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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.

Dear Mercian team, I just wanted to say a big thank you to all of you. I am absolutely delighted with my Mercian 853 Pro Team frame and forks. It looks and rides superbly - a total blast downhill, comfortable on a 100 mile sportive and a great climbing bike even with full mudguards! The way you adap

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My second Mercian, 20 years old, still going strong and handles like a dream, in its native Derbyshire hills on the way from Gloucestershire to Cape Wrath in 2014. The last few miles out to the end beyond the ferry are a bit rugged (the ferryman said I’d need a “mountain bike” whatever that is) but

Hello,

Hi Mercian Cycles,Here's my King of Mercia that I've just finished rebuilding. I've not even ridden her yet. I'm not sure what year the frame is, maybe you know by looking at it.

Hi,

Good afternoon from Germany,pls find attached some pictures for your gallery of my Mercian bike (King of Mercia?) with the frame-number 21787, bought by Vaumax in Hamburg end of the eighties.The pictures had been taken in our garden in Elmshorn (40 km in the north of Hamburg) and last weekend on a t

I've attached a picture of me with the bike I have built up from frame I had cleaned and repainted in January.  I've only been able to take it out for a short ride, but it feels (and looks) great.

Hello Mercian

We bought it from a lady near stone henge, it had belonged to her father who had died 7 or 8 years before. I think he was the second owner. I completely stripped & serviced it, re-greased every bearing & polished the frame. I replaced cables, tyres, chains, bar tape & saddles. But most of the rest i

Michael sent us this collection of photos for your perusal. Both machines where re-sprayed by us. Thank you for your great pictures.