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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.

The workshop is extremely busy at the moment and here we have a few frames ready for the final top coat. Please note the new lime green flamboyant in the foreground which has a very bright finish and the Gios blue Mercian in the back ground. These frames will be making there way to customers later i

We do a lot of wheel repairs both for the customer and trade alike. Re-building into a new rim is a popular request ( the rims are softer nowadays for certain ). Overhauling a hub is also done on a frequent basis. Please remember to grease the hubs as often as you can. It will prolong your hubs life

We have a large range of racks in stock both front and rear. Topeak and Tubus being the main two which customers specify when ordering a complete bike. When you order your complete bike why not have the rack sprayed to match your frame. When they have been done the overall effect is quite pleasing.

Something a little different today. This is Derek's one of the frame builders new ! ! ! ! car its a 1947 ( I think he said ) Frogeye sprite. Derek has a love for open top motors and this one certainly is open to the world. He took me for a spin in it the other day and its like riding a skate board w

A shot of a Vigorelli just before completion . This bike will find its way to London and soon be cruising the streets of the capitol .

Here we have a Vincitore special shell being mocked up and worked on by Derek. As you can see from the picture the spear points are welded to the shell first then the tubes are brazed into place this helps stiffen the frame . The plates on the chainstays still have to be cut into shape at this point

Another lovely bike here which will soon be picked up by a long time Mercian fan . Its a Vincitore special built with Reynolds 853 pro team tubing. This one is built with Campagnolo record equipment and finished with Profile carbon bars and Easton wheels.

We had this Velocita in today which requires a little work (bearings in the bottom bracket are noisy) so while the going was good took a shot of it in the work stand. Campagnolo record equipment with carbon Mavic wheels very nice indeed.

Because of our work with Paul Smith we have a range of exclusive clothing made by the world famous fashion designer. We have a good range of T shirts and Jerseys available. If you fancy a designer T shirt with our early advertisement please call our shop to order. These are a strictly limited item.

Just in the stock room today and found these talk about the good old days. We only have corti (small) so do not bombard the shop with requests for Campagnolo toe clips. I can remember buying my first pair of these and bolting them to my Super record track pedals . Then going for a ride to make a mar

We just had a few sets of the new Reynolds 531 tube. They are a strict limited edition run from Reynolds and come complete with the transfer of course. We have only just had them so no prices yet of a frame but I will post it once we have worked it out. This will be a frame for the enthusiast.

While I was in the spray shop today these two Flying Scot frames came out the oven and I thought you would like a look. The two frames here are almost finished and ready for the customers. The cream one will be built into a complete bike at the shop and the green is being delivered to a customer in