Pedal Press

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!

The Financial Times takes a closer look at the challenges facing Britain’s bicycle industry, and the story of Mercian’s revival under its new owners.

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.

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.

Rear derailleur NOS  Campagnolo Nuovo Gran Sport ( 1980’s) Crankset NOS Campagnolo Super Record Crankset ( 1980’s)

Thanks for all your efforts with the forks. The bike is now built up and test-ridden, so I’m attaching a few photos and some text in case you'd to add something about it to your Gallery or Blog sections.

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.