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.
Here for your use is a photo of my Mercian on the first shake-down ride. You sent me the frame and fork last October and I've been working on it as I find the time or get the parts in.
This is a kingfisher blue Audax 853 frame with gold lug lines and a satin finish. Drivetrain is SRAM (Campy crank
Barry popped in to see us today, not from around the corner but from Hoy in Orkney. The half way trip from Glasgow took 5 hours drive alone so the round trip has to be a total 20 hours drive. We sat him on the frame jig and took the King of Mercia complete bike order during the day with cups of tea
We have one 60th Anniversary frame left if you have been thinking of one now is the time to order . The link to our web page which has all the details here
We don't only sell Mercian frames and bikes but we also have a nice range of Moda bikes in stock from straight handle bar hybrids to full-on road bikes, and below are a couple of bikes from their range. We don't sell a huge range other bikes in our shop, we concentrate on quality over quantity. We
The above second hand frame is a 58cm King with Cantilever brake pivots and rear cable bridge with full clearance , Double lever bosses on the down tube ( cable stops ) tunnels under the shell with a chain stay stop . Brake cable stop/guides on lower left of the top tube. 1" threaded fork column an
We do not seem to get many second hand Mercian frames but recently a few have been part exchanged towards a new Mercian. The above 23" King is Reynolds 531 and has clearance for 700c wheels with mudguards. Its just been re-sprayed in silver pearl with white gothic transfers on the down tube head and
This is Thomas our new apprentice frame builder, proudly holding his first frame. A very keen cyclist who believe it or not broke his leg badly, falling off a bike, just after his interview, but he manages to hobble in every day on crutches and he's on the mend. Welcome to the team Thomas.
Here for your use is a photo of my Mercian on the first shake-down ride. You sent me the frame and fork last October and I've been working on it as I find the time or get the parts in.
