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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.

1950s Head Badge 

Hi, Thought you might like this picture of me taking my 2001 Mercian Audax ( which I've owned from new ) up Alpe D'Huez in May 2012.

Hi,

This is my "new" Mercian.  Rescued from a local bike shop, on consignment, and lovingly restored.  It's a 1987, King of Mercia with a Campy Athena Group.  The bike isn't perfect, having clearly been a working machine...but it rides sensationally, is lighter than expected (531c tubing) and is now in

Helllo Carl and all at Mercian,

Hi

 Here are two photos of my beautiful 1954 Mercian that you refurbished for me last year. The frame was bought dirt cheap on Ebay without forks, and in a very sorry state. It took  months of scanning Ebay daily to find a suitable pair of forks. The parts are mainly period correct, but because it is m

At last Merino wool long sleeve jerseys. With the Mercian script lettering on the front and the early advert as a patch on one of the 3 pockets on the back. They really are fab quality items. The sizes are Medium 42" chest, Large 44" chest and X/Large 46" chest. We do not have a lot of these so be q

Stu Baird, Pennsylvania, USA

Hi Guys,Here's a few pictures of my custom Vincitore Special that I purchased in Christmas 2010. It's taken me a long time to get it built up, but I took it out today for it's maiden voyage and was really impressed. I love it. Thanks for the great job on the frame, excellent quality both in workmans

Dear Mercian,

Above are a couple of nice pictures of a early Superlight. A frame we no longer make and it look's in great condition.