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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.

A picture of my Strada Special in front of the Thames Barges at Maldon quay, taken yesterday at our Friday forty miler midway stop.

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

Dereks Superlight has certainly found the nice weather for sure.

Hi everyone at Mercian Cycles,

Dan from the U.S.A sent us some nice photos the other day which we think you will like. His early racing days :)

David and his friends sent us a few pictures from U.S.A the other day for you to enjoy.

Michael has been busy building his Mercian Strada bike and has sent us the following pictures