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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.

Gav has just put this together for display in the shop. I thought you would like a look at it before it goes on display. No mudguard clearance gives this bike a sporty look. Please note the chrome work and the track end adjusters.

This is a picture of a customers request for the frame Builder, sprayer and frame finisher ( Derek , Rob and Phil) name to be on the frame. I think it looks really good but in reality its very hard to do indeed. Thats why everyone asked me not to put it on the blog.

Here we have a picture sent in to me by Chris from Boston , Mass USA and I have put a quote from his letter below :- I have been riding the new Mercian Audax Special for a few weeks, but only yesterday did I finally have a chance for a long ride, and to try it out off-pavement, both on dirt roads a

Please find attached two pictures of my vincitore special track which I took last summer just after I had received it and put it together. needless to say the bike has been great, I changed to a fizik arione saddle after not really getting on with the B17 special; otherwise it is the same (despite a

Dave and Lydia sent me this email some time ago now. I have cut and copied there email for you to read. We bought the tandem over 16 years ago now after spending hours with Geof at the showroom discussing our requirements. Clocked 60mph once downhill in the Goyt valley/Peak district with absolutely

I quote from carls email . Attached picture of my wife and her Audax Special somewhere in between Attersee and Gmunden in the Austrain lake district (Salzkammergut). I have a matching bike and we think they are the most comfortable bikes ever. Best money we ever spent. This year we flew into Slazbur

We had this photo sent to us some time ago now but at last its on the blog sorry for the delay. The picture was taken looking over the Rhine in southern Germany byKen and Hilary fromNuneaton, Warwickshire.

Mr Pete W sent us this picture some time ago now of his tandem . He purchased the bike in 1993/4 and has just up graded it to a 10spd triple.

Sorry for the lack of updates or replies to emails over the past few days. My so called Jesus phone (iPhone) has packed up. It does not receive the signal from O2, my service provider over here in the UK, so I took it back to the store, where you would have thought they could have sorted the problem

Another quick note, I married Jane last Thursday after a 26 year engagement...

Ill be sorting in the next week or so all the pictures that customers have sent in by email . Sorry to all those who have in the past sent them in and not been posted on the blog. (I've found them again). If you do not see your's please get in touch!

Ian has been good enough to send us this picture of his 953 track bike which we recently built for him. Ian has a stable of our bikes and this is the latest. Built with Mavic wheels ,Campag chainset and tri-bars this machine has definitely been built for a particular job.