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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.

Derek had this afternoon off so I sneaked a picture of his tidy bench. A customers frame half done on the board and other frame parts scattered around the bench. Theres plenty on the go. By the way I just put a couple of pictures on the Derby Photo site I have. Theres a link on this page somewhere.

This frame when finished will look stunning. Its off to the finishers tomorrow for surface preparation. The customer wants a brushed stainless look to certain parts of the frame. I will post a picture of the finished article when its completely finished.

Ian wanted to fit mudguards to his racing bike so he brought the frame in. We indented the seat tube so the rear mudguard could be squeezed in. As you can see it works a treat.

Greetings from Okinawa, Japan, Here is a photo of my Mercian Vincitore Special conquering a lava flow in front of the Cape Zanpa lighthouse--30 miles north of Naha City, Okinawa. Thought maybe you would like to add this to the other photos of my Mercian in the owner's gallery--this proves that it

Well I tried setting up a face book Mercian account but its all to complicated for me. But there is a Mercian Cycles Appreciation Society on face book I have just become a member so please take a look there might be just a few mates on it you never know. Its run by a chap called Graham Dawson. Ther

Took delivery at Easter this year and used bike to cycle 2400miles over 40 days starting May 20th. Left Lands End and cycled up to John O Groats over Peak District, Yorkshire dales and Pennines. Met wife at JOG and we cycled around the Orkneys together and then both back to Lands End. Bike behaved b

Hi,

We try and re-cycle most things at the shop and workshop. The van had a load the other day to be weighed in. There is a few frames worth of repairs in that box.

Good news all sorted ...

i've had my custom mercian super vigorelli stolen (serial number 13591). it's a unique bike, and (i think) a complete custom job. it has an aero wedge headtube and the seatstays are joined (see pics). i'm completely gutted, i love this bike.

Not the best photos in the world but I have been in the spray shop today just looking through our Very large collection of old and Vintage transfers so I thought you would like a look at some. Our renovation service can supply transfers if there available for most age of frame. A lot of the very ear

Above is a part Davids Mercian collection of 2000 Prolugless with TT config (56000 miles), 1974 Super Vigorelli (orginal paint & I have 12,000 plus miles plus my brother with more), 2004 Prolugless with 41,000 miles. Frames are all the same tirangle measurements. 1974 was orginally ordered in