1946 was a special year: Paul Smith was born in Nottingham, Mercian Cycles was founded in Derby. Paul was a very good cyclist in his youth and rode Mercian bikes - his fondness for Mercian has remained, and the feeling is mutual. To help celebrate our 80th anniversaries, Paul has designed two special limited edition bikes, which were launched at Selfridges in early September.
After many months of effort, and a tremendous grant to help us on our way from Erewash Council, we launched three new eBike models at the end of August.
A great crowd attended our Festival of Steel ride out in August, to help celebrate the 80th anniversary of Mercian. Many thanks to Belper Cycling Club, and Andre Toczek in particular, for helping organise the event and doing a great job on the 4 rides. And a big thankyou to all those who attended the event - we estimate approx 300 people turned up to help us mark the day, but give it a few months and the estimate will have grown to 3000!
Congratulations to Jill Scott for completing her epic 388 mile "Coming Home" challenge, raising almost £500k for Sport Relief! Mercian were proud to help.
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.
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.
Mark sent us a picture of his Strada overlooking the hills in Sydney Australia. At the time the photos was taken it was Autumn. ( not too hot we think )
We often take care of rare, old and unusual frames in the workshop for renovation, this Paris came in on behalf a customer from our oldest retail partners, Madgetts Cycles in Diss, Norfolk and was quite a memorable piece of work. This was a real labour of love, needed a lot of tlc and time to get it
A belated thank to all the guys at Mercian for my wonderful Strada Speciale frame. It was more than worth the wait! Such flawless paintwork ... I was scared to touch it! It has given me a wonderful summer of joy cycling around the quiet lanes of East Anglia.
Got this Raleigh banana respray from yourselves back to the original team colours it was in 1988.all original equipment with shimano 105 groupset.left round to my local bike shop Dave Kane in Belfast.had it all built up.it was that good.it was posted on there Facebook page.just through I would send
My Strada Speciale, built for me in 2013, just completed the 3,600km Transiberica bikepacking race with me. She was, and has always been, utterly flawless. Everyone on the race agreed that she was the most beautiful bicycle taking part.
My bike arrived about a week ago now and I wanted to write to say thanks. It really is a beautiful thing, even more so than I expected. I’ve taken it for a few short test rides so far and have never had so much fun on a bike in my life. It’s light and comfortable and feels confident on the road and
