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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.

I'd like to say a big thank you for my Strada Speciale frameset. It is perfect. I have ridden it a little bit and it fits and rides beautifully. A very pleasant and smooth feel. A big compliment to your builders for such excellent workmanship! For your perusal, A photo of the completed bike is atta

I wanted to share with photos of my completed Mercian Olympic restoration. I'm really pleased with the way everything has turned out, despite some last minute glitches, but now everything is sweet, with great road manners. Its got pride of place in my collection and gets used for sunny Sunday jaunts

As promised here's a few shots of the professional. It's a mix of old and new school parts, looks straight out of the 80's from a distance... Gently-used old school campy record pedals and long-reach brakes. NOS super record front derailleur, seatpost, and late-vintage, non-fluted super record crank

Hello everyone else at Mercian!

Ive waited years to be able to have a Mercian. Thanks for the brilliant work of art that you have created for me. Already covered a couple of hundred miles in the first couple of weeks and its perfect. The clover lugs have given me something to look at as Ive climbed up one or two of the famous Pea

This picture has come all the way from San Francisco . The bike belongs to Timothy. The frame is finished in our Deep plum pearl.

The first picture you see is an insert for use with a belt drive system which seems to becoming popular. The second is the keeping rings for S&S couplers. These keeper rings are changed just before the spray shop and of course before delivery to the customer.

The 23" frame/forks feature original chrome & graphics with Campagnolo dropouts, wrapover seat cluster with allen head fastening and a typical twin plate fork crown drilled with provision for a front brake. 39" wheelbase, 16" chainstays, 11" b/brkt height. Components include Campy b/brkt axle & c

Just a quick post showing not only 3 ugly mugs but part of our new clothing range.

Here's a few frames which are waiting for the transfers to be fitted before the final coat of varnish. A few track frames amongst them and some very nice colour schemes.

I just wanted to say a massive thank you for my wonderful bike.

Please find attached a photo of my 653 Pro Lugless which you built for me back in 94. It was Veloce equipped, but over many years use it's now a bit of a mish mash with Record headset, a Chorus brake lever and Centaur crank. It's still very much a Mercian though! This picture was taken in July last