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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.

Hello all at Mercian, have been working on Les Bilaminated Mercian track bike and slotted it together. Thought you may like to see a couple of photos of the completed bike, as many period parts fitted as we could find, lovely bike, cheers, Vic.

Some great pictures of Alans Pro-Lugless complete with Campagnolo Chorus equipment on the pier at Brighton.

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I've been out a few times now and it rides as handsomely as it looks, it's got an agile feel to it which I like but it's comfortable too and I'm impressed how well it keeps the chatter from the road surface out. Feels a real upgrade from the Columbus tubed Condor Fratello which I've been on for the

Last Sunday I ran for the first time in this Vincitore.

Thank you Michael for the photos.

My beautiful 21 year old Audax has been providing a very comfortable platform on my turbo trainer during the lockdown period. Thank you Mercian, just looking at my bike cheers me up Alaster near Cambridge.

Thank you Adrian for sending in your pictures.

Dan sent us this email recently showing us his newly renovated Giant frame his email below :-

Here is my 1983 Mercian King of Mercia converted to 650B. Quite a beauty and also rides very nicely.

So while the lockdown continues... we do hope everyone is keeping safe and well.. we've found a couple of posts that were posted to the wrong section of the website and rather than delete them we've posted them here... While we are in lockdown why not send in your pictures and we will get them on th

As requested on Instagram, here are a few pictures of my Mercian. It's a 1980 King of Mercia which I've owned from new.