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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.

Just though you would like to see this complete bike with a rather snazzy paint job built with Reynolds 631 tubing and Campagnolo equipment with our own hand built wheels.

Above is the design board which we work to when we are spraying and building the Paul Smith touring bikes. We also have one for the track bikes. As you will see the designers have supplied a Pantone colour which Rob mixes by eye. We do not work in Pantone so the swatches come in handy. A couple of

An overdue word of thanks from California. I took delivery on a King of Mercia in May. The bicycle is magnificent. I asked a lot of you and your staff. I'm tall and the bike fits my 6-foot-4 frame perfectly. It does everything I've asked of it, from fast rides in the country to short tours to commut

Thank you Tarquin for the picture of you track bike. Another London enthusiast. We had to spray this frame to match his favourite car the Ford GT40. Brooks saddle and tape and the aggressive track stem all add up to a nice piece of kit.

Meet the Beast. Kept in the garage most of the time but its unleashed mainly on Wednesdays when it transports the frames from the workshop to the shop for customers to collect. Its a old Suzuki which most of the work force seem take the mickey out of for some reason !!!!!

Thank you Troy for your photo

Tony had today off so I took the opportunity to take a picture of his tidy bench. It amazes me how he knows where all his tools are but I suppose hes been working here for a few years now.

This tool kit gets some hammer at the shop. Its used every day without fail. All frame tapping and facing can be carried out with this set. The tools themselves are the best in my opinion we could not do without them. The shop can order you one if you want one but get your credit card ready ( there

A spray shop shot here. The track frame in the foreground ( I think this frame will be in Japan soon ) is built with Reynolds oversize tubing although hard to see in the picture is quite a noticeable increase in tubing diameter and is built with cast lugs.This tubing is becoming very popular indeed

This is my bike.1980. Renovated in 1991 with BRG and a few alterations but otherwise in original condition cycling the lanes of Herefordshire mostly.Any way if you would like to upload it to the photographic section I would be most pleased.Brett Thank you Brett for you photo the bike looks very

Well I'm unable to update AGAIN due to the people at Virgin. They tell me I should be online on Monday, "we will see".

We have been asked to supply wheels for a Paul Smith window display which you can see if your in Paris. Its going to be on display for the next week or so.