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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.

Not the most picturesque of shots but this is a small part of the 29er we are slowly getting together. Its going to be Reynolds O/S 725 and we have no idea to the colour yet. Give it a few months and it should be up and running. Just ready for summer hopefully.

Hi, as you are running out of photos I thought I would send you this one of my pro lugless which you made for me last year and I built up with campag gear. It's a real stunner as I'm sure you'll agree and it rides like a dream. Thanks, Matt, Portslade, East Sussex. Thank you Matt for your photo sen

At last a Bill ! Well Bill sent this picture in from America towards the middle of last year. He did not sent in much detail regarding equipment etc but it is a Audax and looks like 631 tubing.

I wanted to share some pics of my Mercian Vincitore Special that I have finally built up. This was built by Derek Land around 2003 just before Reynolds stopped making 531 tubing, and it had been patiently waiting since that time for me to put to put all the parts on it. The parts are a great mix o

Mr Glover picked up his Rohloff / Reynolds 853 Strada Special complete bike just before christmas ( and bad weather ) This is his second Mercian and a fan through and through. His other bike is a Rohloff full on touring King of Mercia. This frame has a sportier build. The Frame has been sprayed Ap

Well that was the end of 2009. Where all back from holidays etc so the blog will be up and running again very soon. Thank you for your patience. Hope you had a good one and we wish you all a Happy New Year.

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Josh sent us this picture of the bike now built and ready for use. I have attached a passage from his letter he sent into us the other day. I absolutely love it, it's fantastic. When I first took it out I was really curious to see how it would fit, and I was not disappointed. In fact, it was totally

Just a quick note we have a couple of frames on eBay. ( grab yourself a bargin ) also some nice Campagnolo parts amongst other items.www.mercianblog.com www.merciancycles.co.uk www.merciancycles.com MercianDerby on TwitterShop phone number +44 (0)1332 752468 iPhone

Chris has come up with the goods again. Yet another classic. I love these . The comments in the last post says it all Mr Helms was a genius and will be missed by all in the cycling world.

This has to be the BEST Mercian advert I've seen up to now and I think you will agree. If you have any early adverts like this please send them in I would love to see them. Chris sent me this from his Mercian Flicker site. I will post a like to his site when I can fathom out how to do it.

Jeff got back earlier this week and still is over the moon with the experience.Theres plenty of stories to tell and all good. I have a feeling it will not be long before he is looking at the same scene again.