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.
This is Elizabeth,s, of Cincinnati Ohio's Strada Special with Campy mix group. It is a beautiful bike and will provide her with lots of great riding for years to come. Thank you very much for your fantastic craftsmanship!
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Re-open as usual Thursday 8th April
Well not every customer wants a shiny polished 953 frame. This particular customer wanted a brushed stainless look and as you can see its come out pretty good indeed. This frame will be supplied with Easton carbon forks.
As you can see its not only adults frames we re-spray. Apparently this small frame which obviously belongs to Donald has been handed down through the club to up and coming young cyclists. Donald had a bit of frame work carried out and chose his own colour with his name each side the down tube.
Well many of you have asked and here it is Sven's 953. Built to order with Reynolds oversize 953 tubing with polished stainless head lugs, crown and vertical dropouts. Sprayed in a off white and black panels ( to customers order ). A Chris King A- head set is the final finishing touch . This is trul
Two pictures today with two completely different finishes. The blue one has a satin finish. It looks good on Enamels, flamboyants and pearls. This type of finish can be applied to all our colours ( at no extra charge ). The white frame is Reynolds 953 and as you can see has highly polished head t
Something a little different today. We have been having a sort out in the office and we came across this old map. Unfortunately there is no date on it but as you can see it certainly has some history. Anyone any idea to the date of this map ?
Please find attached picture of my vincitore special track which I took last summer just after I had received it and put it together. needless to say the bike has been great, I changed to a fizik arione saddle after not really getting on with the B17 special; otherwise it is the same (despite a coup
Justine a very good customer of ours sent in this picture of ONE of her bikes. Yet another frame is slowly working its way through our workshop right now. Thanks for the picture and hope you enjoy the new frame when it arrives
The customer wanted their renovation to be pink. With some discussion we came up with the design you see here with the stars and all which we can do for a small fee on any frame. Its boxed up now and on its way to the customer who will shortly be building it up for summer rides.
