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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.

We are making room for more Mercian frames in the shop and this is one of two Merlin Titanium frames we have to move to make way. ( we also have a track Ridley and Ridley cheeta to move on ). As you can see its a 51.5 cm centre to top Works CR frame and fork. We are selling this on at £1,575.00 plu

I was sorting the old laptop out the other day and found this picture. Its a few bikes we have built for Paul Smith and as you can see where built with Reynolds 531 tubing (I think the anniversary tube set which we still have) and by the way the dots where supposed to be off circle before someone sa

After some spray shop improvements we should soon be able to offer a quicker turn around times on re-sprays. Do not forget its not only Mercian frames we re-finish all manufacturers are catered for. This is just a fill in picture for you all of our shop in Alvaston. I have been so busy just recentl

Heres a really nice book for Xmas especially for all you fixed wheel nuts out there. There is a few pictures of our Paul Smith machines as well as other exotica. Written by Andrew Edwards & Max Leonard

Thank you Josh. We had a similar picture when Josh ordered his frame earlier in the year outlining the frame finish he would like and now he has it he sent us this picture . We have never seen a picture like it and hope the build goes well. Thank you

Just a few of the frames (new and renovation) ready for customers to collect this coming Saturday

Well this is Jeff my work colleague for the past 30 odd years. The picture was taken one day before his trip to Everest base camp . An extreme walking holiday which I'm a bit jealous of I must admit. When he returns he will be officially retired but will be working with us for 2 days a week . So all

Not 1 but 2 pictures for you today. As you can see its pictures of a small part of our early Campagnolo spares. Mostly from the early Nuovo Record days theres even a few Delta bits in this lot somewhere. Brakes, Gears and bottom bracket bits you name it. So if you get that part off ebay and theres a

Just thought you would like to see this rather special Vincitore Special. It has a lot of frame and spray work which was specified by the customer. We are sure this will make a splendid complete machine.

Its a quick look around the shop for you all. If you would like to see a short film from anywhere else please let me know. I have a nice Vincitore track frame picture for later ....

Piam from West End Bicycles in Houston one of our state side dealers sent us this picture of his Vigorelli. All that sun and mudguards ! It certainly looks very nice ( with No brakes ? ). Hopefully will be racking up the miles with some brakes on. This picture and others of the bike sent in by Piam

You can find our videos on you tube. When i sort out how to put a link to them i will !!