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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.

Well done Chris on your BBC sports personality of the year award. Not forgetting the British cycling team who won team of the year also David Brailsford won coach of the year.

Here you have Phil proudly holding a Anniversary frame which Rob and himself have been working on for the past few weeks just before it goes to the shop for building into a complete bike. A little like the our Paul Smith design but to the customers own colour scheme. I will post a picture once buil

We have here a picture sent in by our good friend Michael. He lives in London and has put himself together a lovely looking bike built around one of our 60th Anniversary frames. I think this is number 7 of 60 being built . Each of these frame comes with a sterling silver head badge. Michael has so

It's the time of year when some of us are considering a frame re-spray. We do offer a collection and delivery service within the U.K which will help if your a distance from the shop of course. If you would like us to collect the Frame please call our shop who will arrange all the details. We can eve

Well xmas is coming and we are all getting ready for it here at the shop. We dug out the old christmas snow man and put it in the window which brightens up the shop no end.

Just thought you would like a look at the new brooks saddle display. We do sell a lot of Brook,s saddles and because of this Brooks sent us this display. It.s not road legal as it has no brakes but I like it.

Here we have a proper photo. Here you see Derek working on a fork crown. This was one of a whole load of photos taken by Chris Floyd the other week for a management magazine we where in . The quality of these photos are out of this world. I would like to say thank you Chris for them.

We had a email the other day which went down well with all concerned with the build of this bike . I quote a couple of paragraphs from his letter. I just wanted to say thank you and offer a picture for your gallery, to show you my frame built up. It's a thing of great beauty and I've never ridden

This picture shows a King of Mercia frame with the stainless steel S & S couplings just before it gets put together as a complete bike ( the customer has supplied most of the equipment ) . It has a slight overspray of blue with the blue head tube to match and please note the gold outline of the tra

Just a quick update this evening as I am away from the computer. If your interested we have a Campagnolo sprocket board put on eBay by Carl our eBay man. Its our old 8spd sprocket board from out our workshop. Ideal for keeping all your sprockets in one place.

Hi all and thank you Gary from London for this picture of your Vincitore special Reynolds 631 track frame ( pearl white with a pearl orange barbers pole and head tube). As you can see its a a great looking bike with some lovely equipment on it. Campag chainset , Mich hubs and Brooks saddle. Lets

First of all sorry for the delay with this update we have been extremely busy over the last week or so. Any way to get the ball rolling again we have have a few Mercian bottles at the shop which sell for £3.75 each if you fancy one please give us a call.