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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.

Please remember when you want your rear wheel rebuilt you take the freewheel off Before you cut the spokes out. It makes the wheel builders job very difficult to say the least. We have no way of holding the hub to remove the freewheel to get the spokes into the spoke holes. This one belongs to one

First of all sorry about the lack of a post last night I had to go out almost direct from work so had very little time on my hands. Anyway enough of the excuses lets get on with it. Ok not the best picture in the world but it does the job. As you see its one of our Velocita frames which come with De

For me it was a short day at the shop today. I had to take a couple of our bikes down to London for a photo shoot for leading mens style magazine. They will be at London for a few days while the photos are taken then I will go and pick them up and hopefully a few very nice photos.

This is John our main shop man and the surfer dude. The picture was sent in by Mercians biggest fan Chris from one of his many visits to our shop from Ireland. Chris has a great flickr site and definitely worth a look which I will try and link elsewhere on this site. (by the way Chris I have had

Just before I waffle on about the picture we have a vacancy in our shop details can be found at http://www.bikebiz.com/jobs/1094/retail-sales-person John wants to retire so he can go surfing all day but we will not let him go until we have a replacement to fill his boots. He is a tough act to follo

Meet Jeff The Ergo Man, if there is anything you need to know about ergos Jeff is the man. He is also our tandem man and has held 6 National Competition tandem Records. One of them lasted for 28 years - the mens 50 which he did with Richard. He was also in the first mixed team to break 50 minutes

Well this frame left us today on its way up to Scotland and I think it looks the business ( lucky Peter ). It has the new vinyl transfers which to my eyes look really nice. On a different tack we ( not me but our web builders) are working on a new web site which will soon be released to the unsuspec

First of all thank you Fred for your comment I will try and sort it. The email address is in my profile by the way. Today with help from Carl ( in the picture) was a frame checking day. We check all the custom/ stock frames before paint. I built another Rohloff wheel today (700c) I do like them they

Well at last we know what the new 11spd equipment is all about. As you can see the rear gears look very nice especially the super record rear gear. The Ergo lever looks very nice but dare I say it look,s a bit like S-Ram to me ! Well the total super record group should be about £1600.00 when it land

Just a picture today of a Vincitore track bike ( yet another track bike) being put together by Gav the shop manager. Jeff the ergo man has been looking at the Mercian blog today and I think he is about to put one together himself about the South Pennine Road Club if he does I will link it . I was ov

Today was the day to clean one of the spray booth,s Replace bearings in the fans and give the place a general sprucing. To say it was a mucky job would be a understatement .

As you can see Rob has had a really hard day at work today. It must have been all that spray booth cleaning a Rob hehe.