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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.

Today was John's first day with us in the shop. A new member who has plenty of experience in the triathlete scene and a keen bike rider of course. It was a bit of a quiet day for us in the shop but helped to ease John into the shop roll. I,m sure he will be a valued member to the Mercian team.

Just had this picture sent in by Kelley one of our customers abroad. We had a nice email and a few pictures and I though you would like to see his bike. It look's nice and sunny there so no excuses for not getting out on it unlike here where the weather is getting slowly worse as winter takes grip.

This is a customers bike ready for the off. As you can see the bike has a Rohloff hub with the disc brake incorporated ( I think it is a Avid brake operated by cable ) this is his only rear brake . The gears are operated by a grip made by a German company especially for dropped bar. Also a dynamo fr

I have had a request for a picture of our red 953 so here it is. Sorry about the picture quality but its the only one I have. We have a couple going through our workshop right now so when there ready I will post a better picture. Most once built have Reynolds carbon forks.

Well it's getting cool now in the mornings and time to dig out the winter gear ready for the bad weather. We do a large range of the Campagnolo autumn /winter clothing which we feel is very good value indeed. We do stock all sorts of clothing which will keep you warm and dry in the coming months. No

Well today was great we had Chris Floyd the fabulous world renowned photographer at the workshop who was doing a photo shoot for a magazine Management Today which will be on the shelves in November. Chris was very patient with us all and put us all at ease. You can see his work here www.chrisfloyd.c

Firstly we have a picture send in by John of South Africa displaying the Table mountain in the background and his new Mercian in the foreground. As you can see the frame is decked out with Shimano equipment. The frame colour was inspired by the Italian Gios Torino manufacturer. I for one think it lo

This lovely frame belongs to Ben "skully" from London. Because we are having a new web site built ( dont hold your breath) we are unable to down load customers pictures so here is one to be going on with . I have another to post from South Africa tomorrow. As you can see its got lots of period equip

In the Sunday Times yesterday the 5th October was an article in the style supplement regarding the cycling increase throughout England and there main picture was of a group of guys and gal's from the tweed cc and one of our bikes. Emerald green with white bands on the seat tube and gold transfers.

Its time to stock take here at the shop and workshop (it,s not a nice job but someone has to do it) . Anyway while I was in the garage I came across one of the old advert sign. It,s been hand painted of course and may just have been done by one of the workers . I think it would have dated back to th

No it,s not modern art its part of the snap room wall. Over the years this wall is slowly being filled with fruit labels apples , oranges etc. This wall must be 12 foot long and its all like this.

This was sent into me by one of our American friends. I have told him it,s not quite this here now! Please take a look at the videos on there they are great http://www.countrybicycle.com/