture for your blog of my Audax Special. It' s simply great, last year we do togheter a 1000k randonnée in south of Italy and the feeling was amazing, the Reynolds 725 tubing are light and responsive. The picture is taken on the Garda' s Lake in

The above pictures have been sent in by Allen and below is part of his email .

Maurice sent this picture in earlier in the year not much in the way of detail from Maurice but this is a part of his email :- Taking a rest by the Via Cassia, Toscana, on the Pilgrim Route from Canterbury to Rome. My entry for the ctc competition - Hope you like it as much as I did.

Mikes bike pulling a trailer in the show. As you can see its running a belt drive. This drive system is becoming popular and makes for a clean and quiet / smooth transmission. Mike writes in his email the following :- With 32c Schwalbe Marathons - great tires - and SKS 45c fenders, there is the righ