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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.

Hi Mercian,

Hi Mercian

Here's some pictures of my 1960 Mercian Superlight Vigorelli I've owned for twenty five years.

Hi,

Green KoM continues to bring great pleasure. Two Mercians at Pond Junction, Sherlock Row, Berkshire, Summer 2020.

The customers frame had snapped which we repaired and also added a front changer mount to the frame. It looks great in Light blue enamel

Please find attached the best shot at the moment. Made it today on a windy seashore of Tallinn.

I was looking at the Mercian website today, and thought you'd like a look at my trusty Vincitore Special, serial number 82984. I bought it secondhand from your shop as a refurbished frame sometime in the 1990s. You built it up for me, including the wheels, and it was immediately put to good use. It'

I trust you and the team are all well, here is a picture of the 1979 Strada Speciale in my ride down to Bobbin Head Reserve, NSW Australia, which is about 12 miles from home. The 1st picture was taken at the entrance to the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, the route down to Bobbin Head is about 4km

Rear derailleur NOS  Campagnolo Nuovo Gran Sport ( 1980’s) Crankset NOS Campagnolo Super Record Crankset ( 1980’s)

Thanks for all your efforts with the forks. The bike is now built up and test-ridden, so I’m attaching a few photos and some text in case you'd to add something about it to your Gallery or Blog sections.