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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.

Dear Mercian,

As you can see its not only adults frames we re-spray. Apparently this small frame which obviously belongs to Donald has been handed down through the club to up and coming young cyclists. Donald had a bit of frame work carried out and chose his own colour with his name each side the down tube.

Well many of you have asked and here it is Sven's 953. Built to order with Reynolds oversize 953 tubing with polished stainless head lugs, crown and vertical dropouts. Sprayed in a off white and black panels ( to customers order ). A Chris King A- head set is the final finishing touch . This is trul

Two pictures today with two completely different finishes. The blue one has a satin finish. It looks good on Enamels, flamboyants and pearls. This type of finish can be applied to all our colours ( at no extra charge ). The white frame is Reynolds 953 and as you can see has highly polished head t

Something a little different today. We have been having a sort out in the office and we came across this old map. Unfortunately there is no date on it but as you can see it certainly has some history. Anyone any idea to the date of this map ?

Please find attached picture of my vincitore special track which I took last summer just after I had received it and put it together. needless to say the bike has been great, I changed to a fizik arione saddle after not really getting on with the B17 special; otherwise it is the same (despite a coup

Justine a very good customer of ours sent in this picture of ONE of her bikes. Yet another frame is slowly working its way through our workshop right now. Thanks for the picture and hope you enjoy the new frame when it arrives

A couple of pictures sent to us from the states. Below is a few words from the owner Hi,

The customer wanted their renovation to be pink. With some discussion we came up with the design you see here with the stars and all which we can do for a small fee on any frame. Its boxed up now and on its way to the customer who will shortly be building it up for summer rides.

This is our OLD shot blaster. This thing is powerful very powerful. You do NOT put your hand in there without proper gloves on. From renovation work to cleaning up jobs to work on it gets some serious use most days. As you can see its not in the cleanest room at the workshop and certainly not the be

Hi,

This is Ian's latest frame a Velocita made from Reynolds 853 Pro Team. I think you will agree it looks very nice indeed.