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.
At Last we have what you have been waiting for, the Mercian Head badge. They retail for £48.50 +v.a.t (if applicable) available for standard and oversize head tubes. Look great and are fab quality. They weigh in at 23g if anyone wants to know. (coming soon the 1950's head badge)
Saturday 24th December ( closing early 12 noon )
Sunday 25th December Closed
Monday 26th December Closed
Tuesday 27th December Closed
Wednesday 28th December Closed
Thursday 29th December OPEN
Friday 30th December OPEN
Saturday 31st December OPEN
Sunday 1st January Closed
Monday 2nd January Closed
Ciaran at Push cycles has just purchased a new frame fitting jig. The lads there will guide you through your Mercian Frame order. They are based in London 35c Newington Green London N169PR
Additional photographs of my bike, as requested. A 2010 Vincitore in black and gold, with 14-speed Rohloff hub and Lauterwasser bars - recently reissued by Soma Fabrications. I've been delighted with the bike, whether commuting a few miles through town, or on a proper weekend spin. Indeed, as tweete
After 20 something years of wanting and 6 months working for mercian cycles I finally got my hands on a mercian frame. Built-up with some old parts I had in the bottom of my tool box and some new parts. I have been riding my mercian to and from work for 3 weeks now and I thought it was time I went o
Due to a recent twitter post I have been asked more than a few times for more pictures of this bike. If your the owner or know of the owner can you please send a few in for the blog.
Thank you
Grant
Attached is photo of my King of Mercia, (purchased new 16/12/1994) 531 Competition tubing, Cinelli lugs, fork crown & B/B, recently updated to fully Campag with triple C/S, 10sp 13/26 cassette, Mavic Open CD rims on Record hubs, Grand Prix tyres, and Royce saddle. It is as good now as when it was bu
Hi Mercian Cycles
Responding to your request for cycle pictures with a story for your blog site, this is how i came to be the greatful owner of this little gem.
This 1993 Audax was owned by a late friend's brother who lived just two miles from your shop, he gave it to his brother who in turn gif
Hy there,
this is Fabio from Arco-TN, Italy. I' m sending to you a picture of me and my Audax Special on "Roc Trevezel" during the last Paris-Brest-Paris this summer. The journey has been long and hard, but it was worth it; beautiful countryside, tipical weather, people on the streets, dark nights,
