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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 a small clip showing Sir Paul Smith with his Mercian track bike click here. I'm sure you will like it !!

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,

Thank you for all your pictures over the past few days while I've been off line. In the mean time look at the link below, I think you will enjoy it. Next stop Hollywood!

Sorry for any delay in updating the blog but I'm having network problems. I'll update as soon as I can. In the mean time please keep sending in your pictures they will be posted. Thanks to everyone who already has.

I'm slowly running out of pictures sent in by our customers and I could do with more. So if you fancy seeing your bike on the blog please do send one in.

This was sent to me some time ago now Phil lives in the U.S.A and below is part of his letter. My bike arrived today and all I can say is WOW. And of course I can't wait to get her built and take her for that first ride. The detail and craftsmanship are everything I hoped for. My Mercian is an inc

A 753 here sent to Kirsten in New Zealand 2 years ago now. I must say looks rather nice as well. Lets hope its racking up the miles.

This photo was sent to me by Raffaello. I have to phone him to take a order and I do not speak Italian this order is going to be interesting...

This bike as you can see is well looked after. Mainly built with Campagnolo record and super record equipment it looks a treat. Below is a sample of Mr Richards letter. I own a Mercian "Professional" that you built and custom fitted for me in 1987. I purchased it through "WORLD CYCLE" in Dallas,

We recently had a visit from the BBC they are doing a short program about the company for bike week. You will be able to see it on the box soon.

We are now dealers for the American Classic wheels. There is quite a range of these wheels so pop in the shop and have a look. They are very nice indeed. Available with Campag and Shimano cassette body.

If your after a track frame we do have a few in stock including this 56cm c-t with a 55cm top tube in silver poly and black transfers and lug lining. If you fancy it give the shop a call.