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.
Attached, a photo of my King of Mercia, purchased on 16/12/1994, and still looking great.
Cinelli lugs, fork crown, B/B, bars & stem.
Fully Campagnolo equipped, with Mavic rims & new Continental 4000 tyres. A new Campag Comp 10 triple chainset, and new Rolls Forato saddle and Fizik H/B tape.
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Hi - I'm attaching some photos of my 953 frame which I had built last year. I'm very pleased with it, its alot stiffer than my old 853 but is nearly as comfortable. I love the old Olympic decal. I've also found that Cilit Bang Stainless is great for cleaning the stays.
I am attaching a couple of photos of the Anniversary frame built up with all Campagnolo Record parts except for Japanese brakes.
Jeff has just purchased this frame from us but already thinking of a new colour scheme . We feel it certainly looks the part. Thanks for the photo's Jeff
Here is my completed 725 Audax Special in Apple Green, it's a mix of traditional British crafts man ship and Japan's engineering abilities. And what a ride! A Big thank you to the team at Mercian for the attention to detail during the fitting session and then the building and finish of this beauty.
Greetings from the USA, please see the attached photos of my new King Of Mercia, which I ordered from International Pro Bike Shop in Bellbrook Ohio back in May, and just took delivery of today. Just got back from a very short ride and I'm thrilled. The bike is my second KoM, the first I sold back in
Hello All,
I just wanted to send a photo of my finished frame, built up. The components are all Campagnolo, mainly Centaur with some Chorus and Record. I'm still fine tuning my positioning, and have only ridden it out on the road once, but so far it is great. Incredible quality, and you did an
Hello guys,
finally I' ve take time to send you a picture for your blog of my Audax Special. It' s simply great, last year we do togheter a 1000k randonnée in south of Italy and the feeling was amazing, the Reynolds 725 tubing are light and responsive. The picture is taken on the Garda' s Lake in
