Pedal Press

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.

Henry sent us this picture of his street machine , certainly looks bling. Not a lot of detail accompanied the picture but its certainly eye catching.

We have entered Sir Chrispy Pekin Hoy into this first gruelling river race. We hope he does well. Its held annually at the Riverside , Derby River Gardens and proceeds go to charity. The event starts at 11 am and the finishes at 3 pm. The race starts at 1.30pm. The shop is going to close at 12.30 so

Mercian Professional. Mine since 1979. I put straight bars on it after some surgery on my neck. I'm all healed now, but it's nice to cruise around upright. This bike handles as smoothly now as it did when it was new. Reynolds 531, Cinelli hand-cut spear point lugs, wrap-around seat stay. (I'm also r

Hello Mercian , Here an Image of my King of Mercia in Cannes on the Boulevard de la Croisette in front of the Carlton Hotel after a great ride from Saint Tropez. Brad Pitt and John Clooney were impressed….:)

Thought you might be interested in my Mercian . I bought it in 1955 and still own it . It was bought as a kit , to avoid purchase tax and I still have the origional bill of sale . The frame number is 3855. I eventually found it on the left rear wheel lug . The model is described as an '' all purpose

Lead a group of 66 riders from Birmingham (Alabama) to Camp Smile a Mile, a therapy camp for children with cancer. Raised $62,000 for the programs. Route was 152.5 miles, with 7900 feet of climbing.

Hello All at Mercian, A big thank you once more for the stunning paintwork on my 1963 R O Harrison and as promised here are some pictures of the bike now. It will be taking part in the 100 mile Eroica Britannia this year and the pictures were taken on its inaugural ride at Carmarthen Velodrome earli

A few pictures of a recent Hetchins frame renovation.

You asked me for a couple of photos after I'd finished building the Bates you completed for me. I've also sent you a couple of shots of the Gillott frame Mercian also renovated for me.

Thank you William for the photos of your Superlight

My wife and I did the LEJOG last September with Peak Tours - fantastic company by the way.