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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.

If your in London it might be a idea to have a look in the Victoria & Albert museum. They have a exhibition on at the moment called Fashion Vs Sport. As part of exhibition you will see one of our bikes we built for Paul Smith's design team. These bikes have not been seen by the public as they where

Well the day we have all been dreading has dawned John has left us. He has worked for us in excess of 20 years and in that time made a lot of customers frame dreams come true. I and all of us at Mercian wish you all the best. Surf's up John .

First of all sorry for the the lack of posts just recently I have been so busy. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible as they say. I promise to get my act together as soon as I can. Interviews for the shop job starts tomorrow so I'll be posting a picture of the new worker soon.

We are having some trouble with the shop shutter. It makes the shop look shut but we are open our normal times.

Not a lot to say today really only that I have started a Facebook page. Try and find it. I will when possible try and post a link to it so it should be easier to find. Take a look anyway on Mercian Cycles ltd . Hope you find it and post a picture and a few words.

The other day we had a visit from these lads ( Brent, Lyndon, Adri and Ant) . Well I hear you say whats so good about that. Well they came from Australia thats whats good about that. They had a tour of the workshop and spray shop and all found it very interesting and where amazed how much work goes

Meet Mr Fox he has made his home at the back of the shop and sleeps on the flat roof of the workshop. We see him most days and he is quite cheeky. The other day he just wandered into the workshop to have a look around ! When we have a bite to eat and have left overs we always through them on the roo

Just thought you would like to see a picture of this customer (Tony) who came from the Orkney Island today to collect his bike. He will be stopping down here with family for the evening before traveling home tomorrow. He flew down a few months ago to go through the order with John . We do get people

These forks are in our opinion one of the best on the market. If we have a customer who wishes for a carbon fork we would recommend these. One problem there is no mudguard clearance. There are carbon forks which we can supply with mudguard clearance but only then with short reach brakes.

The majority of the tools we have at the shop are obviously professional standard but the kit we use the most is this tool kit made by Campagnolo. It does all the jobs very well indeed. From chasing threads to making sure the rear dropouts are parallel ( the biggest reason you break rear axles).

Well it's my first day back from a short break and found the very sad news that Ian has been killed on one of his journeys across our small planet. This to me is a very sad time, he was a very good customer of ours, always calling in our shop on the way to one of his adventures to have a chat and to

I know its not the best shot in the world but this is Jeff's bench where all the ergo levers are repaired. It's where I do the wheel builds as well as the wheel repairs the VAR wheel jig is by the way the best wheel jig you can get its very solidly built and adjustable for all wheel sizes . Ive eve