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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 having a sale of a few old stock and cancelled order frames to make way for new frames coming through the system

This is a quick look at things to come !!! I know its not quite right but its a test. Let me have your thoughts ,,,,,

Gary was good enough to send this shot in the other day showing off his Mercian. Hardly an action shot, but here is a picture of me and my 1997 Strada Special in Southwark park, London. Thanks for the wonderful job you did some months ago of removing the stuck seat pin and giving it a thorough servi

Yet another picture from Ireland ( there must be something in the air ) . This picture was sent to me by Chris who is one of our most dedicated Mercian riders. And below is the letter which was sent in by Chris.

Thank you Simon for your picture its the only one we have had since the call for action shots so lets hope it spurs people on. His email simple said Please find picci of Canyon and me - 2008 Dyfi Enduro.... enough said

We do not get many pictures of bikes in action so above is one sent in by Phil from Ireland . Here's an old photo's scanned recently which I like. It's me on my Custom Superlight ( my third Mercian ) in the 1984 All Ireland Triathlon. I doubt you built many Superlights shorter and tighter than this

Neal sent this picture of his track bike and I must say it looks very nice. Below is a few words from his letter. I finally have my Super Vigorelli all put together. I think it looks marvelous and though I'd share (note the saddle height is a bit high in the pic, but my lighting was poor by the tim

Just a quick note. We are in the final stages of our new web site build. The photos and letters you send for this blog will also now be saved for posting in the all new web site gallery.

Here's a picture of my recently built-up Audax Special. I received it about 4 weeks ago, and it has quickly become my favorite bike. It's light, nimble, rides incredibly smoothly, and is gorgeous to boot. I couldn't be happier with it.

This came through the post the other day and we are all really chuffed. We save as many stamps as we can and send them off to the R.S.P.B to help with there Albatross campaign.

A picture sent in by Chris from Ireland earlier in the week. He bought the 19.5 " frame for his wife Susan earlier this year while on holiday over here. A good find this 1984 second hand frame as its one of the early ones with the twin lateral top tubes which are no longer available. It is running

We are really busy in the spray shop at the moment with both renovation work and new frames. This shot is of a selection of forks in various degrees of finish which obviously tie up with the frames which are being worked on.