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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.

Just a quick post here . I've just joined the twitter club. So see if you can find me? I'll message you back if you send me a message.

This is a almost finished professional frame. As you can see from the picture the spear points have been welded to the shell first and then the tube will be brazed into the lug. This gives the frame strenght and stiffness around the shell. This frame was first build for our professional team we had

This poem was sent to me by Chris our biggest Mercian fan who commissioned it from Willie Carton . He very kindly gave me permission to post it here for you all to read. I,m sure you agree with me its very good indeed. By the way check out Chris flicker site there is a link on this blog.

Just thought I would show you the new Lime Green Flamboyant . We have only just got this new paint and as you can see ( hopefully) has a very bright finish. We are sure this will become a very popular choice. This renovation is on a early Mercian track frame with Nervex lugs.

I was handed this by one of our frame builders the other day and was told to try it. The name goes a long way of course but I must say it was a nice drink. Well worth keeping a eye out for in your local.

Its this time of year when you need to get your frame re-sprayed ready for the coming summer ( if we get one ) . Here you see a few thats been undercoated ready for the spray booth. Once finished they will look like new.

Because of the severe weather conditions (according to Parcel Force) our collection and deliverys are taking a little longer. There seems to be ice on the road. I would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Hi all just a quick update . We are having a few problems with the phone line. It may have something to do with the snow. The line should be fixed this evening. So please email service@merciancycles.com if you can not get through.

David was good enough to send me these pictures amongst others of his tandem. They do own dare I say it more than one of our tandems and a few solo's going by the garage pictures he sent me. The rear hub is a Rohloff which has now clocked up quite a few miles without any problem and as you can see

Snow today and it stopped me riding into work. We have not had snow like this for some time and going by the weather people its here for some time to come.

Well this book is well worth a look, I got mine through the post the other day from Waterstones and I'm very impressed. It has the Campagnolo history, from the very early years right up to the brand new 11 speed equipment. This reminded me of my trips to the Campagnolo factory. I've been lucky en