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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.

This is a Vincitore special built with Reynolds 725 tubing ( our most popular tube set ) in cream enamel with silver gothic transfers and silver lug lining. Its put together with Campagnolo Centaur equipment complete with Brooks saddle , handle bar tape and when we get them in stock the Brooks toe

Its not only new bikes we build here you can see a renovation we have just completed on a early 1980 frame. Note the lamp boss on the forks and the long rear dropouts. This has been sprayed in our very popular Ruby red flamboyant with a white head tube and seat tube panel white lug lining and transf

Just thought you would like a look at these. Marchisio sprockets are for the customer who wants a different sprocket range offered by Campagnolo or Shimano. Customers have these as a close ratio for the racing lads or a wide ratio for the touring crowd. As we know you always need the gear which is

The spray shop is very busy at the moment as you can see. We have a turn round time of about six weeks its normally about 4 weeks during the summer. These frames are mainly in etch primer ready for there first coat of paint.

Another day at the workshop today doing mainly paper work. While I was there I took this picture of a frame build with the Rohloff dropouts. This particular customer wants to be able to use a disc brake as well as you can see.

Today was a day at our workshop mainly clearing out the back office ready for a coat or two of paint. I am a bit fed up of the 1970s purple walls. The picture shows Tim's work progressing nicely on a frame which is being built with stainless steel S&S couplings. These are for commuting or for trave

Our shop is well known for our stock of Campagnolo spare parts new and old and are always being asked how many spare parts we have . Well to give you a idea this is just some of our ergo spares covering 8 , 9 , and 10 speed and soon maybe a few 11 speed parts no doubt. We must have one of the large

Todays shot is of a range of Merlin titanium frames we stock and I must say they are very nicely made. We can get any of the frames or bikes from there range we also offer a made to measure service from the company although there is a small charge for this. Please do not forget we have a vacancy at

Just thought I would show you this bike that went out today. Its a Rohloff equipped machine in a two tone leaf green pearl and racing green pearl. Complete with Brooks titanium saddle and Brooks handle bar tape. Just an after thought have you noticed how little traffic there is on the roads recently

Today was a trip to London to pick the 2 bikes up which have been photographed for a upcoming magazine. The company which did the shoot was Big Picture Studios. The photos themselves will be seen in GQ mens fashion magazine . More details to come when I am allowed to tell. When we know the dates of

A day at the workshop/office for me today doing a lot of small jobs which have mounted up and just need to be done. In the picture you can see some of the taps which are used to clean up the threads before the frames go to the shop. In the background you can just see a alloy frame which is being han

This is a photo of a small part of our clothing room which is upstairs at our shop. I have only put this on because we are amazed how many people do not know its there. We have a large stock of Campagnolo , Altura, Oakley and Specialized to name a but a few lines in stock.