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.
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.
Having just collected his new Pro Lugless from us, Chris headed straight down to France with his brother for a nice little run. Ticking off the Velodyssee along the French atlantic coast he turned into northern Spain, ending up in Cape Finisterre - the 'end of the world' and the final stop for many pilgrims on the Camino. Returning back to catch a ferry from Santander, Chris covered over 1600miles and climbed an estimated 65000 feet.
Alan recently completed the 75km Eroica in Valkenburg, Holland, on his 1996 stars'n'stripes King of Mercia. Riding with a pal, they had great chat with other riders, and enjoyed the splendid food (although it didn't hit the heights of the Chianti Eroica!)
Not all snowy rides are as fun as Bob and Jen's last summer in the mountains of Norway.
Maybe now's the time to miss out some less fun winter miles, take your bike off the road and welcome the return of spring with a freshly painted frame.
My name is Sam and I live in Chesterfield in North Derbyshire. I have experimented with other frame materials but never having found anything which recreates the same level of interest and satisfaction as steel.
My K o M high up above the reservoir in Malibu Canyon in California in Spring of 1957. I had ordered it, 24 inch and finished in RAF blue, directly from Mercian in about April 1955 whilst a student at Nottingham U. and living in Risley, Derbys.
Forty years ago, Jamie Hargreaves’ dad, Phil, along with friends, embarked on an ambitious journey from Derby, England, to Derby, Australia. This doesn’t sound that impressive until you add in that he cycled the entire journey.
We are excited to announce the acquisition of Mercian Cycles, a beloved icon in the cycling community known for nearly 80 years of unparalleled craftsmanship and innovation in bicycle frame design. We have inherited an indelible legacy from all of the previous owners which we deeply respect and inte
