Following Mercian’s 80th Anniversary Festival of Steel, we were delighted to welcome Eddie White and Cherie Pridham to our new factory.
Eddie White was a valued founding member of the Mercian-Bantel Team, riding with the team between 1968 and 1979. It was a particular pleasure to welcome Cherie, who took time out of her busy WorldTour schedule as Sports Director of UAE Team L’Imad to join Eddie for the visit.
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.
Hi Guys,Here's a few pictures of my custom Vincitore Special that I purchased in Christmas 2010. It's taken me a long time to get it built up, but I took it out today for it's maiden voyage and was really impressed. I love it. Thanks for the great job on the frame, excellent quality both in workmans
The pictures a little small Dale sent it by email with a few shots of the bike but also sent short video of the bike build.
If anyone else has a video they would like to send in please do.
We built this Reynolds 953 touring bike for a discerning customer last year and I thought you would like to have a look. Rohloff hub , S&S couplers are just a few of the very top components used on the build. Please note it also runs a Gate's belt drive with sprocket and chainring made for us by Phi
The shop will be closed over the Easter holiday on the following days
Monday 9th April CLOSED all day.
Tuesday 10th April CLOSED all day.
Wednedsay 11th April Closed all day.
Happy Easter to all.
My special thanks go to everyone at Mercian for constructing such a wonderful frame and for letting me make some minor changes, including the addition of one of the new metal headbadges, before my frame went into production. Additionally, since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, innocent bystand
Last weekend was the Bristol Bespoke bike show. The show was a great success for all the exhibitors, very hard work getting everything together for the event, but it all came together well at the show. As you no doubt know by now we won the Best Utility Bike prize. The bike above is Jane's bike and
We are showing at the above exhibition. Getting every thing ready for it is taking a while but we are on track for a nice display. Hope to see you there.
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