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.
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.
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.
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.
Mark sent us a picture of his Strada overlooking the hills in Sydney Australia. At the time the photos was taken it was Autumn. ( not too hot we think )
We often take care of rare, old and unusual frames in the workshop for renovation, this Paris came in on behalf a customer from our oldest retail partners, Madgetts Cycles in Diss, Norfolk and was quite a memorable piece of work. This was a real labour of love, needed a lot of tlc and time to get it
A belated thank to all the guys at Mercian for my wonderful Strada Speciale frame. It was more than worth the wait! Such flawless paintwork ... I was scared to touch it! It has given me a wonderful summer of joy cycling around the quiet lanes of East Anglia.
Got this Raleigh banana respray from yourselves back to the original team colours it was in 1988.all original equipment with shimano 105 groupset.left round to my local bike shop Dave Kane in Belfast.had it all built up.it was that good.it was posted on there Facebook page.just through I would send
My Strada Speciale, built for me in 2013, just completed the 3,600km Transiberica bikepacking race with me. She was, and has always been, utterly flawless. Everyone on the race agreed that she was the most beautiful bicycle taking part.
My bike arrived about a week ago now and I wanted to write to say thanks. It really is a beautiful thing, even more so than I expected. I’ve taken it for a few short test rides so far and have never had so much fun on a bike in my life. It’s light and comfortable and feels confident on the road and