Pedal Press

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.

This is a picture of my Mercian King of Merica 653 frame, which I was telling John about today, built up with a Campag Anthea 8 speed groupset; Cinelli bars and stem; Brooks Saddle and Mavic rims. I bought the frame secondhand and the rest of the bits came from eBay.

Quick Leigh update . This picture was sent to us earlier from on the road to Kashgar. He has been in touch by email for spares to be sent out . Chainring , Chain and Rohloff sprocket. Read more about his world tour here. You can also donate to the charity at this address.

The first Blog this year and Gary's email was short and sweet

Shop opening times over the Xmas period Friday 24th open 9 to 12 Saturday 25th CLOSED all day Sunday 26th CLOSED all day Monday 27th CLOSED all day Tuesday 28th CLOSED all day Wednesday 29th CLOSED all day Thursday 30th OPEN Friday 31st OPEN Saturday 1st January CLOSED all day Sunday 2nd Januar

Steve sent me these pictures of his Mercian collection I thought you would like to see.

Hi,

Well Jeff's come up with the goods yet again. Jeffs a avid photographer and dug out one of his film cameras which had a film in. He had it developed and look what he found. I've never seen a Mercian head badge before so this is certainly a rare item.

Jeff ( ergoman ) had a trip to the Derby magistrates court the other day. Only to see the Derby Gleam show of course not for a personal attendance. While he was there he took these pictures which was being projected onto the outside of the building. The show was from 7pm to 10pm and was a big hit he

This is Bart who had this bike completely renovated for his mate as a surprise present. The bike came to us in a bit of a state but we stripped the bike gave it a nice new coat of paint and rebuilt the bike to Bart's spec. His mate was over the moon with his surprise. While Bart was in Derby we were

Greetings from the USA, please see the attached photos of my new King Of Mercia, which I ordered from International Pro Bike Shop in Bellbrook Ohio back in May, and just took delivery of today. Just got back from a very short ride and I'm thrilled. The bike is my second KoM, the first I sold back in

We had a visit from the lads from Push Cycles ( on twitter @pushcycles ) from left to right Hassan, Mike and Ciaran from London the other day. Pictured here in the workshop with Tim , Derek and yours truly. I have a sneaking feeling they enjoyed the hours spent with us. You will see a few of our f

Well here's a couple of Mercian's where sure you'll like. A 60th Anniversary and a 953 Strada Special . Both these beauties are owned by Rob who has just finished building the 953 Strada . Thank you Rob for your pictures sent in