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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.

Ok yesterday in the comment I was asked by John is it ok to clamp a frame by a top tube in a frame jig . Well the easy answer to this is of course yes. But what do you use to protect the frame I here you all cry out in unison. Well the pictures show how its done . We used to use just a leather stri

We have here a King of Mercia track frame slowly being put together for a customer. This one has the barbers pole which seems to becoming very popular. This one has the new Mich track chainset and matching seat pin which you can just see in the picture. I have been thinking about doing a short revi

Well not a great picture today but its a shot of our frame workshop when everyone has gone home. I have been too busy to take a picture from the shop today but I will post a picture hopefully tomorrow if I get a chance. I have been catching up with the shop emails over the past 2 days but I am now

The day was spent at the workshop today mostly sorting out our shot blaster but all is well and it is working a treat. The photo has a tandem frame close to completion. The frame once built will be put together with most of the components to check they all fit properly. Once we are happy with that

Well first of all I must say congratulations to all our lads and lasses at the Olympics. Especially the cycling team of all disciplines . The track riders where a wonder to watch and of course world class. I for one wish them luck in the future. The team pursuit was amazing to watch and by far my fa

I should have told you yesterday but I have a couple of weeks off work and sunning it up. If I get chance i will do the odd post for you all but not every night. I'll be back....as the saying goes.

Another bike being built with the black Campagnolo equipment. This one is a King in a very striking black with a white barbers pole and head tube please note the new vinyl gothic transfer.

Just a quick shot of the Campagnolo race triple equipment being assembled to a Audax ruby red frame. This complete bike will be ready and waiting for a customer to collect this coming Saturday. Just right for a sunday ride in the sun.

Not just a track bike this one it has a freewheel on the other side of the Phil Wood rear hub. This is the reason it is running two brakes. The Strada special frame has the option to fit a rear rack as well as long mudguards making it a ideal day ride and commuting bike.

Not the most entertaining picture in the world but I keep getting asked for a picture of our Rohloff dropouts so here it is. With these chain adjustment is a doddle and you do not need that horrid anchor plate onto the chainstay. Once the wheel is in place its all very neat indeed. These dropouts ca

The Paul Smith bikes both track and road for though,s people who have not seen one is a special edition made for the world famous designer Sir Paul Smith. If you travel the world you would have seen these bikes in some of his boutiques from London, Hong Kong , Russia and America to name a few. They

Super 953 . This is a great set of super lightweight stainless steel tubes made by Reynolds it rivals titanium for weight. Keep a eye out for our new web site ( on line very soon ) for prices. We have just built to order a Very special track frame for a discerning customer of ours which will be sent