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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.

A Velocita being checked on one of the frame boards. As you see its not quite finished as the rear part of the frame to take the carbon has not been added just yet. The carbon is covered for protection during build. Once this frame part has been added it off to the spray shop for its coats of paint

We would like to welcome our latest dealer Push Cycles to the Mercian dealer list. All you mad for cycling peeps in the London area should take a look. I'm sure the guys there will give you a very warm welcome. They do have a few frames including a Vigorelli ( our track model ).

I am sending a couple of pictures of my new Mercian. I've now had it out on a number of long rides and countless shorter ones, and I can say that it handles wonderfully! My last ride was around 70 miles with about 6500 feet of climbing. The bike is very responsive, yet never harsh. One 3-mile se

We have a picture here which Derek ( one of our frame builders ) sent me of his green garden machine. As you can see he seems very proud of his garden exhibit. Its a old Raleigh with baskets made by Derek to take the flower pots. It looks great and might pinch the idea myself.

Hi Kate Carl asked me to post this picture for you of your new bike. Hope you like what you see. Send me a picture when your out and about on it. Grant

My Audax Special, Veloce-equipped (which I purchased from you in 2003) in the snow at Market Rasen as part of Sustran's NCN1 ride at Easter 2008. The snow begain to thaw at midday and I was able to ride over the Wolds to Barton on Humber where I camped again. It certainly was cold but the bike was f

This is 'Mouse', my King of Mercia touring bike bought at the tail end of 2008. I took this just yesterday on a quick but tiring ride in the hills around Lancaster, you can see Morecambe Bay and the Lake District in the background. I've kitted the bike out to be as traditional as possible, but not

Hi Guys, I've just got back into cycling after a 30 year gap, and looked up this photo. Sorry it's not great quality, but it's me in around 1975 (at the age of about 14/15) as a keen schoolboy cyclist with the bike I'd just put together, obviously with one of your frames! Hugely proud as you can

Leigh sent me this photo somewhere in the middle of nowhere. All is going well besides a few punctures. You can follow him on the 360 link found on this blog. Below is a small excerpt from his letter.

Chris sent me this picture a few weeks ago now of his wife's and his bike on a day trip in Ireland. As you can see Susan's bike is one of the early twin lateral Miss Mercian frames. This is a couple of there large collection of Mercian frame's/bikes. His email is below :- This is two of our Mercian'

Justin sent me this photo some time ago now and below is a insert from his email. hi mercian folk

Phil our frame finisher with his lads Ryan and Ben when they poped in the other day to have a look around. ( couldn't tell you time they came in though )