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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.

Reynolds to celebrate there 110 year of tube manufacturing has released a limited number of 531 tube sets of which we have a few. They are the 531 competition tube. We can build these into any of our frames. If you would like to reserve a set please call our shop on the normal number

These Paul Smith bikes where built for a very good customer of ours who last year had a 60th Anniversary bike. Both of these will be used on a regular basis for day rides and the trip to and from work.

This caught my eye in the spray shop today its a chromed Vincitore fork crown. Its going to be a complete bike so I will post a picture as soon as its done.

A quick glimpse of the new vinyl gothic transfer. These within reason can be made to match the colour of any bands you have on your frame. We have the technology to also have your name/club/nickname on the top tube in most fonts as well. We have the artwork from many manufacturers both new and old.

There is a bit of good news around especially if your outside the U.K. Due to the exchange rate and you have always been hankering after a Mercian it may be worth checking your exchange rate to U.K pounds. Its not good news for us of course but now might be the time to place your order. With a depos

I have been asked in a earlier comment to post a picture of our shop Vigorelli . Well here it is in all its glory in Green poly with gold block transfers and black lug lining. Its equipment is Mich chainset and Mavic open pro rims and stainless spokes. Nitto bars, stem and seat pin with a Brooks ti

Well here you have it our latest design. We have had this on the back burner ( haha ) for some time . I would like to thank Dave for the design . You should see one in the shop soon ( hehe)

Another track bike almost ready for the road ( just needs fine tuning) As you can see this one has straight bars and I think it looks cool. Two brakes as it has a freewheel as well and with no mudguard clearance to give it that sporty look . It will be on its way the London later in the week to crui

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We got it done. Gav the shop manager put the bike together today ready for the customer. Im sure he will be happy with the result.

A lovely looking Vincitore special frame built from Reynolds 725 tubing with a nice helping of chrome for good measure. We have to get this ready for xmas as the customer wants it to ride over the holiday. So it will be all hands on deck tomorrow.

Here is the other side to the frame which Phil was holding in a earlier post. As you can see its a completely different colour. This is a difficult and time consuming paint job. The customer has based it on our Paul Smith design. The bike although is for a London customer my just find its way over t